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| Turntable mat options Mijostyn, Please tell me: Since you cannot play a record without a cartridge and tonearm, how would you ever know when a cartridge and tonearm have "no sound". Compared to what? Or do you have the power to look at the groove patterns and thereby... | |
| Phono cartridge suggestions sought I am not sure I would recommend a vintage cartridge (many of the best of which will cost $1000 and more) to a person who is new to the hobby or is just now trying to upgrade for the first time. Because one cannot be sure of the condition of the s... | |
| Need advice on new TT Of the 3 you actually prefer, Kronos. | |
| Simaudio 810lp vs. Brinkmann Edison phono stage Raul, I have no comment on your other statements, but 600 to 1000 ohms is not really a problem for driving almost any amplifier one might want to use, including solid state types. Not many amplifiers present an input impedance below 10K ohms. Ev... | |
| SME 20/2 Static Electricity The newest version of the Audioquest record brush is grounded via your body; the bristles are in electrical contact with the handle. I have found that this works pretty well to dispel static charge in the process of wiping an LP before play. All... | |
| HELP! Technics SL1200GR/Benz Glider Anit-Skate Setting High Sounds like your AS is at least connected and working. Like Chak said, I wouldn't worry about what is happening with the test LP, if you are happy with the music. There are other things that can cause mistracking which are unrelated to skating f... | |
| Playing mono records properly without breaking the bank - a phono pre-amp question. Uber, The 2-pin Denon is no problem, if you are content with driving only one of the two stereo channels, without a Y-adapter. If you used a Y-adapter (so as to be able to drive two channels in mono), there are possible issues with impedance, but... | |
| HELP! Technics SL1200GR/Benz Glider Anit-Skate Setting High Do you have any idea what "2", etc, means as regards the A/S setting? In my experience, zero A/S typically gives R channel distortion. If and when I add even a tiny amount of A/S, that distortion goes away. So, your experience has me puzzled, un... | |
| Playing mono records properly without breaking the bank - a phono pre-amp question. This thread has become a dog's breakfast of conflicting and/or redundant suggestions. (I just wanted the chance to use the "dog's breakfast" metaphor.) Anyway, get something with a mono switch to start with, and then decide for yourself if you l... | |
| Playing mono records properly without breaking the bank - a phono pre-amp question. Folkfreak and Lubachl, The better experiment, to work around Folkfreak's valid point that when comparing stereo cartridge A to mono cartridge B, you have to guess at the differences due solely to the basic goodness of the two cartridges, is to com... | |
| Playing mono records properly without breaking the bank - a phono pre-amp question. Elliott, Your experience is slightly different from mine. I played all LPs, mono or stereo, with a stereo cartridge for the first ~35 years of my audiophilia. And I agree with you partly, I never felt a crying need for a mono switch or a mono ca... | |
| Playing mono records properly without breaking the bank - a phono pre-amp question. No, there is really no "good" external switch for this purpose, because the signal voltage from a cartridge, even a high output one, is very low compared to line level signals, and passing that signal through a switch will inevitably do harm. Som... | |
| Is the Manley Steelhead still relevant? The Steelhead is not really more "complex" than the Lamm. It is more flexible and offers many more options. But all switching is done via high quality relays, so if you are paranoid about the extra circuitry, you can switch it out. Anyway, you ... | |
| Is the Manley Steelhead still relevant? I've owned my Steelhead (version 2.0) for about 3-4 years. I bought it second-hand off Audiogon, in mint original condition. I am using it as a full-function preamplifier to drive the built in amplifiers of a Beveridge 2SW speaker system. I boug... | |
| Unsolvable Woofer Pumping (Phono only) Millercarbon, I don’t say that I’m right and you’re wrong, but I am at opposites to you with respect to all the SR products you mention in your first paragraph or two on tweaks. Not that those things can’t make an audible difference, but I cannot ... |