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| New Gold Note PH 10 Slim, thank you for your detailed explanation of the whest phono product line. When you first used the numeric designation 40, I thought you had simply mistyped “30”, because I was unaware of the latest update. I can understand that if you have ... | |
| Stylus not tracking and sounds terrible mijo, I very much doubt your hypothesis, if you're implying that there is magnetic pull between the amplifier power transformer and the cantilever. Transformers do generate EMI (electro-magnetic interference) but not very much magnetism. And canti... | |
| New Gold Note PH 10 Chakster, Obviously, I won't be buying BOTH a Gold Note and a Whest. In fact, I own an old Silvaweld top of the line phono stage (550SWH, I think) that I modified, probably too much. That's probably what I will use as an extra MM phono stage, if... | |
| New Gold Note PH 10 Funny you mention the outboard PS. One of my longstanding beefs with the Whest stages is that they seemed to lack an outboard supply, which to me is a must, for the price range inhabited by the upper level Whest products. In fact, I just took a ... | |
| New Gold Note PH 10 Exactly which of the many versions of the west phono stage do you have? I know it is a Whest three, but there seems to be more than one version of the three. I am open minded to the whest , as well as to the gold note. If I were to go ahead and ma... | |
| New Gold Note PH 10 Reading between the lines, you seem to be saying that despite the high capacitance at the input of the gold note, you are very happy with the combination of the AT20SS with a gold note . It would be interesting to see if you like the combination o... | |
| New Gold Note PH 10 I have a feeling they add some capacitance in parallel with the input, to prevent oscillation of the input gain device, which is probably a wideband transistor. And both tubes and solid state devices develop some inherent additional capacitance r... | |
| Tonearm base for Denon DK300 plinth? Non-magnetic for sure, but after that it's your choice. However, aluminum or brass are the two best obvious choices, if you choose to use metal. Machinists like to work with them, because they are relatively soft. And "On-line Metals" is a good ... | |
| Stylus not tracking and sounds terrible Keep it for a mono cartridge. | |
| Tonearm base for Denon DK300 plinth? I am guessing that you are either missing the tonearm mounting board entirely or that you have one cut out for a 9-inch tonearm. This is a simple problem. If you have a "wrong" tonearm mounting board, just measure it and have a new one made out ... | |
| New Gold Note PH 10 I see that it says 220pF in the specs, but look at page 9 of the owners manual, in the troubleshooting section. There at the top of the page you will see “330pF”. I agree this is in conflict with the specs. Even 220pF is high-ish before adding cap... | |
| New Gold Note PH 10 I am getting interested in this phono stage, as a secondary unit because I need more phono inputs. I went to the gold note website to read more about it. There they say that the phono inputs present a fixed capacitance of 330 pF . That seems rath... | |
| Shelter 501 mkii then what now Audio Technica ART7, if your phono stage has sufficient gain for about 0.2 or 0.25mV cartridge output. It’s technologically advanced beyond the ART9 (because it uses amorphous core coils and ART9 does not), yet costs a bit less. Can be had for ~$8... | |
| Dynavector XX2 mk2 vs Lyra DELOS which is better? Ignorance is bliss. Thankfully, this axiom operates for all of us. None of us can have the best of everything. Or at least none of us that I know about. So, you could close your eyes and make a pick. Having made a decision, you will not know what... | |
| Why will no other turntable beat the EMT 927? “People”.Soylent green is people.. |