lewm
Responses from lewm
| 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 ... | |
| The Lifespan of an LP? Early CDs were so bad to begin with that I wonder how one could tell if they were lately deteriorating, except by visible criteria. | |
| Help me understand compliance! Dave, I was using my Acutex LPM320 (C = 42) in an FR64S, albeit with a lightweight headshell. FR64S has M = 35 with its OEM headshell. My headshell probably knocked 10g off that. But add back 6g for weight of the cartridge plus screws, for a cal... | |
| My new to me Herron VTPH-2A - First impressions .Apologies. I did not see where you mentioned wanting a bit more gain. So go for it. I have no particular passion for passive preamplifiers by which of course I mean a buffer stage. | |
| Phoenix Eagle Versions? Those old idler drive motors as found in the Garrard and the Lenco are very in efficient, and I would not try to drive the Lenco motor anyway with anything less than the 25 W of the final version of the eagle. I don’t even think the Garrard motor ... | |
| Phoenix Eagle Versions? Yes, you are right that the falcon was 5 W not 15W. My bad, and thank you for correcting me. It was actually bugging me in the back of my mind that the falcon was 5 W, but I let it slide. | |
| My new to me Herron VTPH-2A - First impressions We don’t disagree one iota. The only issue is I misunderstood what you meant when you used the term passive preamplifier. Many people, myself included, would take that to mean a unit that has nothing in it but a volume control that can be implemen... | |
| Electrovoice Duchess IV in California Because I asked how it worked out when you inserted your new Lpad where there was previously no Lpad but instead a complex 5-way circuit ( based on my memory of the schematic) to affect treble balance. I certainly don’t “prefer” one or the other, ... | |
| Turntable matching to MC or MM cart. Mijo, What I was trying to say is that there is more to matching cartridges with tonearms than just concern about compliance and effective mass, and therefore the resonant frequency calculation. I have found that some cartridges just come more al... | |
| Electrovoice Duchess IV in California I'm confused, but if you're happy, I'm happy. | |
| Help me understand compliance! In Korf’s #5, too low a compliance for a given effective mass is the same condition as #6, too high an effective mass for a given compliance, etc, yet he posits very different outcomes in #5 vs #6. Same for the converse conditions he describes. | |
| My new to me Herron VTPH-2A - First impressions If it is really "passive", then one must take into consideration the output impedance of the driving stage and the input impedance of the driven stage. In my own mind, "passive" means no active devices in the circuit. However, since it comes from ... | |
| Turntable matching to MC or MM cart. There is no need whatsoever to match turntable and cartridge. Matching tonearms and cartridges is worth doing and requires experimentation, which is why some of us crazies own so many tonearms. Where the tonearm(s) use a detachable headshell, hav... |