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| 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... | |
| Tubes sound like a broken lightbulb Depends upon how hard you shook them to elicit the sound you hear. Don't forget those octal triodes have a large glass envelope with substantial metal and mica structures inside. I do believe that if you shake such tubes GENTLY, you might hear t... | |
| Denon Turntable DP 15F runs backwards ! Someone suggested cleaning the tape coating the inner rim of the platter with alcohol. I am not sure this is a bad idea, but it might be. The guiding principle is that that tape coating is essential to proper function of the speed control system.... | |
| Recently Inherited a Kenwood L-O7D If an L07D falls from the sky, it will likely fragment unless very well secured. | |
| SPL Phonos Phono Preamp audiofun, It is I who owe you an apology for being a bit snotty in my initial post. We can agree to disagree on whether or not AC from the wall socket carries the "entire electrical signal", but I do disagree with you. You use the word "signal";... | |
| Recently Inherited a Kenwood L-O7D The outboard power supply should have a long umbilical cord attached to it. At the other end is a complex plug that should mate to a male receptacle on the main chassis. FIRST, before you do anything, see if it is a 100V version, which in all li... | |
| Which vintage direct drive? Terry, You compared your top of the line Nottingham to an old technology, and chronologically old Technics DD. That is really not a fair comparison of belt-drive vs direct-drive types. The Dias would be far superior to the Technics, in so many w... | |
| If I were to replace my VPI Airies1 with a 4k or so budget? By now, I thought you guys would know that the SOTA eclipse motor controller system is a highly sophisticated device based on the now discontinued phoenix engineering products. As such it is miles ahead of a VPI SDS and light years ahead of usin... | |
| If I were to replace my VPI Airies1 with a 4k or so budget? I would say ditch the flywheel which is the major space-eater and add a motor controller specifically the SOTA Eclipse if the vpi motor is ac synchronous. You’ll experience a major upgrade AND a reduction in size in one fell swoop. If the vpi moto... | |
| If I were to replace my VPI Airies1 with a 4k or so budget? I would say ditch the flywheel which is the major space-eater and add a motor controller specifically the SOTA Eclipse if the vpi motor is ac synchronous. You’ll experience a major upgrade AND a reduction in size in one fell swoop. If the vpi moto... | |
| shibata or microline, pls respond ONLY if you specifically have tried both. cleeds, "Zenith" is not something I made up. If you have a pivoted tonearm with headshell offset, and if you then alter azimuth by rotating the arm wand back near the pivot (BEFORE the headshell offset angle is introduced), then the headshell its... | |
| SPL Phonos Phono Preamp audiofun, Back in January of this year, you responded to my question about the fuse upgrade by this statement: "If you can’t hear the difference a better circuit conduit makes while carrying the entire electrical signal then by all means keep the... | |
| shibata or microline, pls respond ONLY if you specifically have tried both. "Azimuth on the fly". THAT I would like to see.I say this because the only proper way to adjust azimuth is to rotate the headshell (or the end of the tonearm that is offset at an angle) around its axis. If you rotate the whole tonearm back near ... |