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| 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. | |
| Preamp for Herron VTPH-2A Which would reduce the value from that of the original 3A, which as you know had a built-in phono that was in some special versions said to have been designed by John Curl. My best audio friend owned one of those latter for many years. Neither h... | |
| Preamp for Herron VTPH-2A Modulus 3A is really still worth $2K? I am surprised. | |
| Brand new Technics SL-1210GR platter wobble ... disappointed! I don't see how anyone, no matter how unconcerned about audiophilia, could ignore a wobbling platter on a $1500 to $2K turntable. But on the other hand, one should never be surprised at human nature. | |
| Preamp for Herron VTPH-2A OK, so... I allowed for that. | |
| The Lifespan of an LP? How about "Auricle of Audiogon"? | |
| Preamp for Herron VTPH-2A With all due respect to some other responders, some of the suggestions for a linestage for someone with a $3K budget, assuming you are willing to spend every bit of that amount, are from outer space, in the sense that you can do so much better for... | |
| SoundSmith cartridges how good? To the one guy who felt short changed by Peter in the course of a telephone conversation, it would help us to understand your angst if you would say what the subject was and what was your question. Because in general, there is absolutely no other ... |