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| Anyone Ever Figure Out Who Really Designs And Build the Kiseki Cartridges? Wow, Nandric. Your knowledge of this history is impressive. Would I be correct in now thinking that the old and new KP ought to be quite alike in terms of construction? Perhaps Mr. Van den Dungen was consternated that fate should have endowed him... | |
| Using tube amp with electrostatic speakers. I am fairly sure that the A1s would look like my 845PX with respect to impedance, which is "very high" up to 100Hz (50 to 100 ohms), then around 4-5 ohms up to around 1kHz to 2kHz where there is a sharp notch dip to 2 ohms or so, then back up to m... | |
| Anyone Ever Figure Out Who Really Designs And Build the Kiseki Cartridges? If it were me, I would only wonder whether there are any similarities between an "old" Kiseki Purpleheart and the new revival of the Purpleheart, with respect to construction and performance parameters, before investing. Chances are, the resemblan... | |
| Using tube amp with electrostatic speakers. It may seem that I am trying to avoid your actual question, but that is not the case, really. First, most transformer-coupled tube amplifiers provide a choice of 4, 8, or 16 ohm taps, not 2, 4 and 8 ohms. Second, the very low impedance at very h... | |
| Getting The Most Out Of A Koetsu Urushi Besides internal impedance/ resistance, the other determinant of what SUT to use is based on signal voltage output of the cartridge. Any MM stage worth its salt is quite happy with 4-5 mV signal voltage at its input. Since the Urushi output is ~... | |
| Cartridges: Complete Scam? When confronted with life's dilemma, one can always do the "uberwaltz" and forgeddaboudit, at least for a while.FWIW, I wouldn't go as low as 20 ohms, even WITH a SUT. But (Madavid) keep in mind that the "20 ohms" is the reflected load, in the ca... | |
| Lenco L75-S16 Gee, Scott. The thread is 7 months old. What are the odds that "autre" has not already sold his Lenco? Small, I would guess.But apart from being made in Italy, which might make the L75 S16 "rare" from a collectible point of view, how does that f... | |
| TriPlanar tonearm outward skating issue Pretty cool, Raul. I, and I am sure many others, will look forward to photos and further details about the design. I am fully in sympathy with you as regards the length of time needed for projects like this, when one is not really "in the busine... | |
| Getting The Most Out Of A Koetsu Urushi Dear Neon, If it sounded like I don't like SUTs, that was not intended. My point is that you don't need one. While "Bob" and Dertonearm (founder of an audio business in Germany that makes a humongous megabuck turntable, a tonearm, a headshell, a... | |
| CleanerVinyl-Ultrasonic record cleaner Peter, So you place the LPs on the apparatus that you cited in your first post into the bath that you have cited just above? What frequency is best (anyone)? This one is 42kHz. I have heard that 80kHz is perhaps better. But the most important ... | |
| Somehow I've got myself a "WTF" dilema with my newly setup Turntable. HELP! Typically, the choice of gain setting is made at the input side of a phono stage. Many/most that provide both MM and MC levels of gain provide corresponding "MM" and "MC" pairs of inputs. This makes sense, because in nearly all cases, the major ... | |
| Getting The Most Out Of A Koetsu Urushi Stringreen, Bob is a very reputable guy by all accounts I have read, I agree. But he does SELL step-up transformers. He would have to be a saint in order to provide a truly unbiased opinion. Anyway, the point is that the "right" answer is there... | |
| Listening impressions of two tonearm wires Robob, The problem you cite, regarding the difficulty associated with home trials, is one reason why I went heavily into DIY starting about 20 years ago. I make my own interconnects and AC cords, and it's very rewarding in the sense that I don't ... | |
| Momentus Footers Repair Needed Raul uses them, or used them, under the naked chassis of his SP10 Mk2 motor unit, which is not very heavy by itself. I agree; they are good feet.I don't know where you are located, but there are machinists in the US who are empathetic with audioph... | |
| Getting The Most Out Of A Koetsu Urushi Raul, who is known for the MM thread here, owns an 801 and really likes it. Perhaps he would be able to help with the specs. But there is also no harm in just listening to the combination of 801 and Urushi. It's quite likely to be just fine. Si... |