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| How good is the Artisan Fidelity Lenco 75?? Sorry. I am not directly familiar with the Joule OPS-1, but I have great respect for the designer. And it has a good rep. You might easily check on the value by searching for others that are for sale on the internet. That's what I would do bef... | |
| How good is the Artisan Fidelity Lenco 75?? My favorite LOMC is the ZYX UNIverse in any of its many versions. I think you can buy a low mileage UNIverse II for around $2K to $3K. But I also like many vintage MM and MI cartridges that cost quite a bit less. I am currently running an Audio... | |
| Fidelity Research FR-64x Chakster, You have to acquire something uses tubes for gain. Then you have to say here how much better it sounds than your SS stuff, just to piss off Raul. Seriously, Nelson Pass is one of the greats in modern audio design; I have long had curiosi... | |
| Let's talk cartrige loading. Perhaps Atma-sphere will chime in here. I think his basic message is that the optimum resistive load in the phono stage is essentially a reflection of the stability of the phono stage itself. If your phono stage can tolerate it, you're actually b... | |
| How good is the Artisan Fidelity Lenco 75?? Those should both be superb components. My only hesitation would be the price. Since AF turntables are costly, I assume your friend would like to recoup a large fraction of his investment, which is completely understandable. On the other hand, ... | |
| Seeking arm suggestions for a Grace F9R Robbie, No problem about misspelling my moniker. | |
| Phono Preamps with "balls" ? I own both a Manley Steelhead and the Atma-sphere MP1. They both have "balls", but the MP1 has the bigger cojones, IMO. As Ralph suggests, I am not only able to load my LOMCs at 47K into the MP1, but they really do sound best that way or certain... | |
| Koetsu cartridges - what arms work? Racedoc, This is in response to your post of 10-13-2017. Therefore, you may never see it. I am not sure exactly what Peter Ledermann may have told you regarding skating force and the Viv Float. But it most certainly does generate a skating forc... | |
| 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 ... |