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| XLR out on a tuner? What Al said.One other example of this was the now vintage Sony flagship CD player, the model name of which escapes me (SCD1?). It too used an op amp (or possibly discrete devices) to create a balanced output. The scuttlebutt was that the standa... | |
| Bardo and 10.5 vs Stabi S and 4point 9 Sksos, Quartz clock or no quartz clock, the Timeline is naught but a set of strobe lights that blink at a constant frequency. As such, the enhanced accuracy has most to do with the very long distance from the spindle to the wall upon which one r... | |
| SAT 30K+$$ TONEARM: W O R T H T O H A V E I T ? Not your fault.i have to work on my concrete thinking. | |
| SAT 30K+$$ TONEARM: W O R T H T O H A V E I T ? Chayro, you and Raul should go out for coffee together. You have much in common. Tubes per se are as linear or even more linear then any solid state devices. What’s more, they are as low or lower in distortion. I am referring to the inherent pro... | |
| SAT 30K+$$ TONEARM: W O R T H T O H A V E I T ? Re the Townshend Alignment Gauge. It looks to me as though the "beef" is missing from his analysis. (Found a treatise on Vinyl Engine.) His gauge in essence declares what the distortion will be for a given tracking angle error. What I was after... | |
| SAT 30K+$$ TONEARM: W O R T H T O H A V E I T ? bdp24, Thanks. Can you cite the reference or reproduce the data here? I'd love to go read the article, if I knew where to find it. | |
| SAT 30K+$$ TONEARM: W O R T H T O H A V E I T ? Has anyone ever shown how tracking angle error really truly equates with distortion of the audio signal? So far as I know the custom is to calculate the audio signal distortion caused by tracking angle error, using an equation originally put forw... | |
| Bardo and 10.5 vs Stabi S and 4point 9 SKSOS. You owned a Bardo with speed stability issues? Surely that would’ve been an item you could send back to the manufacturer. That should never happen with any direct drive turntable. Some may be better than others, but none should have grossl... | |
| What phono pre am I looking for? If one wants to stick with solid state, and if one has money to spend, and since the OP wants at least two phono inputs, I highly recommend the DS Audio phono stages. I have heard them both in my house, in my system, and they are among the rare S... | |
| Foil damping tape as a tonearm tube wrap? celander, Regarding your proposed use of the damping tape with the London cartridge, if you think about the physics of the situation, is it not possible that by wrapping the tonearm wand, you are inhibiting its capacity to dissipate energy transmi... | |
| FR66s vs Ikeda IT-407 CR tonearms I think one reason for the differing mass data for the fr66s and other tonearms too is the dependence of effective mass upon headshell weight. Even FR headshells vary from one to another type. So if you use a much lighter non-FR headshell the effe... | |
| Highest detail cartridges I sometimes envy your level of absolute certainty about your cartridges and what you are hearing. I on the other hand am always a skeptic. My point about the grado was precisely its age since manufacture, not its hours of use. My TLZ, which used... | |
| Arche Headshell and Technics 1200G Why would it not "work"? The only question to consider is whether the cartridge compliance matches well with the weight differential between the Arche and the OEM headshell. I would imagine that the Arche is a bit on the heavy side, so would wor... | |
| Highest detail cartridges Chakster, Based on your own observations, it would seem that there is a dissociation between low "moving mass" and high levels of "detail retrieval", the latter being a very subjective judgement that requires a consensus among many listeners to be... | |
| Highest detail cartridges Chakster, I am not sure why you are so obsessed with stylus tip mass, which should really be termed "moving mass", to indicate the total mass whose inertia needs to be overcome in order to start a transient, but in order of class, moving iron cart... |