lewm
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| Looking for a 2-channel high end volume control And Khozmo, which is excellent. | |
| Looking for a 2-channel high end volume control I never heard of Cirrus, but there is DACT, Goldpoint, Elma, Shallco, Noble, Penny and Giles, and etc, all of which make excellent two-channel balanced attenuators in your choice of impedance. (I am sure I left out a few other quality brand names.... | |
| Who needs a Diamond Cantilever...? 💍 Raul, the accepted rationale for why low output moving coil cartridges sound better than high output moving coil cartridges has to do with the moving of the coil itself. In other words lower effective mass. However, that same reasoning does not ap... | |
| Life After Technics SL1200 Mk5 Another factor in the capacitance issue is the nature of the input stage of your phono section. Vacuum tubes and transistors have a characteristic input capacitance that is added to the capacitance seen by the cartridge. For example one of the mos... | |
| Who needs a Diamond Cantilever...? 💍 +1 for chakster. | |
| Is my anti-skating too strong. Yeah, please do enlighten the rest of us. I am sure that anyone with a moniker that incorporates the word "skating", sans vowels and a "g", is expert. | |
| Technics SL1000 MK3 (SP10 MK3) performance/value VS modern turntables? In Miami, you can get the best rum from Cuba, easily.I view JP as something of a genius with direct drive. He fixed my TT101 after several very smart and competent persons had tried and failed over a period of 2 years. And I am pretty sure that mi... | |
| Life After Technics SL1200 Mk5 What is it that your Wife does not Accept? The mods under discussion would not even be visually detectable even by most audiophiles. | |
| Who needs a Diamond Cantilever...? 💍 Short cantilever means the arc traversed by the stylus in response to the groove is shorter than with a longer cantilever, which means the net coil or magnet velocity is reduced for a given deflection of the stylus, which means a proportionate red... | |
| LYRA DELOS CARTRIDGE TOO BRIGHT, THIN AND SHRILL SOUNDING It IS possible that Jeff has been out in the Las Vegas heat for far too long, thus frying his brain and making him cranky. Jeff, apologize to Atmasphere. He is too good for you, and you don't know what you are talking about if you criticize his ... | |
| Step up transformer or upgrade phono preamp? I did a little homework, reluctantly. Your phono stage provides 40db of gain in MM mode and 60db of gain in MC mode. You would need to use the MM inputs with an external SUT. That means you would need a SUT with a turns ratio of 1:10, just to ge... | |
| Step up transformer or upgrade phono preamp? Let me guess what is going on here. In actual listening, you have no problem with gain. Isn’t that correct? But apparently you looked at some chart or read someone else’s opinion and decided that you must need more gain, that that must be the prob... | |
| LYRA DELOS CARTRIDGE TOO BRIGHT, THIN AND SHRILL SOUNDING Can we keep the old, boring, and endless MC vs MM/MI debate out of this thread, 3 easy?There does seem to be a consensus already that the OP’s experience with the Delos cartridge is very atypical and that he might want to consider having the cartr... | |
| Step up transformer or upgrade phono preamp? You guys are profligate spenders of other people’s money. Assume the OP likes his cartridge. He also says his problem is not lack of gain. He’s looking for a a phono stage upgrade. Trot out the usual suspects that have sufficient gain for his car... | |
| Step up transformer or upgrade phono preamp? Ironically, the Allnic 1202 comes by its high gain via a complex built-in SUT system. Not that there's anything wrong with that but it does beg the question of recommending a high gain phono stage. |