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| Has anyone upgraded from an AudioTechnica ART9? Pani, First of all, I do apologize if you felt insulted by my mention of your proclivities. I meant no slur but was trying to use you as an example of some who like to change their gear, up and down the line, from time to time, just for the fun a... | |
| Has anyone upgraded from an AudioTechnica ART9? If you follow Pani's posts, you might notice that he is frequently in the market for a new this or a new that. There's nothing wrong with that; it's part of the fun of the hobby for some of us, but it does suggest that Pani is on a different jour... | |
| Has anyone upgraded from an AudioTechnica ART9? Just to correct myself: I wrote that the output of the ART7 is 0.24mV. After I posted, some others mentioned the output at 0.12mV. Those persons are correct; the output is 0.12mV, not 0.24mV. Sorry about that. However, for what it's worth, I r... | |
| Phono Cart Impedance Question dan, possibly you got that result, because a 10-ohm load resistance would result in a very severe high frequency roll off in the audible range, using almost any cartridge except maybe a very LOMC with a 2-ohm or lower internal resistance. You thr... | |
| Has anyone upgraded from an AudioTechnica ART9? The AT ART7 gets very little mention here and elsewhere. I own one and I like it very much. I have never heard an ART9, so I am not able to say that the 7 is better or worse, but it is hard to beat the ART7 even with very much more expensive LOMC ... | |
| Can you use the Kirmuss Ultrasonic cleaner without the lengthy white paste steps What's in Tergikleen besides Tergitol, which is a non-ionic detergent very much like Triton (9 carbons in Tergitol instead of 8 in Triton)? I cannot find a description of its make-up (Tergikleen, I mean) on line. | |
| Has anyone upgraded from an AudioTechnica ART9? Your “through the roof” expectation bias alone might be enough to make you happy with almost any cartridge that you pay from $2000-$5000 for. On the other hand, you might find that a particular cartridge in that price range is not as good as the a... | |
| Basis Turntables: Worth it or Ripoff? nkonor and ctsooner, I recently retired from a career as a medical scientist (in the field of virology). Your testimonies reminded me that at about the time I was in med school, nearly 50 years ago, the concept of "autoimmune" disease was describ... | |
| Hear my Cartridges....🎶 Raul, I think the group (of which I cannot count myself a member, since I have offered no SQ opinions so far) has acknowledged the effect of tonearm and headshell (and tacitly, the turntable); the Palladian was run on both the SAEC/Victor and then... | |
| Grace Level ll So, you have an opinion, just like the rest of us. That is fine. I understand that you are much younger than I, and you are only just now discovering the history. But I and probably others here actually were already audiophiles back in the day whe... | |
| Phono Cart Impedance Question Whatever you decide, keep in mind that all tubes change noise characteristics as they age, and the curve for increasing noise as tubes go from SLN to not so SLN is not predictable from tube to tube. So SLN tubes are a crap shoot wherein the game i... | |
| Any Love for the Grace F10 L Moving Coil Cartridge Given its output voltage and its high-ish internal impedance/resistance, this seems to be what we now would call a "High Output" Moving Coil, meaning the coil is fairly hefty in order to generate such a healthy output voltage. I wonder how it comp... | |
| garrard vs clearaudio innovation IF there is low frequency rumble, that fact that you don't have conventional woofers will only save you from having to observe the cone dance that might otherwise result. However, the rumble would still eat up amplifier energy and possibly cause ... | |
| Phono Cart Impedance Question Just to note that running the phono stage with no cartridge connected is very likely to produce volume control dependent levels of hiss. Most of our phono stages will behave that way. | |
| Phono Cart Impedance Question By the terms "8 ohm" and "12 ohm", I presume you refer to the internal resistance of the cartridge itself. Yes? If so, what is the value of the load resistor in your phono stage. If the value is anything above 100 ohms, the answer likely would ... |