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| 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... | |
| Musical Fidelity Phono preamp loading I hope you are correct, Chak. That was my thought as well. It would seem that with no plug installed, there is no load resistance. In other words, there is no permanently installed load resistor at all between the gate and ground of the input t... | |
| VPI Classic setup tools I have read elsewhere that the VPI alignment tools made for their own tonearms are error prone. This is not first hand information coming from me. Check threads on Vinyl Asylum.I don't like the Turntable Basics protractor (sadly, I own two of the... | |
| Another review of a tweaked Denon DL-103R ??? Oh no! Boring? Surely not! Please read it! After the fact, I realized your post could be taken to be a comment on the Zu version. Sorry. | |
| Phono pre for Technics SL-1000R (Esoteric E-02?) A DIN connection from the base of the tonearm is no obstacle to a balanced input at the phono stage. | |
| Phono pre for Technics SL-1000R (Esoteric E-02?) Since the output from the cartridge can be treated as balanced, why not just put XLR connectors on the ends of your phono cables? (You do need to use cables that provide two wires for the audio signal and a third wire for ground or if no third wi... | |
| Phono pre for Technics SL-1000R (Esoteric E-02?) I bought the MA240s in "kit" form from Ralph back in the late 90s. My pair were among the last ones he made, and I wanted to assemble the circuit such that each 6C33C could be separately biased, which required 3 separate driver tubes, one for eac... |