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| 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. | |
| KAB RF-1 subsonic filter It should go between your preamplifier or linestage and the amplifier(s). I took a quick look at a photo on-line. Looks like you have a pair of female RCA inputs at one end and another pair of RCA jacks for output, at the other end. Unfortunate... | |
| LYRA DELOS CARTRIDGE TOO BRIGHT, THIN AND SHRILL SOUNDING Jeff, Tube phono stages per se do not "roll off" highs. Perhaps a tube phono stage may have an audio bandwidth out to 100kHz. Whereas a solid state equivalent might go out even farther, but you are not going to hear that particular difference. ... | |
| Phono cartridge torque wrench A 4-foot torque lever should be fine for cartridge screws, I would think. Get a friend to help you tug on it. | |
| Channel D Lino C vs. Sutherland Little Loco Perhaps my memory if faulty, but I found one or two on Hi-Fi Shark for about $1500, but without Humpty. | |
| Channel D Lino C vs. Sutherland Little Loco Chakster. 4712 is no longer for sale. Not too hard to find on the second-hand market, if one is patient. Not cheap either, once you add Humpties. | |
| Turntable Resonance Fix I started looking at the Townshend Pods, too. Problem is cost, not much less than a good used Minus K shelf, for a Pod suitable in size and weight bearing capacity to suit one of my heavy turntables (typically 60 lbs and up). | |
| Turntable Resonance Fix If I understand you correctly, your experiments suggest the resonance comes from the bearing but the successful addition of the springs leads you to propose that to achieve its original magnitude the resonant energy must be traveling into the shel... | |
| Channel D Lino C vs. Sutherland Little Loco Saburo, thank you for your comments on the 47 Labs, BMC, and Lino current driven phono stages. Can we assume your opinions of one vs the others are based on listening to each on your own system? After doing my homework I had concluded that the BMC... | |
| Best vintage DD turntables from the 70's and 80's? As good as belt drivel. | |
| Looking for some help with my TT journey.. Records are looping.. Check the routing of the tonearm wires coming from the horizontal arm wand into the pivot area where they have to make a 90° turn and go down through the vertical shaft of the tonearm. Often, those wires can get hung up in the pivot area and cause... | |
| LYRA DELOS CARTRIDGE TOO BRIGHT, THIN AND SHRILL SOUNDING Before you give up on this cartridge, unless you already have given up on it, I recommend that you send it to SoundSmith or any retipper who offers an inspection service. As someone else said, these devices are made by humans, and it is quite poss... | |
| Sota or Technics Mijostyn, Do you have formal training in electronics or are you self-taught so as to have attained a high level of knowledge about electronics? (Those are two equally valid ways of getting there.) Because if you don't, and at least one of our pr... | |
| Channel D Lino C vs. Sutherland Little Loco The 47 Labs phono cube is very interesting, as current-drive phono stages go, but sadly it is out of production for at least a year or more. What makes it interesting is that, although many manufacturers claim that their current mode phono stage h... |