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| 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 ... | |
| Buy High Pass Filter or KAB RF1? Chakster, On a purist basis, I would question the use of those AT pneumatic isolators under a loudspeaker, because it seems to me that depending upon weight of speaker and stiffness of the AT feet, the speakers might be free to rock back and forth... | |
| Help!! Bought Rega TT in the UK and now cant use it in the U.S. You might at least check to see if what Chakster said is correct. Is there in fact a 50Hz/60Hz switch on the motor? (I'd be surprised.) If not, I would think your cheapest option is to spend the $150 for the correct motor. If you return your pre... | |
| Unsolvable Woofer Pumping (Phono only) Since the advent of small, high power, Class D solid state amplifiers and the rise in popularity of home theater, about 20 or more years ago, there have appeared in the market a myriad of small, self-powered subwoofers that typically also have adj... | |
| Buy High Pass Filter or KAB RF1? Craigert, Re this last post, define "rumbling". Are you hearing a noise or are you watching the drivers do a dance, in and out? | |
| Unsolvable Woofer Pumping (Phono only) newbee, Good point. But the cure of damping might worsen the disease. Damping would add mass to the tonearm, and that would drive the resonant frequency downward. Resonant frequency is inversely proportional to effective mass. Oil damping, as ... | |
| Unsolvable Woofer Pumping (Phono only) No. A speaker with extended bass response would not help. Most cabinets are ported in one way or another and therefore don’t exert much control over the woofer motion. However such designs in my opinion offer a natural sounding bass response. What... | |
| Unsolvable Woofer Pumping (Phono only) If you do eventually install a high pass (rumble) filter, you might choose a lower frequency roll-off. 10Hz should do it. If your filter has its "knee" at 20Hz, that will affect higher bass frequencies more than is necessary for the effect you des... | |
| VTA Cartridge To begin with, based on his description (see above), I think the OP is conflating azimuth with VTA:"Could I consider that the front face of my cartidge (DV20x2H) is perpendicular (90 degree) relative to the vinyle surface, can we concider that it ... | |
| Buy High Pass Filter or KAB RF1? Craigert, Based on one of your posts here, do you seriously plan to put the filter between the phono cables and the phono input of your preamplifier? If so, that's a no-no, if you care at all about SQ. If you're bi-amplifying the speakers, do y... |