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| Best SUT For Van Den Hul Crimson Stradivarius cartridge Kanchi, Your linestage adds 17db of gain, according to the Cary website. So, with the Ypsi and the Cary linestage you have a total of 56db (39db + 17db) of gain, which is a voltage step-up of about 630X. Thus when the cartridge is putting out 0.... | |
| Best SUT For Van Den Hul Crimson Stradivarius cartridge Kanchi, I am trying to figure out what you're getting from what you already own. According to the Ypsilon website, "MC26L" sounds like the designation for one of their SUTs. And VPS100 denotes their phono stage. Since Ypsilon seems to use the d... | |
| Table and arm combos in 13k range Brock, That’s a nice story, but the OP is talking about a $13K expenditure. For that much dough, he can do a whole lot better.I only bring this up, because mijo is constantly praising the SOTA products. While I agree that they are an excellent co... | |
| Table and arm combos in 13k range Technics SL1000R (which includes tonearm) might be squeezed under your upper limit. | |
| Low output vs. high output cartridges Mijo, you can’t have it both ways. | |
| Low output vs. high output cartridges If it was all about moving mass, then MI cartridges would outperform other types, and HOMCs would have an edge on MMs. I don’t find that to be the case. Here we have yet another case of connecting a physical fact, the lower moving mass of LOMC’s v... | |
| Mono Cartridge As Mike just suggested, the OP asked specifically about mono cartridges with 1.0 mil styli. I am guessing he likes to listen to late 1940s/early 1950s mono LPs with wide grooves. For those discs, spherical is just fine. Unless you can dig up a ... | |
| Low output vs. high output cartridges I should add that my opinion is based on the MC category. Among MC cartridges I have consistently found the LO versions to be superior to HO, but higher output MI and MM cartridges also outperform HOMC types. | |
| Low output vs. high output cartridges LO is better, all other things being equal. | |
| Phono preamp worth it with MM cartridges? Chak, I hope you understand that I am agreeing with you about 30K ohms. Got that? I personally have found most often that 100K ohms sounds best with many of my MMs. This started with the Grado TLZ or XTZ which I know we both like. The TLZ sound... | |
| Phono preamp worth it with MM cartridges? Chak, To be clear, I was only questioning the "30"; you left out the "K". I now see how you meant it. Of course I do agree that for some MM cartridges 30K might work fine or even optimally, but not 30 ohms ever for any MM cartridge. I just did ... | |
| Phono preamp worth it with MM cartridges? Chak, do you really think an MM phono stage needs the option of 30 ohms loading? Or was that a typo, and you may have meant 30K or 30,000 ohms, which does make sense?Buy the very best MM phono stage you can afford, but don’t assume cost and qualit... | |
| Musical Fidelity Phono preamp loading Well, if there is no permanent load resistance; if the user has total control via changing plugs, that is actually not a bad feature, so long as one knows about it and knows enough to use the feature properly. (This is in contrast to almost every... | |
| Technics SL1400 has more audio on left channel Did you really mention that the cartridge has been in use for more than 40 years? If I understood that correctly, then obviously there can be a problem with the cartridge, and when you retire it, it should receive full military honors for having w... | |
| Miyajima MADAKE experience Thanks to labpro's post, this thread was brought to the fore once again. Vortrex, you don't say which of the woods you chose for your 3P. It would be worthwhile to know that since your experience was apparently contrary to that of some others who... |