lewm
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| a dilemma for cartridge/phono stage combination Apparently, your major responder, Robjerman, is under the impression that your current phono section is a type built for "high output" cartridges, most typically a moving magnet type. However, if I read your own posts correctly, you did have enou... | |
| Vinyl***What If*** You will now receive umpty-nine completely different opinions and suggestions. But there's nothing wrong with that. You could put some sort of boundary on the variety within the responses by stating your upper limit as to cost.I'll start. I'd b... | |
| Anyone compared Aesthetix Rhea and Allnic H-1201 or H-1202 phono stages? My experience with Aesthetix was in the form of the Janus. I found that the Janus really needed and merited better coupling capacitors, which is largely what you get if you opt for the Signature version of either the Janus or the Rhea. I highly ... | |
| Technics Turntables...really??? nkonor, I detect a mixed message in your post. If there is "no going back", once one has purchased a good DD turntable, then why on earth should everyone own one of each? And why should a current buyer "snatch up" the LP12, therefore? | |
| Cogging! bimasta, I've never owned or even heard a FR MC201 cartridge, or any other FR cartridge, for that matter. Does that answer your question, which I have forgotten? (Sorry for not having come forward sooner.)The Denon DP80 does have a 3-phase AC sy... | |
| Opinion on SME 15 "PRaT" is marketing bulls**t. SME stuff tends to be very neutral. If you like it, fine. | |
| MC suggestions By all accounts, the original MC2000 bears an aluminum cantilever with a "fine line" tip. That’s another way of saying "line contact". According to our friend, Nikola, Axel had a small supply of actual original alu cantilevers with "fine line" sty... | |
| MC suggestions Chakster, Would you care to say what is so irreplaceably "special" about the line contact stylus on the MC2000? Assuming that the cantilever is replaced with a cantilever of like material and the stylus with a good modern line contact type, why c... | |
| JVC TT-101 Won't Stop bestie, I have no idea whether or not the particular circuit and ICs of the TT101 would be affected by lead length, but I am certain that some such circuits, using very wide bandwidth SS devices operating at high speed, are so affected. JP probabl... | |
| Vinyl vs high def audio i.e. 24bit / 96 or 192khz 3 easy payments,For 5K spent on turntable, tonearm, cartridge, and phono stage, and a willingness to consider used equipment (or maybe even if you stick to new), you can easily equal or surpass a 5K digital front end. It all depends upon you as li... | |
| JVC TT-101 Won't Stop It'd be great but you'd want to shoot yourself before you finished. There would be many pitfalls. Some of these circuits are affected by lead length, just to begin with. Also, it is a trick to get a multiple pin IC off a PCB and then successfull... | |
| Grace F14 MONO cartridges and styli Chakster, you’re doing nothing wrong. The purist approach would be to hook up only one channel to the cartridge. No need to go that far. A mono switch would make no difference as far as impedance matching at the headshell. | |
| Phono preamp Pass Labs XP-17 or XP-27 Maybe there will be good deals on the 25 now that it’s been superseded by the 27. That’s how I would shop. | |
| Audio Additives Stylus Force Gauge inconstantcy To the OP: Lower the cartridge (preferably an MC cartridge, because they have big magnets) until it is barely above the weigh pan but not touching it. Does the gauge show a negative weight value? If so, that indicates it contains some low level ... | |
| Grace F14 MONO cartridges and styli Sorry, I forgot one thing. Chakster, the way you have hooked up your Grace to your stereo system could cause a degradation of performance, because each channel of your stereo phono stage is now seeing the output impedance of the cartridge in para... |