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| MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY? Raul, I’ve never heard the Hyperion, but to be fair an error of +/-1db, as quoted for it, does not allow for 2db of error at any single frequency, as I’m sure you know. Furthermore the Hyperion excels at channel separation and at a few other stand... | |
| Issue with balanced connection between Schiit Skol Phono and Thorens TD-1601 This an easy fix but hard to unravel without knowing more about the Schiit gear. My guess is that the wiring between TT and phono is set up for SE operation such that the negative phase of balanced is seeing ground. This is assuming the schiit gea... | |
| MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY? I'm headed to Tokyo tomorrow morning, so no vinyl for about 3 weeks, for me. | |
| SUT help Different SUTs apparently can sound different from one another, even when they are the same with respect to turns ratio (i.e., the amount of voltage gain added). This can be due to the nature of the core material (the transformer wire is wound ar... | |
| SUT help I watched the video. The SPU 1 cartridge puts out 0.18mV, by a very liberal criterion of 5mV/cm stylus velocity. The JC3+ affords 64db total gain on MC. Could be that the amplified output of the JC3+ is not quite enough to get the most out of the ... | |
| Thorens PSU124 I have yet to encounter a belt- or idler-drive turntable whose aural performance was not enhanced by the addition of an outboard PS/speed controller, even though every other thing that Elliot says rings true to me. The addition of a competent PS u... | |
| MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY? I've got an NOS Empire 4000D3, too, bought during the heyday of the MM cartridge thread, after it was announced that some vendor had a supply of them. I must say until now I did not know it was an MI type. Nor do I think I knew that Azden was MI.... | |
| MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY? Thanks, Raul. Joseph is a good guy. I’ll contact him. I actually have an extra stylus assembly in which the metal structure along with cantilever and stylus have come unglued from the brown plastic yoke that supports them. Last night I looked at b... | |
| Technics Turntables...really??? It would be better to post substantive comments on Technics TTs, than to rely on sarcasm. Say why you don’t like them. Like why did you get a divorce? Most DJs don’t even use TT s any more, when you can even find a DJ. You need to do better than t... | |
| Technics Turntables...really??? jymc apparently was frightened by a Technics turntable as a youth. I wouldn't take him too seriously. He hits and runs. | |
| MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY? Forgot to add, anyone who has had work done successfully on an Astatic or Glanz cartridge, please share. (My reading suggests that Glanz MFG types are similar in design and function to Astatic MF types, and possibly that both of these moving flux ... | |
| MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY? I found a business in CA that stocks lots of NLA transistors, both NPN and PNP. I bought both types from them when I was trying to get my Beveridge direct-drive amplifiers up and running, which I finally did do. Contact "Jameson Electronics". I... | |
| MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY? I think JLTi is single-ended and all solid state. (Yes?) AW used an FET in his FVP5, which is also SE but tube based. The MAT02 and other similar bipolar was used in his RTP3C, which was his TOTL and balanced. It’s all in his “Preamp Cook Book”, i... | |
| Turntable upgrade recommendations: SME vs AMG vs Technics vs other What is it that you object to so strenuously? The flippancy or the content of the opinion expressed by arcticdeth, 17 months ago? (Addressed to jymc, not dogberry.) | |
| MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY? Terry, my expertise with solid state is not very high. And my interests run toward learning about gain stages. But suffice to say that I followed advice from the late Allen Wright in his "Tube Preamp Cookbook", to learn how to build a balanced, ... |