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| Yamamoto HSA-01 headshell/head amp No it did not upset me, and I apologize for any sarcasm. I now see how you might have been confused, because the SPU cartridges are built into a headshell, whereas the Yamamoto headshell only has a gain stage built into it. You have to install you... | |
| You can't afford a Lambo Veneno, so get this.. I’ll take the Miura over the Veneno. | |
| Yamamoto HSA-01 headshell/head amp Stereo, you ask what you are missing. What have I written that has anything to do with an SPU, which cartridges are an Ortofon product? | |
| Do I Need A SUT To the best of my knowledge, the Stellar phono stage has more than adequate gain for your Ortofon Quintet (Stellar offers 44 to 56db gain via MM inputs; 60 to 72db gain via MC inputs). Furthermore the LTA linestage adds additional gain to the sign... | |
| Yamamoto HSA-01 headshell/head amp If you say so. But I personally would not call flat from 10Hz to 100kHz "limited". If you use -3db limits, then perhaps the bandwidth is much wider. | |
| Would you still pay $10k or more for a turntable not full analog front end these days ? I don't understand the controversy. Once the stream is picked up by the end device, it still has to traverse the output stage of the streamer in the home system. There is where one streamer can sound better than or surely different from another s... | |
| Yamamoto HSA-01 headshell/head amp My rationale for giving the HSA-01 a go in my system is purely to see how it works with the Ortofon MC2000, which puts out only 0.05mV at standard velocity. So far, the MC2000 works well with a head amp built for me by Dave Slagle, driving my much... | |
| Transfiguration Phoenix S cartridge - impedance loading recommendation? If the internal resistance of the Transfig is 2 ohms, not 1 ohm, you might be slightly better off setting the input impedance of the Accuphase to any number above 10 ohms. This is only because you want ideally the input Z to be at least 10X higher... | |
| Yamamoto HSA-01 headshell/head amp Dear Raul, you are an amazing historian of this hobby. I personally do not recall any similar product, but if you say it existed, I believe you. However, I would think that a modern iteration of the product would likely be superior to anything tha... | |
| New preamp or up grade my cartridge and or phono amp? These days, what we call a preamplifier is a linestage with a bunch of selectable inputs and optionally a balance, phase, or mono control. The linestage usually adds only a little gain to its input signal, which emanates from a phono stage, CDP, o... | |
| Yamamoto HSA-01 headshell/head amp Frequency response said to be 10-100kHz. It’s just a tiny gain stage. Within any high gain MC phono stage there is likely a single similar device adding gain at the input. So they’ve in effect surgically removed it and mounted it in the headshell ... | |
| Benz micro glider cartridge loading advice needed. If you read my last post carefully, you will see that on of my points is that although you may swap speaker leads, etc, to create a situation where the phase of the output signal from your preamplifier is the same as the phase of the input, that a... | |
| Benz micro glider cartridge loading advice needed. Here’s a way to think of it. No one is “using” phase inversion. It’s simply a fact that some gain topologies invert the phase of the incoming signal, and some don’t. Designers choose a gain topology based on their personal beliefs about how to rea... | |
| MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY? Theophole, is the Epoch II LZ9S a modern, current product? I own an NOS Stanton 981LZS and an NOS CS100, but I’ve never heard of “Epoch”. Thx. | |
| Benz micro glider cartridge loading advice needed. Your last bit about instruments vs vocals being out of phase with each other in a given track is something I didn’t dare mention for fear of scaring the OP. A good reason to just pick a polarity and live with it unless one has a preamp with a phas... |