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| 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. | |
| Anyone tried the Ortofon Concorde century Cartridge? What's next to argue about? If I were to hazard a guess, this post would be deleted. Anyway, Chakster's woofer is bigger than my woofer.Quite apart from the arguments about who is more expert and who has nicer stuff or bigger woofers, I can hone... | |
| Has anything changed with Grado cartridge re-tipping? No more Needle Doctor.... Meantime, you probably don’t really “need” to service or upgrade your present Grado. But we all know how that goes. | |
| Direct Drive vs. Idler Drive vs. Belt drive The Saskia is driven from a very complex motor controller that probably synthesizes the AC supplied to the motor, designed and built by Mark Kelly for the Saskia. Mark probably also had a hand in selecting the type of motor (AC synchronous, etc) t... | |
| Best SUT For Van Den Hul Crimson Stradivarius cartridge Kanchi, I don’t know why this is some sort of revelation. Even you in your opening post suggested that the MC26 might be a bad match for your new cartridge. I’m glad Dave and fsonic joined in to nudge you into proving it for yourself. The pathway ... | |
| Teach me about cartridge 'retipping' Chak, I am sure you know the phrase “in my opinion “ in English. You should consider using it more often. | |
| Teach me about cartridge 'retipping' This subject has been done so many times it is now flat as a pancake. There are undeniable facts: If you have an original vintage cartridge, the suspension is old. That per se may affect compliance and sound quality. If it is NOS (never ever be... | |
| Problem with phono stage emilm, Do you mean to say that after all that, you found you could cure your problem by changing the physical location of the Black Cube? I hope that simple solution continues to please you. In the meantime, I don't think the discussion was a wa... | |
| Kuzma 4 Point Tonearm In fairness to Graham, most Graham-lovers have already noted that the 2.2, while certainly "good", was not in the same league as any of the later models. Did you try any of those? They would be more on a par with the Conqueror. (I do not own a G... | |
| Best SUT For Van Den Hul Crimson Stradivarius cartridge I wonder whether the "balanced" outputs or inputs on the Cary gear are just XLR inputs that feed single-ended circuitry. (I don't know this for a fact, but Cary is not known for balanced circuits. On the other hand, I am no expert on the current... | |
| Best SUT For Van Den Hul Crimson Stradivarius cartridge Raul, You make a good point that the Cary can give 24db of gain if connected in balanced mode. I guess you may be suggesting that the Cary could drive the amplifiers in balanced mode. That is a good idea if the amplifiers have a balanced input c... |