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| Anyone listen/own to the Yamaha GT-5000 Turntable? Thank you for your continuing surveillance of my posts. I don't know what I would do without your oversight. Not only is the new tonearm not novel to Yamaha, but it is also not novel in that the Viv Float and the 47 Labs RS-A1 tonearms, which ha... | |
| Anyone listen/own to the Yamaha GT-5000 Turntable? I have never seen it in person least of all heard one. What I don’t like about it is the fact that it is belt drive, not direct drive as were the classic Yamaha turntables after which it is designed. What I do like about it is the very novel and ... | |
| The Arm/Cartridge Matching Myth Chakster, OF COURSE, there are extreme values for compliance and effective mass that might knock the Fr out of the generally accepted range of 8 to 12 Hz. My point is that the equation shows there is a lot of room for variation, and my other point... | |
| The Arm/Cartridge Matching Myth I just want to be careful to point out that I am not even necessarily advocating breaking any rules (although I do it myself). I am pointing out that what may SEEM to be in violation of the Fr rule (range of 8 to 12Hz) may not in fact be a violat... | |
| The Arm/Cartridge Matching Myth One of the reasons why there can be wide latitude for tonearm effective mass, if the target is a resonant frequency (Fr) of between 8 and 12Hz, is the very nature of the equation used to calculate Fr, which reflects the physical laws that govern F... | |
| best phono stage under 10k I thought the major issue here was eliminating RF from the adjacent radio transmitter. I am fortunate enough that I have no such problems, living in the industry-less Washington DC area; there are some huge radio and TV station towers in town, bu... | |
| best phono stage under 10k Tubes are no more susceptible to RFI than solid state. In fact, to the degree that SS components may operate across a very wide bandwidth, up into the hundreds of thousands of Hz, some SS devices might be worse than a similar tube device. Immuni... | |
| High-Output MC cartride with "MM" Phono Stage To answer your actual question, no, there is no reason not to use a high output MC cartridge to drive a MM phono stage, providing the gain is adequate for the cartridge. And as you mentioned, of course you need to consider the load resistance and ... | |
| Manley Chinook Depends upon the output of your cartridge and the available gain settings on your Chinook. Also, are you using the Chinook with a separate linestage or as a full function preamp? If the latter, then you are getting all your gain from the phono sec... | |
| Curious about the difference in what I’d hear on different tonearms Your specific question was really very narrow. You really needed responses only from persons who have owned and used the rega 303, 808, and 2000 tonearms, if I understand your post correctly. Which is why I did not respond, except to Mijo on his p... | |
| Fidelity Research FR-54 Tonearm. ANTI-SKATE??? Yes the skating force is due to friction between stylus and vinyl groove.It therefore stands to reason that the size of the contact patch afforded by different stylus shapes would affect friction and therefore affect the skating force and therefor... | |
| MC cartridge loading: still baffled Reviewing this thread, what surprises me is how many other people besides myself have empirically discovered that they prefer to use a 47K load with one or another LOMC cartridge. I arrived at the conclusion that I preferred 47K quite by accident... | |
| Denon DP3000 DD turntable You should go to the website “Vintage knob” for baseline info. I believe the dp3000 was a midrange model in the first of two series of DD turntables made by Denon. The top model was DP6000. You should check me out on this, but I think that early ... | |
| Manley Chinook with (very) low output MC ZYX? Thanks, JT. FWIW, I think Evanna goes by “Ms”, not Mrs. Sometimes we swap out parts just because it gives a feeling of control. But without a schematic and the proper knowledge, it’s a crap shoot. Manley won’t give out schematics even to professi... | |
| MC cartridge loading: still baffled I would guess that using a blank LP would give you a baseline for AS force, because I am guessing that the skating force on a blank surface would be a bit less in magnitude compared to that of a stylus traveling in a groove, where the contact poin... |