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| Phono cartridge noises There is no reason to believe that an SS phono stage would be less sensitive to RFI. In fact, an SS stage is more likely to be MORE sensitive to RFI, because an SS stage will likely have a wider bandwidth, not that that extra bandwidth, for exampl... | |
| Experiences With The Ikeda Arms? Neon, if you run the FR64S, I highly recommend both the B60 and an arm board that has good energy dissipation. The B60 and the board help with mass damping. Properly set up, the FR64S can be very good. | |
| New preamp or up grade my cartridge and or phono amp? Soix, ehem. I don’t own a discrete linestage. All my preamplifiers contain phono sections. For that combo , you pay more. And none of them ( I have 3) cost me more than $4K, all purchased second hand. | |
| You can't afford a Lambo Veneno, so get this.. The long front overhang forward of the wheels is a design turnoff for me when I look at the 365 BB and its later iterations. And I bet that generates lift as well. | |
| Phono cartridge noises An in-line filter might not help much because it sounds like the problem is radiating from that tower. Shielding is needed. | |
| Do I Need A SUT There is no particular reason to worry that the attenuators need to be set differently for analog vs digital, unless you’re prone to forget to turn down the volume before switching from analog to digital and fear speaker damage. Otherwise I person... | |
| Phono cartridge noises Do you live in a city or suburbs? House or apartment? Are your phono cables shielded? Is your audio system on the same circuit with any appliances? Does day vs night make any difference? | |
| You can't afford a Lambo Veneno, so get this.. Many years ago, needless to say, I test drove a Miura that was for sale. It was an S version with 12,000 miles, and the price was $17,500!!!!! At high speed, the front end felt floaty, and that kind of frightened me. Everything else about the car ... | |
| Do I Need A SUT I am guessing you meant you’re setting the input impedance of the Stellar at 60 ohms, not 60 Hz. Also, I think the LTA is a single-ended device, so no matter what inputs or outputs you use going in to the LTA, the signal out of the LTA is SE | |
| Yamamoto HSA-01 headshell/head amp No it did not upset me, and I apologize for any sarcasm. I now see how you might have been confused, because the SPU cartridges are built into a headshell, whereas the Yamamoto headshell only has a gain stage built into it. You have to install you... | |
| You can't afford a Lambo Veneno, so get this.. I’ll take the Miura over the Veneno. | |
| Yamamoto HSA-01 headshell/head amp Stereo, you ask what you are missing. What have I written that has anything to do with an SPU, which cartridges are an Ortofon product? | |
| Do I Need A SUT To the best of my knowledge, the Stellar phono stage has more than adequate gain for your Ortofon Quintet (Stellar offers 44 to 56db gain via MM inputs; 60 to 72db gain via MC inputs). Furthermore the LTA linestage adds additional gain to the sign... | |
| Yamamoto HSA-01 headshell/head amp If you say so. But I personally would not call flat from 10Hz to 100kHz "limited". If you use -3db limits, then perhaps the bandwidth is much wider. | |
| Would you still pay $10k or more for a turntable not full analog front end these days ? I don't understand the controversy. Once the stream is picked up by the end device, it still has to traverse the output stage of the streamer in the home system. There is where one streamer can sound better than or surely different from another s... |