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| Replacing components, Please weigh in! If the hum is coming from the unit itself and not over the speakers, then it probably has nothing to do with grounding. In fact, it is not electrical in nature. It most likely comes from a power transformer directly. Power transformers can vibrat... | |
| Mono Reissues and the Conical Stylus Dave, You wrote, "My take is that if the coils remain oriented at a 45º angle to the record and then wired in series for mono then it is a stereo cartridge wired for mono and it doesn't matter if it if done internally or externally. If however... | |
| LP12- Power Supply- Need education No problemo.if the new SOTA Eclipse motor is DC, and unless Carlin has totally changed his original design, I would bet the control is done on the incoming AC before it’s converted to DC to drive the motor. | |
| LP12- Power Supply- Need education Dear Bdp, I’d like to hear from Bill Carlin himself, if he really said what you say he said. If Bill did say that, of course I would yield to his far superior level of knowledge, compared to mine. But to take your point, first of all, DC is Direct... | |
| Mono Reissues and the Conical Stylus Hi Dave, Do you have any thoughts on the putative benefits of a "true mono" cartridge vs a mono cartridge created from a stereo cartridge by bridging the two channels internally?I think someone originally must have used the upper case "U" to symbo... | |
| LP12- Power Supply- Need education Mijo, With due respect, I think the old problem with the SOTA Sapphire was that the motor was mounted on a stationary platform while the platter, of course, was suspended. When the suspension was activated, that caused the belt to stretch and con... | |
| Loricraft Garrard 301 to Dobbins Sp10 Mk3 - What can I expect ? There are families of DD turntables, just as there are families of belt-drive and idler-drive types. You auditioned only one "brand": Technics. First of all, I find it hard to believe that you didn't hear substantial differences between the 1200... | |
| Loricraft Garrard 301 to Dobbins Sp10 Mk3 - What can I expect ? You might want to audition a Kenwood L07D, before you conclude you don’t like DD. Like other turntable drive systems, not all DD turntables exhibit the same SQ coloration, or lack thereof. Because you’re really saying here that you prefer a certai... | |
| Can you run the HANA SL MC at 100 ohms? Chili, I think you are underestimating the technical expertise of the designer at DB Systems. The kits are meant to be used in conjunction with a phono stage that has a fixed input resistance of 47K ohms. For other fixed input resistances, I sup... | |
| Mono Reissues and the Conical Stylus I bought a mono cartridge about a year ago and still haven't mounted it, because I am so pleased with the results using just the mono mode switch on either of my two preamplifiers. This also tells me that an internally bridged stereo cartridge mi... | |
| LP12- Power Supply- Need education Mijo, perhaps the modern or updated versions of the Star Sapphire are speed stable, but my late 90s Series III was anything but. At the time, it was all I had to judge by, and it had me thinking that it is the nature of vinyl not to be able to de... | |
| LP12- Power Supply- Need education Saburo, thank you for the correction. I admit I was not familiar with the very latest Linn add-ons. Perhaps they’ve been inspired by Phoenix. My general point about the capacity for speed correction is still my recommendation, while I also recogni... | |
| LP12- Power Supply- Need education None of the power supplies mentioned here, including any of the Linn options or the VPI PSs, incorporate a feedback mechanism whereby instantaneous changes in platter speed can be sensed and corrected. What you do is to set the PS such that your p... | |
| Herron VTPH-2A Phono Preamp....anyone familiar? I urge you guys to read an elementary book on audio electronics. You might thereby learn to understand why a preamp (for one example) exhibits disappointing bass response compared to another. In this case, it might simply be a matter of the value ... | |
| Mono Reissues and the Conical Stylus Ummm... Despite all your declarative sentences, the grooves in a vintage mono LP are shaped differently from those of a stereo LP. This changes how a stylus will wear out. Conical is well suited to mono. |