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| Manley Chinook - chronic issues tkr, Are you sure your problem was like that described by the OP? Because his problem does not at all sound as simple as a grounding problem really is. What he describes seems most likely due to a bad solder joint or a defective diode or transisto... | |
| Is there a physical and ritual connection with the analog LP? I have a love/hate relationship with the rituals associated with vinyl, but I use vinyl as my music source because that medium elicits more of the same emotions as live music, compared to any digital source I have yet to experience. Yet, objectiv... | |
| High-Output MC cartride with "MM" Phono Stage And in hindsight, I see that the question had been answered. Sorry. | |
| Manley Chinook - chronic issues Manley is a good company. The chinook is a good product that is typically very reliable. Obviously you have an occult problem somewhere in that preamplifier, and like everyone else said it is probably very minor, if and when it is properly identif... | |
| Anyone listen/own to the Yamaha GT-5000 Turntable? Thank you for your continuing surveillance of my posts. I don't know what I would do without your oversight. Not only is the new tonearm not novel to Yamaha, but it is also not novel in that the Viv Float and the 47 Labs RS-A1 tonearms, which ha... | |
| Anyone listen/own to the Yamaha GT-5000 Turntable? I have never seen it in person least of all heard one. What I don’t like about it is the fact that it is belt drive, not direct drive as were the classic Yamaha turntables after which it is designed. What I do like about it is the very novel and ... | |
| The Arm/Cartridge Matching Myth Chakster, OF COURSE, there are extreme values for compliance and effective mass that might knock the Fr out of the generally accepted range of 8 to 12 Hz. My point is that the equation shows there is a lot of room for variation, and my other point... | |
| The Arm/Cartridge Matching Myth I just want to be careful to point out that I am not even necessarily advocating breaking any rules (although I do it myself). I am pointing out that what may SEEM to be in violation of the Fr rule (range of 8 to 12Hz) may not in fact be a violat... | |
| The Arm/Cartridge Matching Myth One of the reasons why there can be wide latitude for tonearm effective mass, if the target is a resonant frequency (Fr) of between 8 and 12Hz, is the very nature of the equation used to calculate Fr, which reflects the physical laws that govern F... | |
| best phono stage under 10k I thought the major issue here was eliminating RF from the adjacent radio transmitter. I am fortunate enough that I have no such problems, living in the industry-less Washington DC area; there are some huge radio and TV station towers in town, bu... | |
| best phono stage under 10k Tubes are no more susceptible to RFI than solid state. In fact, to the degree that SS components may operate across a very wide bandwidth, up into the hundreds of thousands of Hz, some SS devices might be worse than a similar tube device. Immuni... | |
| High-Output MC cartride with "MM" Phono Stage To answer your actual question, no, there is no reason not to use a high output MC cartridge to drive a MM phono stage, providing the gain is adequate for the cartridge. And as you mentioned, of course you need to consider the load resistance and ... | |
| Manley Chinook Depends upon the output of your cartridge and the available gain settings on your Chinook. Also, are you using the Chinook with a separate linestage or as a full function preamp? If the latter, then you are getting all your gain from the phono sec... | |
| Curious about the difference in what I’d hear on different tonearms Your specific question was really very narrow. You really needed responses only from persons who have owned and used the rega 303, 808, and 2000 tonearms, if I understand your post correctly. Which is why I did not respond, except to Mijo on his p... | |
| Fidelity Research FR-54 Tonearm. ANTI-SKATE??? Yes the skating force is due to friction between stylus and vinyl groove.It therefore stands to reason that the size of the contact patch afforded by different stylus shapes would affect friction and therefore affect the skating force and therefor... |