lewm
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| 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. | |
| High mass vs Low Mass Turntables - Sound difference? Avanti, On many counts, your analysis is not entirely correct. Without going through all the arguments, if you like belt-drive you want the pulley and the platter to be as similar in diameter as practical, and as close together, center to center,... | |
| Where is the significant point of diminishing returns on hi-end turntable? Tony, No thread is never-ending. (Figure that double-negative out.) It seems to me that the thread did reach a very reasonable conclusion in the form of posts by Atma-sphere and by the OP. Alma-sphere recommended the Technics SL1200G and the Tri... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Theophile, Please understand that the question of the gunmetal platter on a GT2000 or 2000X is not on my front burner, as I do not own any Yamaha turntable. Thus I confess only to being human and to having forgotten our previous discussion. In fac... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Theophile, OK.I wouldn't think of using that platter without the optional larger and heftier bearing assembly. Was that available for all 3 versions of the GT2000, as well? If so, then what is the big deal about the "X" designation, apart from t... |