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| ATN160ml Beryllium MicroLine Stylus on AT150e body How do you know when a cartridge is "happily tracking"? | |
| Pass XP-17 and Hana ML loading question SSG, when you say you hear hiss at “above 70db”, are you talking Soind Pressure Level (SPL) or voltage? If SPL, bow are you measuring that? 70 db SPL at the listener position is not very loud. Anyway, hiss when you crank the volume control on a so... | |
| Linn Bedrok LP12 Plinth Upgrade Elliot, The spring suspension isolates the chassis, motor, platter, bearing, etc, from the plinth, at least that is my understanding without having owned an LP12. So I would think of the plinth as being outside the suspension system. One would ha... | |
| Linn LP12 turntable As a Jewish person who often plays the game "Jew, not a Jew" with one of my close friends, I can say that I had no idea at all that Ivor might be Jewish, if that is what you are implying, Davey. I never thought about it one way or the other. Yet... | |
| Linn LP12 turntable Davey, What sort of racism is that? Anti-Tiefenbrun-ism? I would have thought he was British or Scottish, but the name suggests possibly German originally. Perhaps you would like to correct that sentence or else explain it better. | |
| 3k budget for Turntable and Phono Noob- do I need external power supplies? Haha. Yes. My more egregious omission was to mention that there’s no appreciable benefit unless your phono stage and downstream equipment are also true balanced devices. | |
| Warm sounding phono cartridge I have about 3000 LPs, but I don’t really know exactly. For you to be able to quote a number like 31300, which suggests you actually count them is impressive. The vast majority of my LPs have no or very tolerable surface noise. If not, and if clea... | |
| Fidelity Research FR-64 vs. FR-54 fonoman, You are 8 years late to the party. Raul is mellowed since then. I now own a 3160 Essential Phonolinepramp, and in my opinion it is the best sounding solid state preamplifier (phono plus linestage) that I have heard. For me it renders the... | |
| Linn Bedrok LP12 Plinth Upgrade It’s Lew M, not Lew N. I live in the US, not in the UK. The price on the Linn website is $32,800. The price of the SP1000R at Music Direct is $19,999, or something like that. The list price of both TTs does include a tonearm. So, for a US resident... | |
| Linn Bedrok LP12 Plinth Upgrade Newton, baby: Technics SP1000R price is $20K, brand new from Music Direct. That's $10K less than a Klimax LP12. (Actually, the Klimax is shown at $32,800 on the Linn website, so more like ~$13K less for the SP1000R.) A new Minus K platform is pro... | |
| Phono Cartridge IMD Measurements, Observations and a Question Ralph, Are you suggesting that the platter mat contributes to IMD, or what? I could imagine that it would, actually. Kevemaher, I am still hoping you will switch tonearm/cartridge combinations to see whether that (energy dissipation in the pod vs... | |
| Linn Bedrok LP12 Plinth Upgrade I am shocked, shocked I tell you, to learn the cost of a Klimax LP12 plus and minus the new plinth. I suppose it is reluctantly acceptable to a person who already owns and loves the LP12. I admit that I have a bias in the opposite direction; I p... | |
| Linn Bedrok LP12 Plinth Upgrade So it IS Panzerholz-like or it IS Baltic Birch. One or the other. What is the base price of the latest version, Klimax? I am guessing in the $20K range. If you own one already and now want the plinth upgrade for $9K or $11K, that's a lot of m... | |
| Linn Bedrok LP12 Plinth Upgrade If it really is Baltic Birch, then it is horrifically overpriced. I heretofore thought the plinth of the 50th Anniversary LP12 was made from a densified wood, like Panzerholz, which is expensive to buy and very difficult to machine, somewhat just... | |
| My Analog Journey - Opinions Sought Or do just the opposite of ghd’s advice. |