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| Reel to Reel Tape In the 70s when R2R was alive and well, most audiophiles worshiped at the foot of Revox although certainly amperex and studer were the choice of professional s. I notice, now that it there is a Renaissance of R2R, not many people are reverting t... | |
| Technics Sp10 Mk2 vs SL-1200G - I finally did an A/B I think I was being too hard on Pani. I can well understand why he went for the PS upgrade just based on this affliction we all suffer from, that of being an "audiophile".Then too, I had the very weird experience of hearing that a fuse connected ... | |
| What phono pre am I looking for? JLTi is probably a very nice phono stage for the money, but let's not pretend that it competes with really good phono stages in higher price brackets. For Allen Wright and Joe Rasmussen, it was never their top of the line product. AW preferred h... | |
| Dynavector cartridges, old and new Thanks, effischer. I own three DV tonearms, two 505s and one 501. Mike Pranko helped me out more than once to obtain parts for these tonearms. Among distributors, he is one of the good guys. | |
| Lyra Atlas experiences I have never understood the "new battery" thing with the Foz. Brand new 9V batteries are not uniform in their measurable voltage output, and they generally will be producing somewhat more than 9V when they are new, but the exact value varies betw... | |
| Dynavector cartridges, old and new Thanks for the clarification.I noticed that the 17 D3 is not listed on the Dynavector website as a current product. In fact the only cartridges listed under the moving coil section are the 20 X2 and the DV 1S and T models. Yet I think you can stil... | |
| Pani ... New ART-9 up and running ... Now you can move up from Nancy to Frank. | |
| Dynavector cartridges, old and new bpoletti, I wasn't trying to be funny when I mentioned Raul. He has auditioned the 17 vs the 23; he wrote about it on the old big MM thread. On the other hand, I can imagine why you found it funny. I think Raul preferred the 23. As to all the alp... | |
| Technics Sp10 Mk2 vs SL-1200G - I finally did an A/B There's no denying the possible ways in which a PS can negatively effect performance of any device that is actively passing the signal and especially if it's amplifying the signal, like one of DB's amplifiers. What I am questioning is how the PS ... | |
| Dynavector cartridges, old and new Raul has. | |
| Dynavector cartridges, old and new I‘Ve got a 17D3 in like new condition. I basically inherited it after the passing of my dear audiophile friend. There’s a lot to be said for it, but I wonder how it really stacks up against today’s crop. (I think MCs have gotten better and bette... | |
| SL1200GAE New Tonearm Dear Raul, I am waiting for you to back up your claim that placing the tonearm bearing in the plane of the LP is a good idea only for gimbal type tonearms, not for unipivots. Please do explain why a unipivot would not benefit from such a design e... | |
| Technics Sp10 Mk2 vs SL-1200G - I finally did an A/B With due respect, I disagree with many of your a priori assumptions. True, EMI from the tt motor can move back onto the AC line and contaminate the AC going to other components, and I suppose any EMI or RFI from an SMPS can do the same, but it is... | |
| Technics Sp10 Mk2 vs SL-1200G - I finally did an A/B I take that back. Of course there is another way that the PS could color the sound, and that’s by direct radiation of RFI or EMI that could be picked up by the cartridge. But that is a problem that could easily be prevented in the design, if adeq... | |
| Technics Sp10 Mk2 vs SL-1200G - I finally did an A/B PaniI just cannot come up with a hypothesis to explain how the SMPS could cause a fogging of the audio signal from the turntable. In my most paranoid way of thinking about it I suppose it could cause a periodic speed aberration but no one has repo... |