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| Turn Table Cable Length Which Grado cartridge, and what are the components in the rest of your system? Thanks. | |
| Herron VTPH-2A or Manley Chinook mk II phonostage Corucia, You say the Herron was "measurably" superior to the Chinook. I take your assessment of the two units seriously, because you heard them both in your own system over an extended period of time, but in fact, unless you neglected to report i... | |
| Static electricity Mijo, You wrote, "According to myself and Mark Dohmann it actually improves the sound by attenuating sound before it gets to the tonearm."How would any practical dust cover attenuate airborne vibrations between the LP and the tonearm. (I presume ... | |
| 16 ohm speakers: any amp sounds better with more resolution. speaker cables less critical. speakermaster, There issome truth to your claim that 16-ohm speakers were more often the norm in the early days of hi-fi audio than they are now. And maybe the rationale did have something to do with the high-ish output impedance of the then prev... | |
| Turn Table Cable Length If you are talking about a distance between the tonearm and the phono stage of 20 feet, that is a very bad idea regardless of what type of cartridge you will use, but it is an especially bad idea for a low output moving coil cartridge. Can you fig... | |
| Allnic 1201 replacement tubes? The sockets are specially cushioned to isolate them from vibration. Is that what you mean by loose? If so, that is normal and built in to the chassis. I don’t think you can damage anything by removing and replacing a tube. | |
| TUBE BIAS, socket to me! The amplifier itself is the best tube-tester. If a tube fails to bias correctly in situ in the amplifier, it should be replaced.Unless you want to spend thousands of bucks on a separate tube tester that can actually test power tubes at their typi... | |
| TUBE BIAS, socket to me! If one wants to roll tubes, one can do so, but that is not a requirement. To me, it is a form of mental masturbation. Bias adjustment would be per the suggestion of the manufacturer. Some designs run the tubes harder than other designs (closer... | |
| Mono vinyl, how do you know if really single channel mono or if stereo recorded to mono Toward the end of the 60s and in the early 70s, stereo had taken over at least nearly completely if not totally. For many of the premier rock groups, it was then popular to record in an exaggerated stereo effect. In some cases, the apparent sourc... | |
| TUBE BIAS, socket to me! Soko, Read what I wrote. Elliot's Cayin amplifier is the only tube amplifier I ever heard of where the manufacturer actually invites the user to enter inside the chassis, under any circumstances, let alone when powered up. All other (US-made) tu... | |
| Micro Seiki DD30 Turntable "It works fine until it gets toward the end of the record, at which point it will start skipping and the arm will not advance anymore."Sounds like an open and shut case of something is restricting the travel of the tonearm at the inner grooves. ... | |
| TUBE BIAS, socket to me! In my long experience, tube amplifiers that require periodic bias adjustment typically provide both external test points (female jacks where you stick the pos and neg meter probes) and externally accessible potentiometers with which to do the bias... | |
| Strange thing happened ... Metal fatigue. | |
| Phono pre amp So vdH is making the calculation for you in recommending a tonearm with 14g effective mass. That should not be taken as a firm directive. 12 to 16g would be fine. Note that effective mass should include the weight of the headshell, the cartridg... | |
| Phono pre amp chasda, I won't contradict any of the above posts, but in my experience vdH cartridges come in wood boxes. Inside the box, on the underside of the removable cover, you will usually find hand-written specs for that particular cartridge. Those dat... |