lewm
Responses from lewm
| Measuring TT Speed Mijostyn, With much respect, especially as I have never used the particular application you recommend, RPM, cell phones are notoriously inaccurate for measuring TT speed. If the strobe is wavering back and forth, it means something. Sometimes tha... | |
| Solid State Phono Preamp Suggestions $3k-$4k 220 ohms (balanced) into 10K ohms should be absolutely no problem. Why do you think it might be? Who recommended 1:100 ratio? Typical recommendation is 1:10, minimum. Also, are you taking into account the input impedance of the Bryston in bala... | |
| The Mutech RM Kanda Hyabusa Thanks for your informative response. | |
| Review: Sempersonus TE-2 Idler-Type Turntable System (TW Raven 12/Charisma Signature One) From what I read elsewhere, the Sakura Mat is essentially a re-make of the now defunct Boston Audio Mat2, which is a good thing. I don't "love" any turntable mat, but I do "like" the Mat2 very much. | |
| Phono preamp suggestions My bad. iFi iPhono3 now costs $900, but still within your budget. (The previous model, the iPhono2 was priced at $500.) I just re-read Fremer's review of the 3. He gave it a rave. | |
| Phono preamp suggestions There are several phono stages in the price range you want that have received excellent reviews by Mike Fremer. You might check out his blog on the subject. The Graham Slee units were all the rage several years ago, but I think there is a lot of... | |
| The Mutech RM Kanda Hyabusa Since this is your thread, I guess it's OK to go off-topic. Do you mean to say the Lino C permits RIAA correction in the digital domain? Does it have a digital RIAA built in? That would involve, of course, ADA conversions, which I don't fancy m... | |
| Ortofon A95 Start with the compliance of the cartridge at 10Hz and work backward using the formula for resonant frequency that is available on-line. You cannot assume that you are getting an exact result for your own system, from the formula, but it will cer... | |
| The Mutech RM Kanda Hyabusa Which current drive phono stage do you plan to buy?I am hardly in a position to argue you should by a Terminator tonearm. I decided long ago that no matter how great linear tracking tonearms might be, I don't want to bother with the pumps, filter... | |
| TONEARM DAMPING : DAMPED OR NOT ? ? USELESS ? ? WELCOMED ? ? Raul, I agree to stay away from this thread but of course I have one long thing left to say. You wrote, "Your post change nothing about that cartridge/tonearm combination with a resonance frequency at 4hz and everything surrounded this 4hz.That ... | |
| The Mutech RM Kanda Hyabusa Michael Fremer is a perspicacious listener and good reporter, but on technical terms, he is often weak. In the case where he criticized at least one linear tracker for high lateral effective mass, I believe he was parroting some other guru. You ... | |
| TONEARM DAMPING : DAMPED OR NOT ? ? USELESS ? ? WELCOMED ? ? Raul, Quoting me without naming me is just as annoying to me as are your direct insults. I fully approve of properly done damping of tonearms. I think it can be way overdone, as with the Well Tempered tonearms at least the ones that pre-date the... | |
| The Mutech RM Kanda Hyabusa Mijostyn, Your indictment of the Trans-Fi tonearm would seem to be an indictment also of nearly every linear tracking tonearm, since they all have very high horizontal effective mass as compared to their vertical effective mass. And yet there are... | |
| The Mutech RM Kanda Hyabusa "<10 ohms", makes more sense to me, especially if input Z is <1 ohm. You'd be surprised to find that most of the phono stages that claim current drive operation actually have much higher input Z, which means they cannot really operate fully... | |
| The Mutech RM Kanda Hyabusa What they say suggests that the input impedance of the Channel D L20 (odd name for a very expensive phono stage) must be less than 25 ohms, but to work well iin current mode with cartridges like the Mustek or the Haniwa would require a phono input... |