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| What high end cartridge matches best with the Wheaton Triplanar tonearm? It’s a medium mass tonearm so you might seek medium compliance cartridges to go with it. In my 20-year experience with the Triplanar the only class of cartridges that are not max’d out by the TP are some of the very lowest compliance ones, and in ... | |
| KAB RF-1 subsonic filter Thank you for doing the necessary research, imhififan. I don’t doubt that you’re correct. What you write makes perfect sense in the case where one owns a separate phono and linestage, especially since it comes from KAB. I hope the OP reads your co... | |
| Technics or Kuzma turntable. Not that there's anything wrong with your obsession over big pulsating magnetic fields, Mijo. Not at all. | |
| I want to ask about deutsche grammophon's new lp vinyl. Yes, you could like DG or lump DG back then. No one else had the top orchestras. | |
| Technics or Kuzma turntable. Which Brinkmann? They make both types. | |
| Technics or Kuzma turntable. Dover is unable to express an opinion of his own without throwing in a gratuitous insult along with it. The OP has opened up a pre-existing can of worms. The vinyl world is divided into those who advocate direct drive turntables and those who pref... | |
| Do small preamp tubes 12ax7 need to be matched? 12AU7s are to be avoided. In my experience, any other equivalent tube (12BH7, 6CG7, 6FQ7, even 6SN7 if you can change the socket) will sound superior to a 12AU7, in a gain topology. This does not apply to cathode follower or phase splitter use (... | |
| I want to ask about deutsche grammophon's new lp vinyl. I’ve got quite a few OEM DG LPs that I bought new in the 70s. All analog, and many of them could make your ears bleed. | |
| What is it about spinning vinyl? Maybe you should take up smoking until your Cosmos arrives. Now there’s a habit former. | |
| Do small preamp tubes 12ax7 need to be matched? It might be that in the case Chakster cites, the tube is used as a cathode follower. Or a phase splitter. | |
| Audio Technica AT 666 vacuum disc Thanks, Raul. I knew you had experience with those things. | |
| Do small preamp tubes 12ax7 need to be matched? You can "use" a 12AT7 to replace a 12AX7, in that the pin connections of the two tube types are identical, but that would be far from ideal. The 12AT7 has less gain, a lower plate resistance, and a higher transconductance compared to a 12AX7. In... | |
| Audio Technica AT 666 vacuum disc I think they were pretty good when on the market. But now they’re old and prone to lose vacuum due to air leaks in the system. Given your observations I’d worry about that. If you could localize the leak, you may be able to effect a repair. | |
| Assistance Identifying an Ikeda Cartridge Neon, it seems you have anxiety about repairing a cartridge that at the moment sounds “glorious”. Unless something has changed since you initiated this thread. If not, why not just relax and enjoy?Factoid: two years ago while cartridge shopping in... | |
| Up grade to a new turntable Who said VTA adjustment was unimportant or makes no significant difference?Mijo, you’re thinking of SRA, not VTA, when you mentioned 92 degrees. I’m sure that was just a mental typo. Me, I never have even tried to visualize SRA. I just set VTA so ... |