lewm
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| Phono setting and MC/MM I agree you won’t have enough gain, most likely, but it will hurt nothing to just hook it all up and give it a try. That will let you know where are you are starting from. | |
| Russian Tube Preamp, No Return, Here I go again I am having palpitations! | |
| Russian Tube Preamp, No Return, Here I go again With no circuit upgrades, the 7C is not even “good” by today’s standards. I say this from experience, having owned and used two of them in my audio life. Lovely to look at however.Carver is or was an interesting and very smart guy. His products ar... | |
| Is It Time To Sell My Vinyl Rig? Like Mijostyn, I am wondering what procedure could be paid for by selling 200 LPs and your equipment. I also wonder why you’re asking us what to do. Do what you want and need. Good luck. | |
| Russian Tube Preamp, No Return, Here I go again Elliott, You noticed I am sure that the Luxman asking price is nearly 4X what you paid for the Russian unit. You could buy a Marantz 7C, perhaps the king of vintage tube preamplifiers, for $3000 to $6000, too. But you would be paying for the coll... | |
| `tri turntable pad eon Tri it and see. | |
| Record clamp/weight and turntable speed I wouldn't worry one second about the slightly off-center weight, but if the aftermarket mat is thicker than the original, and if you have set VTA while using the OEM mat, then the VTA will have been altered by a tiny amount. It's up to you to de... | |
| Fr24 Mijostyn, I am just curious. You wrote, "Good anti skating devices diminish force as the arm moves towards the center of the record." Why would that be "good" necessarily, since we know the skating force waxes and wanes in magnitude, as the stylu... | |
| Preamp for Herron VTPH-2A VAC, Pass, CAT, anything that uses 6SN7. Stay away from 12AU7 if used for gain. Some really good line stages may these days fall into the category of vintage, because to some degree an ordinary line stage has fallen out of fashion. A 20 to 25-year... | |
| 2019 300B tubes that are worth the money? Tonmy, FWIW, the 300B is not suited to operate well in an OTL amplifier like the Transcendent or Futterman or Atmasphere. | |
| New Herron VTPH 2A versus used Audio Research Reference 2 Phono But wasn’t the ARC reference 2 phono several cuts above the PH3SE? So is it not possible that the reference 2 might outperform the Herron ? I come from a position of not having heard either. | |
| cartridge set up I think WT, the company, still exists. From them you should be able to obtain the necessary specifications for your tonearm. From what you wrote I am not at all sure I understand its provenance. But for any pivoted tonearm there will be a recomme... | |
| Preamp for Herron VTPH-2A By the way, old school may be the first on this forum to say he prefers any other reasonably priced phono stage to the Herron. | |
| Preamp for Herron VTPH-2A In defense of the “inefficiency” of planar speakers in general, the standard method for measurement falsely reduces their apparent efficiency, because it does not account for the radiation of sound across the length and breadth of the diaphragm. T... | |
| Preamp for Herron VTPH-2A Mea culpa. Agreed that the 3A is ancient, which is why, when I saw the designation "L3A", I thought the reference was to the old linestage version of the 3A. I think there was such a thing. |