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| Please Rate These Cartridges in Best Overall Order of Sonic Importance. Recommended Arms? Sixteen cartridges does not a neophyte make. | |
| Recent retip(canti also) Dude where did my soundstage width go Are you looking at one strand of a stranded wire, sticking out from the pin? That could cause a problem only if it is touching any of the other pins. If not, just take a fine wire cutter and snip it off. Or fold it so it cannot possibly contact ... | |
| Seeking arm suggestions for a Grace F9R The range of acceptable resonant frequency is generally taken to be 8 to 12 Hz, not 10 Hz on the nose. We'd be going even more nuts, if we sought an exact 10 Hz. At 7 Hz, I repeat, do you have a perceptible problem? Speaking of footfalls, if you... | |
| Seeking arm suggestions for a Grace F9R Robbie, Did you actually measure a resonant frequency of 7 Hz, or did you calculate it based on assumptions of compliance and effective mass? If the latter, and especially if you're really not having an audible problem with bass reproduction, I w... | |
| Please Rate These Cartridges in Best Overall Order of Sonic Importance. Recommended Arms? Dave, I like the one with the other body. | |
| Top 5 Tonearms Newer or Vintage Under 2500 That Will Beat anything above/below 2.5k? Nandric, In the context of my post where I tried to re-state Raul's critique of Vinny, I of course agree with Raul; Vinny's question was badly phrased. But I think Vinny is a "troll", from beginning to end. So, in that way, his question was well... | |
| Please Rate These Cartridges in Best Overall Order of Sonic Importance. Recommended Arms? Vinny, You need to work on your questions. However, you should thank Invictus for his response. He is absolutely sure that the right answer to any question has the acronym "SME" somewhere in it. Anyway, I actually think this might be your idea ... | |
| Top 5 Tonearms Newer or Vintage Under 2500 That Will Beat anything above/below 2.5k? I think Raul is trying to say that the tonearm, per se, does not create these specific sonic qualities, that the tonearm always has to be considered in concert with the cartridge. So, the better question is whether tonearm X can get the best poss... | |
| Top 5 Tonearms Newer or Vintage Under 2500 That Will Beat anything above/below 2.5k? Chakstr you must have misspoken when you wrote that the FR64 is best suited to light, high compliance cartridge s.to who ever wrote that silver was not made for audio, are you serious with that line of thought? Copper and silver are both conductor... | |
| Tube Question I've said all I can say. Good luck. | |
| Recent retip(canti also) Dude where did my soundstage width go fourwinds, with regard to your question of 04/06, I am not clear what you actually did. I had suggested aligning the cartridge for zero azimuth by eye only, ignoring the Foz reading. You could use a mirror or whatever sort of aid might help in t... | |
| Tube Question I thought of one way in which a tube could cause classic hum as I defined it above: If you have an AC filament supply and especially if you are powering Directly Heated Triodes (DHT), the AC on the filament, which is also the cathode in a DHT, can... | |
| Tube Question 2leftears, Most likely, it would be the ground scheme of the audio system itself and what is plugged into what receptacle and/or how any one piece of gear is grounded internally (some mix chassis ground with signal ground; some isolate one from th... | |
| Tube Question I guess you've chosen not to respond to my question about the source of the hum. If you don't know what's broken it will be difficult for a repair shop to fix it. If the problem is due to AC grounding in your system it may not exist when the unit ... | |
| Tube Question First, please clarify whether you are talking about a mechanical hum coming from the unit itself or a hum that is audible on your speakers. If it's a mechanical hum, I agree with the above two responders. You could try tightening down on screws ... |