lewm
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| Sussurro MkII and surface noise? Except setting azimuth with a mirror and any setting of anti-skate are inexact. Anyway VTA is where it’s at for this issue. Also I’d talk to Peter Ledermann. He’ll have the best advice. | |
| Sussurro MkII and surface noise? I am no expert on stylus shapes, but so far as I know, micro-ridge types are quite different from line contact types. Also, could you be leaping to conclusions based on only a few samples? Those of us afflicted with audiophilia nervosa tend to d... | |
| Forever turntable under $2000 Sleepwalker, The coreless motor in the new Technics turntables, even including the SP10R that was tested by M Fremer and found to be the most speed stable turntable that he has ever evaluated, derives from the first coreless turntable motor, inven... | |
| Any Hagerman Trumpet users have tube suggestions? Note that when I say depending upon the filament voltage, I mean that you will need to ask Hagaman whether the unit provides six or 12 V for the filaments. Then choose the tube accordingly as regards 6FQ7 or 12 FQ7. When I say the 6CG7 would requ... | |
| Any Hagerman Trumpet users have tube suggestions? Congratulations on your purchase. I looked around for one of those years ago but was unsuccessful. For 12AX7, TFK would be my choice if you can be certain they’re genuine. For 12AU7, my first choice would be to ditch them if they’re in a gain stag... | |
| TX-103 break in. Chakster, With all due respect and meaning no offense, first you describe the input shunt resistors of the CPP-1, which is not a SUT but a pre-preamplifier designed to amplify the voltage of the signal generated from a cartridge, without adding RI... | |
| DIFFICULT PROBLEM WITH A REPAIR SERVICE- I don't know where you are located, but if you have the stomach for trying again, I suggest Bill Thalmann of Music Tecnologies in Springfield, VA. If Bill cannot fix it, he will tell you straight out after trying. | |
| Increasing gain for your vinyl front end when pre-amp doesn't quite have enough juice What cartridge are you using? What is it's output voltage?From your post, I am not quite certain what you are using now, except it's a Schiit Mani. If at least I got that right, is the Mani a phono-only unit or does it include a linestage, which ... | |
| TX-103 break in. Charliee, In one of your responses, you mentioned hooking the CDP to the INPUT of the SUT. I am guessing that was a momentary lapse; Loesch and all the others are talking about hooking the signal to the OUTPUTs of the SUT. Just to be certain.Whi... | |
| Anybody out there re-cantilever their cartridge with a Soundsmith Contact Line diamond ? Classe DR9 is already Class A. | |
| Anybody out there re-cantilever their cartridge with a Soundsmith Contact Line diamond ? For me, the most significant information in the cited post by J Carr, who does know about this stuff, is that the cartridge is a closed system made up of parts that have been selected to work well together, or at least according to the designers i... | |
| Technics SL-23 TT opinions.. mated with Denon DL-103? Who here mentioned using a Black Widow with a low compliance cartridge?But just in case, keep in mind that the mass of the cartridge is added to the effective mass of the tonearm. Since most low compliance cartridges are heavier than most high com... | |
| Technics SL-23 TT opinions.. mated with Denon DL-103? I have very successfully run an Acutex cartridge, with stated compliance of 42, in a Fidelity Research FR64S (high mass) tonearm using a 10g headshell. (The original FR64S headshells were much heavier and only added further to the high effective ... | |
| Why not use a non-contact stylus on a turntable? No. We're not talking about "survival". The vinyl medium has a life of its own for many, many reasons, not all of them rational but most of them compelling to those of us who pursue the art, and so far sustaining. Meantime, it seemed to me that ... | |
| Technics SL-23 TT opinions.. mated with Denon DL-103? It’s a simple matter to turn a low or medium mass tonearm into a high mass one; just add weight at the headshell. For $150 it’s worth a shot. I would not be intimidated by the apparent mismatch between a 12g tonearm and a Denon DL103. If after add... |