lewm
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| Russian Tube Preamp, No Return, Here I go again Why do you wish for 12AU, T, or X7s? 6SN7s and 12AU7s don't have sufficient gain for a phono input tube but could be used elsewhere in circuit, I suppose. The Russian triodes tend to be re-makes of older very high transconductance triodes, like 56... | |
| Audible wow on Well Tempered TT Justmetoo, You wrote, "slightly out of centre LPs are 'pulling' the stylus back and forth while negotiating the outer grooves, clearly visible as it happens." I don't know why or how the shape of the stylus tip would make that phenomenon more or... | |
| Audible wow on Well Tempered TT Does the platter exhibit any run out? If you get down at eye level and view the platter surface on a 90° angle can you perceive the platter surface undulating? Those might be signs that the little plastic buttons inside the bearing well that suppo... | |
| Vinyl headache from hell!!! I must be losing my mind. Scar, you say you heard the same static-like distortions on the same LPs at your friends house using his completely different system as what you are hearing on your own system. For me, this would exonerate your turntable/... | |
| Russian Tube Preamp, No Return, Here I go again What’s done is done, and I wish you the best of luck. But for $400 or $500 there is a lot of good vintage equipment that you can buy right here in the USA with known brand names and known quality. I am just saying. Not unlike the stuff you already... | |
| Question on VTF (What should i adjust it to?) Mijo, We don't disagree, but I was not referring to involuntary reflex arcs or the manifestations of mental illness. I mean, when your wife asks you, "Does this dress make me look fat?", you have to wonder why she thinks it might. I was really w... | |
| The end of LP collecting???? This thread is now 16 years old, and I alone have purchased several hundred mint condition used LPs during the past 16 years, to add to my now 3000 LP collection . I haven’t paid more than $12-$15 for any of them. Well, maybe I paid as much as $20... | |
| Question on VTF (What should i adjust it to?) Funny how "low" VTF gives a "lighter" presentation, while "high" VTF (within the recommended range) gives a "heavier" presentation. And yet some people will argue there is no such thing as subconscious bias. No insult attended toward you, noroma... | |
| Do you let the turntable spin when putting down record and attach the clamp. Since for a DD turntable, there is no momentary sound quality degradation associated with operating the on/off switch, I do off my DD turntables between LPs. For any of the ones I own, they are back up to speed in seconds after re-start. I use a S... | |
| Question on VTF (What should i adjust it to?) If you hear mistracking on transients or complex musical passages, then tick up the VTF about a tenth of a gram. Otherwise, what compels you to worry about it? Also, what tool are you using to set VTF? If you use the classic Shure SFG, it is no... | |
| Micro Seiki MA-505 variants - any oracles around? totem, Got some references? Thx. | |
| Back To Static! Mijo, what happens with the label-less LP? | |
| Micro Seiki MA-505 variants - any oracles around? Now that this thread has been revived, I wonder whether anyone has knowledge of the origin of the L07J tonearm that was supplied with the Kenwood L07D turntable. The L07J has a look to it that has always reminded me of the micro seiki MAX tonearms... | |
| Pivot to Spindle distance Lofgren and Baerwald published their papers on tonearm alignment in around 1940, when the only records were made of something other than vinyl and all were mono 78s. And most people still owned wind-up Victrolas with megaphone speakers. | |
| Pivot to Spindle distance Elliot, In the end, it's effective length that counts, along with headshell offset angle. Since effective length is the sum of P2S + overhang, since different designs feature different headshell offset angles, and since there are at least 3 diffe... |