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| Any success with an indoor FM antenna? Indoor antennae are all pretty much the same in my suburban experience, you do need “something “, but costly ones were not much better than cheap ones. That’s for where I live and can’t be a general rule. | |
| Has anyone tried Brass cartridge mounting screws? Crepes!how much torque do you guys use?this isn’t NASCAR.Which is to say I’ve used brass, titanium, stainless, or plastic screws and never stripped or galled any of them. | |
| Has anyone tried Brass cartridge mounting screws? Did I necessarily recommend titanium screws? I didn't think I did.However, I have used them without any gall. | |
| Has anyone tried Brass cartridge mounting screws? Acoustic Sounds recommend titanium screws, and you can buy a set that includes different lengths of screws, on eBay for a nominal sum. Do I necessarily believe that titanium (or brass) screws can turn a cartridge/headshell sow's ear into a silk p... | |
| Cartridge loading Chakster, I am experimenting with a device made by Intact Audio. It's a prototype, one-off, not in production. It's "based on a Nelson Pass I/V converter for current output DACs", according to Intact Audio. It is not a phono stage per se; it is... | |
| Victor UA-7082 Arm, Rubber Washer at Rear Counterweight Tube: Sag/Repair/Fitting Damage. The photos from "leforum" are the best illustration of what I saw when I took my 7045 apart. Note the brass-colored rod that ends in a "nailhead" shaped flange. That nailhead would not dissociate itself from its hole in the pillar, which is need... | |
| Cartridge loading Chak, Is THIS what you have?https://audiocubes.com/products/47-laboratory-4712-phonocube | |
| Cartridge loading Hey Dave (Intactaudio), .001 ohms is still not zero ohms. I'm just sayin'...But I'm also impressed. That unit can do the purest "current gain" of any I know about so far.And, since Chakster can move at light speed, rules fall apart.Raul, I share... | |
| Cartridge loading Raul, I have no idea what you are trying to say. Please clarify. Thanks.From the one sentence I think I do understand, how can one subtract the effect of the load resistance when the entire question revolves around the value of the load resistanc... | |
| What's Worth More on the Open Market - Your Records or Your Audio Gear For those who asked questions about my friend’s 2000 LP collection that he sold for $20,000, I am really not intimately aware of the general nature of the records he collected. I can only say that he was not shy about buying expensive re-issues, ... | |
| Cartridge loading By the way, I don't think cost is a factor in achieving the lowest possible phono input impedance, if that is the primary goal ahead of performance. I also see that I earlier already suggested that the BMC MCCI affords a 4-ohm impedance. I am not... | |
| Cartridge loading Saying that a (working) phono stage has zero input impedance is similar to claiming to travel at the speed of light or to live forever. It’s a physical limit that one can only approach but never reach, if one actually wants to hear music come out ... | |
| Help! gnaudio, Did you do the swapping necessary to prove the problem is in the EAR? I guess you did. | |
| Victor UA-7082 Arm, Rubber Washer at Rear Counterweight Tube: Sag/Repair/Fitting Damage. Totem, Many more modern tonearms also use some method or other to decouple the counter-weight from the pivot. The idea is a good one, from an engineering standpoint. Fidelity Research FR64S and 66S have this feature, among tonearms of a similar v... | |
| Cartridge loading I don't accuse anyone of lying, except a certain President of the USA on some occasions. But manufacturers are sometimes given to hyperbole in their advertising copy, and too, they are sometimes inclined to treat their potential customers as ignor... |