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| 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... | |
| Cartridge loading Dave, I read your post after responding to Chakster. But I hope there will be more comments on loading and especially on "current drive", over and above the discussions you and I have had privately. On the question of whether increasing the load... | |
| Cartridge loading As I have mentioned many times, the input impedance cannot be zero. If it were, you would have no output at all because the signal would be connected directly to ground. That condition (zero input impedance) is in effect a mute switch. Most "curr... | |
| Victor UA-7082 Arm, Rubber Washer at Rear Counterweight Tube: Sag/Repair/Fitting Damage. I have had my UA7045 apart at the counter-weight, so I can sort of follow your description of what you found, but I'm not totally clear. In my case, I could not get the mating metal pieces apart, which you need to do in order to replace the rubber... | |
| Lamm phono stage LP2.1 Deluxe with low output ZYX MC cart Who said "people" can't hear differences due to loading an MC cartridge? Speaking for myself, I simply advised the OP that the fixed loading afforded by his particular phono stage would be fine. He has no other choice without spending many $$$. ... | |
| Cartridge loading Raul, You could make a useful contribution to the thread by describing why you (apparently) think Ralph is incorrect in his statement that low resistive loads on an MC cartridge can impede its ability to trace HF. And by the way, in the American/... | |
| Lamm phono stage LP2.1 Deluxe with low output ZYX MC cart For most MC cartridges, as Chakster said, any load resistance above 100 ohms will certainly "work". People do argue about how a particular load resistance "sounds" with a particular LOMC cartridge. If you will read the contentious thread on this... | |
| SME 3009 II Unimporved -- "Thin" Sound The OP elicited a lot of good comments. None of us is inside "widebrow"'s head, so none of us can be sure what is "missing", as far as he's concerned, from the results of this experiment into analog. I can only offer my personal opinion. When I r... | |
| What's Worth More on the Open Market - Your Records or Your Audio Gear A friend just sold his LP collection, around 2000 LPs, for $20,000. I was flabbergasted that the selling price was so high. However, his system easily cost more than $100K. Assuming he can re-sell his gear for ~$60K (60% of retail), the system i... | |
| Vinyl cleaning and alcohol I also advocate a distilled water rinse after cleaning with my own mixture of isopropanol, non-ionic detergent, and water. Otherwise, I do believe the detergent can leave a residue. I heard an improvement when I added the pure water rinse step. ... | |
| The Arm/Cartridge Matching Myth The problem with your conclusion based on your observations is that you can have no idea what the actual compliance of your Shure cartridge is at this point in time. By now, it may be a low compliance cartridge which is actually a fairly good matc... | |
| Should the Tone Arm be Removed When Installing Cartridge? I guess according to Miller there would be 3 categories among us: audiophiles, sensible persons, and Linnies. We know the latter group are irredeemable.i see merit in mijo’s approach, if you have an easily removable arm board and a non-removable h... |