lewm
Responses from lewm
| New AT cartridge thoughts/question In re-reading Miller Carbon's post, I see now that his idea is not really different from my experience of the ART7. | |
| New AT cartridge thoughts/question I own an Audio Technica ART7 cartridge that I purchased new. At first, I did find it to be lean or clinical sounding, although from the start it was a champ at revealing detail and inner musical voices, as well as having a very articulate bass. Ne... | |
| Stylus stuck in groove Good idea. Now if and when I can bring myself to care, I will try your method. I have no LPs that "repeat" due to LP dirt or damage. Any time that happens, the LP goes into the garbage unless cleaning it repairs the problem. When it's only a l... | |
| Telefunken vacuum tube E88CC-TK; NOS versus brand new. Guys used to buy obsolete Tektronix oscilloscopes, in order to harvest from them the Telefunken 6922s, for use in their audio systems. I suppose they are all gone by now. In my one piece of gear that uses 6922s, I have been very happy with Siemens... | |
| Stylus stuck in groove You guys must have really good eyes. On my LPs that have such glitches, I cannot recall ever having been able to see the problem with my naked eye. Nor did I bother to pursue the issue much further. It only affects a few of my favorite LPs, is usu... | |
| TONEARM DAMPING : DAMPED OR NOT ? ? USELESS ? ? WELCOMED ? ? The thing about capacitors in speaker crossovers is that they generally operate without a bias voltage across them. Thus, (1) they may take a very long time to "break in", if you believe in that sort of thing, and (2) it is not advisable to predi... | |
| Telefunken vacuum tube E88CC-TK; NOS versus brand new. Many years ago I compared several brands of 12AT7 type tubes. To my surprise, by far the best sounding was a Chinese made variant sold to me by Billington in the UK. Since Billington is now out of business, I don’t know where I would get more of t... | |
| Telefunken vacuum tube E88CC-TK; NOS versus brand new. To anyone's knowledge, are there counterfit TFKs with the diamond stamped in the glass on the bottom of the tube, or can one assume that if the diamond shape is there, we have a genuine TFK? Seems to me by now someone must have copied it, so you ... | |
| Early Faint "Phantom" Turntable/Vinyl Signal??? In this case you got the straight poop, but when it comes to the Internet, trust but verify. | |
| K&K Phono Preamp questions. If the polarity switch is on the rear panel next to the IEC input for the AC cord, then I might imagine it is for input AC polarity. However, it is also true that the balanced circuit in at least many of the K&K phono stages permits switching ... | |
| Vinyl Accessories - Skip It or Buy It! Tablejockey, I’m sure the Kirmuss does a fine job, but do you really give it high marks for”ease of use”? Just from watching the demonstration videos available on YouTube, it looks like an exercise in anal retentive behavior. | |
| K&K Phono Preamp questions. Polarity flipping 180 degrees is made possible by the balanced circuitry inside. I don't know what if anything at all it would have to do with mute or a mute switch. Some folks believe selecting the "correct" polarity makes a big audible differe... | |
| Early Faint "Phantom" Turntable/Vinyl Signal??? This is very common and very normal. Fuhgeddaboudit. | |
| TONEARM DAMPING : DAMPED OR NOT ? ? USELESS ? ? WELCOMED ? ? It is very difficult to arrive at a general principle regarding tonearm damping, because in each individual instance any two different tonearms are going to be different from one another in many other ways, besides the presence or absence of dampi... | |
| My thoughts on TT isolation methods. If the Ikea rack satisfied you, then you are clearly not obsessed enough. |