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| Where to Connect a Phono Preamplifier into a Line Stage We’re not necessarily ahead; we’re just old enough to remember. It’s a mixed blessing. | |
| Where to Connect a Phono Preamplifier into a Line Stage Ok. I can’t resist entering this discussion for no good reason: many linestages have an OUTPUT (not an input) usually labeled “Tape Out” which completely bypasses the volume control and any gain stage that follows it. So you can directly monitor t... | |
| Ok guys Mijo, where is your turntable situated with respect to your speakers? In my opinion the best way to cure acoustic feedback, which is what you seem to be talking about, is by careful placement of the turntable in your listening room. And other obvi... | |
| verdier Platine or Nottingham Analogue hyperspace These days you might not want to convert to DC. You might instead want to add an AC motor controller a la Phoenix Engineering, now SOTA Eclipse. In 2007, similar products were not available. | |
| VTF gauge Similarly to what Nandric reports, about 70% of shoppers in Japanese shopping centers in Tokyo are Chinese, based on my observations. Ironically, they are primarily buying clothing made in China. I’ve asked several Chinese people about this phenom... | |
| VTF gauge Following in to Mijo, I would say that after you’ve set VTA, then you set VTF with the weigh pan set at the level of the surface of an LP. That’s in the best case. | |
| VTF gauge Eking, I wouldn’t worry about a few thousandths of a gram. Ideally it shouldn’t matter where you make the measurements. But I wouldn’t blame your scale for the tiny deviation. | |
| VTF gauge Jeez, Chak. I’ve been using the DS3 for 2 years, still on its original AAA batteries. So indeed yours must have been defective. | |
| VTF gauge Chak, I just looked it up out of my own curiosity and because I could have bought either one last time I was in Tokyo. So there must have been a reason I chose the DS3.DS3 sensitivity .01gDS1 sensitivity 0.1gDS3 more sensitive. | |
| VTF gauge If Chak says so, DS1 must be superior to DS3. 1.6g measured by the DS1 must sound better than 1.6g measured by my DS3. Mea culpa.Mijo, most of the better digital scales come with one or more test weights included. I’ve never seen an error greater ... | |
| VTF gauge Harold, I don’t know what to tell you as regards your experience with the DS3. Your story sounds like a case of magnetic attraction between MC cartridge magnets and the weigh pan of the DS3. Ive tested mine for that problem, and it passes. Otherwi... | |
| Turntable resonance normal? To paraphrase an ancient borscht belt comic’s punch line, so don’t tap it. | |
| VTF gauge Although I paid much more for my Ortofon DS 3, too blue, I am sure you are fine with the Riverstone. Good for you. I bought the Ortofon when I was in Tokyo last spring, and I felt I needed to buy “something” so I could say to myself I got a barg... | |
| VTF gauge By the way, the Shure SFG is among those scales that are faintly magnetic. I own two of them and both misbehave with LOMC cartridges. | |
| VTF gauge The Shure SFG was for decades all we had available. In that regard, surely it is an audio classic. You may want to put it in some sort of Hall of Fame. That would be OK with me. However, now we have inexpensive digital stylus force gauges that are... |