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| Capacitance loading and fixed coil cartridges The need or lack of need for capacitance loading has nothing to do with cartridge output. However, MM cartridges sometimes do sound best (flattest frequency response) with some added capacitance between the signal carrying wire and ground, and MM ... | |
| Turntable help Phasecorrect, When you experience this issue, is the cue-ing lever in the "up" position, as it is when you use the cue-ing device to lift the stylus off the surface of the LP? If so, then when you swing the arm over to the arm rest, you should re... | |
| If NOS pre or power tubes became unavailable altogether, what new tubes would you buy? For what it's worth, the CV181 is NOT electrically equivalent to a 6SN7. If you replace a 6SN7 with a CV181, it is bound to sound different, because the CV181 is operating at a different part of its performance envelope. But people do it. Have ... | |
| Shunmook ebony weight owners Geoff, I agree with your underlying sentiment that it is unwise to disparage a tweak or a piece of audio equipment just because it is very expensive. I try not to do that. On the other hand, I do try to apply what knowledge I have of the relevan... | |
| My personal experience with Direct Drive versus Belt Drive Harold, Tape is not a new idea. Beyond that, I know some guys who then end up coating their tape drive with talcum or other stuff, to improve its frictional contact with the platter. I've also seen discussions of just exactly what kind of tape w... | |
| Lenco L75-S16 To answer your question, yes, the Lenco L75 is "still" desirable. Just go to Lenco Heaven and soak up the enthusiasm and the ever more creative ways in which guys have tweaked their L75s. There's no end to what you can do to it. Mine is in a 60... | |
| My personal experience with Direct Drive versus Belt Drive Harold, You never mentioned, until lately, that your rim drive is a Salvation. Vic's seems to be the best, by visual inspection of photographs, of the bunch. At least in part, I think this is because he started out from the beginning to design a... | |
| "Original Jazz Classics" Agree on the merit of OJCs. About 20 years ago, I purchased a slew of them because there was "a guy" who could get them cheap. Every one of those LPs has proven to be excellent. I also place the Milestone and Fantasy label even a bit above the O... | |
| Fidelity Research FR-64 vs. FR-54 Dear Raul, I read your post of 4:51 PM on March 19. In that post, you merely quote your earlier post. What am I supposed to take away from that? Your post prior to mine seemed to say that you match discrete transistors in order to create the ba... | |
| My personal experience with Direct Drive versus Belt Drive Harold, Theory is all I've got. I just look at how rim drives work, and I consider what might be good or bad about it. Rim drive itself seems to have come about as a band-aid available to belt-drive makers who feel pressure to offer an alternati... | |
| If NOS pre or power tubes became unavailable altogether, what new tubes would you buy? The very best 12AU7s I have heard in my system were supposedly selected 12AU7s that were made in China. I bought them from Billington in England, and they were "Billington Gold" class. The only drawback was a relatively short lifespan compared t... | |
| Fidelity Research FR-64 vs. FR-54 Raul, My source for the notion that you use the MAT02 in your preamplifier is.... you. You told me this in a personal email a few years ago. In the same email, you in effect congratulated me for choosing it. Or perhaps I misunderstood you; perha... | |
| Audio Technica ART9 sounds awful Just a last gasp: The source of a phase issue (one channel out of phase with the other), if there is a phase issue, need not be limited to the connections of the color-coded leads at the cartridge; it could be downstream at any junction. It coul... | |
| Fidelity Research FR-64 vs. FR-54 Raul, Did you read my post from 3 PM today? In that post, I acknowledged that solid state devices can be put to good use in audio. Yes, the quote from the IEEE is an old one; I may even have posted it once before. When I come down adamantly on the... | |
| My personal experience with Direct Drive versus Belt Drive Humans have inertia, too. Just like massive plinths. |