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| Ortofon carts are too hot for my phono preamp? This review at HFN says the Avid has an overload margin at MM inputs of 46mV. https://avidhifi.com/storage/uploads/cms/pdf/85/6345755481a21/2012%20HIFI%20NEWS%20PULSUS.pdf It’s not obvious to me that the phono stage per se is responsible for the... | |
| Develop a hierarchy for phono playback I hate this sort of thread, but I am bored. So, tonearm, phono stage, cartridge, wires cartridge to phono only, other ICs last. Why I hate this sort of thread: Any item in the chain can screw up the whole deal. My ranking assumes each item is at... | |
| Ortofon carts are too hot for my phono preamp? Bill, Not a good idea because of capacitance. Capacitance will cause a HF roll off probably before you notice a loss of gain. That’s throwing the baby out with the bathwater. "I just set inputs on the preamp to 2.8v - up from 2.0." What does th... | |
| Ortofon carts are too hot for my phono preamp? The Ortofon Black produces 5mV at a stylus velocity of 5 cm/sec. The Avid Pulsus phono stage provides 48db gain on its MM inputs. 48db gain is roughly a 250X voltage gain. So the output of the Pulsus would be about 1.25V. That per se is not goi... | |
| About Koetsu Rosewood Spearmint has great highs and deep bass, sounds better than Peppermint. Two well chewed sticks should do it. A quick check says that a nickel weighs about 5g. Neither a dime (unsurprisingly owing to its small size) nor a quarter weigh much more. ... | |
| About Koetsu Rosewood Serge, It would be a simple and very inexpensive matter to increase the effective mass of your Grace tonearm so as to better accommodate the Koetsu. Just add about 10g or so of mass in any form, to the headshell. If the added mass is on the head... | |
| Technics 1200G vs VPI Forever Model One All these technologies and all turntables marketed since, say, the early 60s, could be described as "old technology" re-packaged. | |
| Technics 1200G vs VPI Forever Model One Don't you think it has a lot to do with the fact that one company sells only turntables and tonearms and is based in New Jersey (I think) and the other is a small fraction of a huge conglomerate that sells products all over the world and is based ... | |
| Technics 1200G vs VPI Forever Model One Bill, I agree that your VTF problem, whatever is the cause, is regrettable, but it has to do with the tonearm, not the TT. So to say that your VPI TT is by comparison trouble free is apples to oranges. | |
| Audio Technica AT-ART1000X I really cannot agree with your line of reasoning, dispie. Given the fact that one can buy excellent gear on the "pre-owned" market and that prices are all over the place depending upon age and market obsessions with certain brands over others, th... | |
| Just about to pull the trigger on Pontus 15th ... +1 Ozzy62. | |
| What are the most balanced relatively neutral cartridges at each price level ? For level 4, the answer WAS Tranfiguration, now sadly defunct. The most tonally neutral LOMCs I ever heard. At level 1, Nagaoka MP500 is as good a choice as any other. | |
| Impedance Loading for SS Hyperion Dave, I hope I didn't claim to know exactly why inductance is the problem with using the SUT, only that it IS a problem. I did understand it has something to do with HF resonance, but I guess I left open the incorrect interpretation that it has t... | |
| JVC Victor Tonearm Counterweight Sag Repair I acquired my UA7 series tonearm as a piece of a QL10 ensemble, which I bought only to get my hands on the TT101 chassis. After I much modified the QL10 plinth and finally fixed my TT101, I am using it for my Koetsu Urushi. The very high mass Fid... | |
| JVC Victor Tonearm Counterweight Sag Repair First, I’m not the least bit angry about this, but why do you seem to be? In fact, I am grateful for your guidance. Especially since only you and I seem to care. What you fail to understand is that the photo on the right showing a bunch of black w... |