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| Yamamoto HSA-01 headshell/head amp My rationale for giving the HSA-01 a go in my system is purely to see how it works with the Ortofon MC2000, which puts out only 0.05mV at standard velocity. So far, the MC2000 works well with a head amp built for me by Dave Slagle, driving my much... | |
| Transfiguration Phoenix S cartridge - impedance loading recommendation? If the internal resistance of the Transfig is 2 ohms, not 1 ohm, you might be slightly better off setting the input impedance of the Accuphase to any number above 10 ohms. This is only because you want ideally the input Z to be at least 10X higher... | |
| Yamamoto HSA-01 headshell/head amp Dear Raul, you are an amazing historian of this hobby. I personally do not recall any similar product, but if you say it existed, I believe you. However, I would think that a modern iteration of the product would likely be superior to anything tha... | |
| New preamp or up grade my cartridge and or phono amp? These days, what we call a preamplifier is a linestage with a bunch of selectable inputs and optionally a balance, phase, or mono control. The linestage usually adds only a little gain to its input signal, which emanates from a phono stage, CDP, o... | |
| Yamamoto HSA-01 headshell/head amp Frequency response said to be 10-100kHz. It’s just a tiny gain stage. Within any high gain MC phono stage there is likely a single similar device adding gain at the input. So they’ve in effect surgically removed it and mounted it in the headshell ... | |
| Benz micro glider cartridge loading advice needed. If you read my last post carefully, you will see that on of my points is that although you may swap speaker leads, etc, to create a situation where the phase of the output signal from your preamplifier is the same as the phase of the input, that a... | |
| Benz micro glider cartridge loading advice needed. Here’s a way to think of it. No one is “using” phase inversion. It’s simply a fact that some gain topologies invert the phase of the incoming signal, and some don’t. Designers choose a gain topology based on their personal beliefs about how to rea... | |
| MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY? Theophole, is the Epoch II LZ9S a modern, current product? I own an NOS Stanton 981LZS and an NOS CS100, but I’ve never heard of “Epoch”. Thx. | |
| Benz micro glider cartridge loading advice needed. Your last bit about instruments vs vocals being out of phase with each other in a given track is something I didn’t dare mention for fear of scaring the OP. A good reason to just pick a polarity and live with it unless one has a preamp with a phas... | |
| Benz micro glider cartridge loading advice needed. I should have added that, for those who can hear differences in absolute phase, the optimal phase might be different for each LP, or even for different tracks on the same LP.This is why I’m grateful that with my dipolar ESLs, absolute phase makes ... | |
| Benz micro glider cartridge loading advice needed. Some gain stage topologies just naturally invert phase. Some don’t. You can judge for yourself by experiment in your own system whether that makes a difference to your listening pleasure. If you have no “phase” switch on your preamp, then just re... | |
| Benz micro glider cartridge loading advice needed. If you have or had the low output version then 100-200 ohms might suffice, because it would have lower inductance than any HOMC cartridge. But the OP has a high output version. | |
| Benz micro glider cartridge loading advice needed. In my systems, absolute phase makes no audible difference. But that’s a different discussion. | |
| Benz micro glider cartridge loading advice needed. 22K or 47K is fine. Set gain to suit yourself. | |
| Tonearm/Cart Matching Assistance - SAEC 407/23 Try looking up Sao win cartridge or take Raul‘s Word for it. He knows where of he speaks. |