lewm
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| Pani ... New ART-9 up and running ... There are many, many other phono stages (besides the JLTi) that also allow the user to tweak the resistive loading by one method or another. In my opinion, this is an essential feature of any "high end" phono. If one only wants to convert from a ... | |
| Adding mass to a tonearm As someone else wrote, adding mass to the headshell most certainly DOES increase the effective mass of the tonearm, by a factor roughly equal to the added mass, in grams. (As you move down the tonearm toward the pivot, the effect of adding mass at... | |
| Phono preamp power cable not long enough. New wall wart or use an extension cord? rhljazz, If what you say is true, have you had any second thoughts about the Shunyata? There's no technical reason why the Shunyata would not work well with a wall wart power supply or at least AS well as it works with any other component you plu... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? As someone who had his Grace Ruby rebuilt by SS with their OCL tip, I can attest that indeed the new stylus shape (or something else attendant to the rebuild) has made for a very noticeable improvement in the performance of the cartridge. For a "... | |
| 6922 Tubes! Wiki says that cryo treatment of "metals" occurs at temperatures less than -190 degrees C or -320 degrees F. N liquifies at -195 C/-320F. At temps below -210 C/-346 F, LN freezes.So, it does appear that the benefits of cryo treatment can be achi... | |
| 6922 Tubes! Geoff, Is your information about the putative benefits of refrigerator and home freezer temperatures based on real world direct experience or on what you have read elsewhere? Back when I did some reading on the physical effects of cryo treatment,... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Chakster, Your dissection of the lineage of Grace cartridges is very informative. Thank you for that. But you imply strongly that one can know how a cartridge will sound based on knowledge of its stylus shape. One would only wish this were... | |
| The Palladian-A step beyond Flieb, I wish I knew what you were trying to say in your comment on males v females. And then the attribution to Neobop. Is this something once written by Neobop?Dare I respond? No one said or says that males and females are precisely equal bio... | |
| Pani ... New ART-9 up and running ... I don't think my throwing one more set of subjective opinions into this mix would do anyone any good, least of all the OP. However, Chakster, because you've got a ZYX 4D, do not assume you know how a UNIverse sounds. I don't own and have not hea... | |
| Audio Note SUTs - Are they worth the money ? I am not sure that ALL Audio Note SUTs use silver-wired transformers. For those, you pay even bigger big bucks.A SUT or any other transformer, has no inherent impedance at all. Transformers merely reflect the impedances of whatever is attached to... | |
| Audio Note SUTs - Are they worth the money ? With the ART9, you don't need much additional voltage gain from the SUT in order to drive an MM phono stage, maybe 10X would be overkill, in fact. So, if you're interested in doing this in a scientific and cost-effective manner, so far as that is ... | |
| Fidelity Research FR-64 vs. FR-54 Raul, You just couldn't resist the dig about distortion-lovers, could you? Some day you may wake up and realize that your consciousness is not the only one in the universe. I hope that happens for you, soon. We are not all figments of your imagin... | |
| Fidelity Research FR-64 vs. FR-54 The DA307 is liked by many. So, my opinion about the damper may hold no water. On the other hand, the FR64S (don't know about the FR64, unless you meant to refer to the 64S) is liked and admired by even more audiophiles, Raul excluded. This is n... | |
| Fidelity Research FR-64 vs. FR-54 FR tonearms notwithstanding, I would point out that the Denon DA307 has a much different design flaw in and of itself: It has a flexible joint in the arm wand, interposed between the headshell and the pivot. I always thought this was a bad idea,... | |
| Phoenix Engineering Falcon and Eagle Slaw, I think the only issue would revolve around Phoenix's willingness or lack thereof to service products still in warranty. To back out of that pledge could be said to be "unethical"; I would say it's more in the area of "unprincipled". Some... |