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| Phono Stage - The great analog tragedy Forgot Pickering and Stanton as dominant cartridge brands in the US in the 70s and before. | |
| A new way of adjusting anti skate! The problem is that some choose to use azimuth adjustment to optimize crosstalk measurements. When you do that, the stylus will only end up symmetrically placed in the groove if the cartridge was perfectly constructed internally, which the end us... | |
| Phono Stage - The great analog tragedy I reported “the way I experienced it”, and my experience is dictated by the fact that I didn’t become a bona fide audiophile until about 1970. Yes, I knew nothing about Ortofons sold in the 1950s. Shure, Grado, and ADC high output cartridges domin... | |
| Phono Stage - The great analog tragedy The way I experienced it in the US on the east coast, the Supex LOMC started the LOMC craze in the early to mid 70s. Harry Pearson and his Absolute Sound mag had a lot to do with it. SUTs were not in vogue. Mark Levinson marketed a prepreamp desig... | |
| A new way of adjusting anti skate! Another probably important cause of uneven stylus wear is incorrect azimuth adjustment. In fact, any azimuth setting that does not set the stylus tip symmetrically in the groove with respect to its two contact patches is going to result in uneven... | |
| which turntable or how to convert to balanced phono setup? Except the general consensus is that the XLR connector is inherently superior to the RCA connector, balanced or not. I'm just repeating what I have read on other websites populated by knowledgeable hobbyists. Not to mention that it looks that wa... | |
| which turntable or how to convert to balanced phono setup? Sorry to be so pedantic, but it is not the turntable (or the tonearm) that is "balanced". It is the cartridge; any (modern) cartridge can be connected so as to drive the phono stage in balanced mode, if the phono stage has a balanced input. No ma... | |
| which turntable or how to convert to balanced phono setup? For my part, I neglected to mention that a feaux balanced input can be implemented using a transformer at the input driving a single-ended circuit. Some commercial components do that. This offers some of the benefits of balanced operation. | |
| which turntable or how to convert to balanced phono setup? Elliott, Is it not the case that your Mac MX110 preamplifier is single-ended, at least the phono stage? If so, it is certainly no wonder that you heard no improvement with an XLR cable; the benefits if any are to be had if and only if the interna... | |
| Impedance Loading for SS Hyperion ChatGPT is only summarizing anything anyone ever wrote on the subject. So it tends to tell you what you already know. Or to put it another way, ChatGPT does not own an audio system or listen to music. | |
| Will a record weight harm the motor in a direct drive turntable? The vast majority of us is not going to know there is a problem with runout or the bearing unless or until he can see or hear a problem. But yes, it is nice to know that VPI is paying attention to bearing accuracy in manufacture. At least one can... | |
| Are you operating in the correct SPL window for high-fidelity listening? markalarsen, You wrote, "The differences cannot be so substantial that they cannot be compared." I use the same meter as you, the Radio Shack. I listen to full range ESL speakers. When I take measurements from my listening position, the readings ... | |
| Will a record weight harm the motor in a direct drive turntable? I thought the subject was record weights, not platters, and the assumption in considering what limits to place on record weights is that the platter bearing is in good functional condition according to the design parameters of the maker of the TT,... | |
| Are you operating in the correct SPL window for high-fidelity listening? Again, what meter, what weighting, what type of speaker (planar vs cone), how are you aiming your meter, what distance from the speaker, what angle with respect to the speakers??? All of these things dramatically affect the meter reading. Therefor... | |
| Are you operating in the correct SPL window for high-fidelity listening? I know there are some purists who advocate building a system such that no or nearly no attenuation is needed. And certainly most CDPs and DACs make enough gain to drive most amplifiers without an active linestage. So putting such a high level sign... |