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| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? JP hangs out here once in a while. Or else I think I have his email address. Or failing even that, he may have a website under Fidelis Analog. He's a very straightforward guy, so go for it.Found it: JP@fidelisanalog.com | |
| How good is the Obsidian plinth of Technics SP10 ? Shane, I strongly advise you to check out the Krebs mod for your Mk3, especially since you are a lot closer to Richard geographically than most of the rest of us. It really grows on you. | |
| How good is the Obsidian plinth of Technics SP10 ? Shane, That looks nice and simple. Is that a Thales tonearm? Has it displaced the Technics tonearm? Thanks. | |
| Tube Phono with Tube Integrated Amp? If you expand your horizons to consider used equipment, you'd be amazed at what you can acquire for $3K. Just take a look at the Audiogon listings. I do understand that many are not comfortable with purchasing expensive second hand merchandise. | |
| Tube Phono with Tube Integrated Amp? It wasn't you who attached a negative connotation to the use of FETs. As to tubes vs transistors, that's one of the oldest arguments in audio. But I don't think one should mix technologies with the expectation that out of that mixture one will ge... | |
| Tube Phono with Tube Integrated Amp? Jolly, Where do you read that it’s a "thing" to pair a tube preamplifier with a solid state amplifier? I’m just curious, because, as I pointed out, unless you know what you’re doing, it can actually be a bad "thing". If one wants to do it, one nee... | |
| How good is the Obsidian plinth of Technics SP10 ? Nandric, et al. If you want to take Raul’s testimony about the AT636, keep in mind that he recommended using them under the naked chassis of an SP10 MK2. No obsidian plinth; just set the chassis down on 3 or 4 AT636s. Raul and I went at each other... | |
| Tube Phono with Tube Integrated Amp? EDIT: In my post of 10:16 AM today, I wrote the following confusing sentence: "Ideally, the ratio between the output impedance of the driving stage should be around 10-fold lower than the input impedance of the amplifier." Obviously, the sentence ... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Chakster, Mark seems to have a "no-speed" problem, not an "off-speed" problem. His PD444 is dead. To paraphrase the Monte Python description of a dead parrot, it's an "un-turntable". | |
| Tube Phono with Tube Integrated Amp? "i've read on this forum that a tube phono is better paired with a solid state amp." I don't know where you read that, but on a technical level, the opposite is usually true; if you want both tubes and ss in the signal path, then you are better o... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Mark, Please see up the thread where I have mentioned many times the fact that JP Jones is good with these problematic gems. I don't know if JP ever worked on a PD444, but he is a fast learner, especially if you can dig up a schematic. JP posts ... | |
| How many LP's do you own? How long did it take? Like someone else wrote, I listen "regularly" to maybe 100 or 200 different LPs, where the term "regularly" may mean only once or twice per year. But I do delve into the shelves now and then to drag out an LP I may not have heard in a decade, and... | |
| How many LP's do you own? How long did it take? Here's a question: How many have estimated the number of LPs they own and then actually counted them, using any reasonable method such as LPs per foot of shelf space? I see that in 2012, I wrote here that I owned ~2000. Later on in 2012, I menti... | |
| Pani ... New ART-9 up and running ... Pani, Yes, I think there would be a sonic difference between those two alternative strategies. Ralph (Atma-sphere) posted on the subject of loading the primary side of the SUT, recently on the Analog thread, but I cannot recall where. In any cas... | |
| High Output MC Cartridge recommendations? I agree with WRM. High output MI, and MMs too, have generally sounded better in my system than any of several well regarded HOMC cartridges. I keep meaning to sell off the HOMCs but never get around to it. |