lewm
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| Cimpliance Vs Cartridge loading For the second time, compliance (of the cartridge) has nothing to do with loading the cartridge. Every cartridge has an internal resistance or DCR. The DCR is equal to the resistance you would measure with a meter, if you put one probe on the "h... | |
| Best MM? Chakster, I really don’t think Orpheus reads our posts. To lump juke box and DJ cartridges of the 50s with the highly evolved late production Stantons and Pickering XSV is ludicrous. Because both types had built in brushes? | |
| Best MM? Orpheus, The best of the Stantons/Pickerings (which are really analogous to each other) are from the 70s and perhaps 80s. We had nothing like them in the 50s, for sure. Stereo came in only in the late 50s and didn't take over until the mid-60s.... | |
| Best MM? Orpheus, Do you mean to say we were “half way” into mono in the 70s and 80s? I don’t get your point. MC cartridges didn’t enter the US market until the mid 70s. And those early contenders were not very good compared to “good” mm or mi. | |
| What separate tube phono stage do you use ? When you select a phono stage, all you have to consider are:tubes vs ssbalanced vs seavailable gainactive RIAA vs passiveRC vs LCR vs LR RIAA correction Number of inputs, switchable?On board cartridge loading or not And there’s more. So it is no w... | |
| Best MM? B&O MMC1I have one NOSSell or keep?Also:Orto M20 FL SuperEmpire 4000DIII and 1000ZXStanton 881S IIAKG. No one even mentions these. | |
| Don't buy Allnic H1201 phono stage new. Perhaps you would like to tell us just exactly why you anticipate that the new model will be so far superior to the old one. Because it is not necessarily the case that a tube-based power supply will make for a better sound compared to a solid st... | |
| Retip for zyx tooblue, When you say "the same cartridge", do you refer to the Grace Ruby, or which other? If the Grace Ruby, you evidently chose to put a boron cantilever on it. Now it's a Grace Boron. Neither cartridge is now "stock", but I do own a second ... | |
| Just bought Technics SL1000 MK3 need to buy/borrow platter removal tools Thanks, JP. Otherwise I would have to un-stick the Boston Audio Mat2 in order to visually inspect the platter lift holes. Or go onto the Soundfountain website. | |
| Just bought Technics SL1000 MK3 need to buy/borrow platter removal tools JPAlthough I cannot recall the precise metric size, I’m sure the holes in my platter conform to some standard metric. | |
| Retip for zyx Hdm, I have the SS OCL ruby on my Grace Ruby. I agree it’s finicky. | |
| Retip for zyx Tooblue. I am not sure what you are offering. I do own the low output, copper coil, X version of the Universe, but if you have the same, what is there to gain? | |
| Just bought Technics SL1000 MK3 need to buy/borrow platter removal tools Push come to shove, just buy a pair of (M3?) metric screws. You can lift the platter by just gripping them. It's no big deal. You'll be using two hands to lift about 21 lbs. Not difficult.When you talk to Colby, mention my name to jog his memor... | |
| Retip for zyx Before I got crazy with turntables, tonearms, and cartridges, which must have been about 10 years ago and definitely coincides with my finding these various fora for discussion, I owned only one turntable, one tonearm, and one cartridge at a time... | |
| Just bought Technics SL1000 MK3 need to buy/borrow platter removal tools Sorry, Rich.In lieu of the factory-supplied handles for the Mk3 platter, I made a handle as follows: (1) Start with a piece of aluminum pipe, about a foot long, or long enough to traverse the distance between the two threaded holes in the top of ... |