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| The Shure V15 V with a Jico SAS/B stylus VS The Soundsmith Hyperion MR and Lyra Atlas SL I'm with Raul. I usually load both MMs and high output MIs at 100K ohms. I keep capacitance to a minimum (about 100pF or certainly no more than 200pF) in both cases. However, I know that some do prefer a resistive load lower than the standard 47... | |
| Turntable Hum And Channel Drop Star Sapphire has motor under the platter, I think. If so, problem could be EMI from the motor. Some cartridges are more sensitive than others, but I don’t know why the problem evolved from nothing at first. Try shielding the motor with even a pie... | |
| Pro-Ject Debut Carbon Turntable working on and off Either motor is dying (losing power) or like you say there’s friction somewhere that the motor only intermittently overcomes. But if records sound normal in terms of tempo, then I would either doubt friction hypothesis or look for an intermittent ... | |
| Anyone notice different amounts of surface noise with different arms? I had to he same thought as Raul, after reading that you hear no difference between analog and digital RIAA filtering, because you’re signal is in the digital domain AFTER RIAA correction. That added processing might obliterate differences that wo... | |
| Pro-Ject Debut Carbon Turntable working on and off For example, if the motor is running but platter is stationary, you might think there was a problem with the “belt”. Was that the case? If motor doesn’t run, then there’s no reason to suspect that the root cause of the platter not moving has to do... | |
| Pro-Ject Debut Carbon Turntable working on and off What made you think there was a problem with the “band” in the first place? | |
| critique my setup -- weak link? best way to improve? I am sorry, the audio “source” is analogous to the OL of a pro football team? | |
| The Shure V15 V with a Jico SAS/B stylus VS The Soundsmith Hyperion MR and Lyra Atlas SL ADC XLM and its siblings were very serious competitors with Shure in the mid 60s. I far preferred the XLM. | |
| The Shure V15 V with a Jico SAS/B stylus VS The Soundsmith Hyperion MR and Lyra Atlas SL What Russ said. At the risk of diverting the subject, I’d add ADC, Grace, and B&O, certain models of each brand. I owned a V15 Type III and quickly moved on from it. | |
| Isolation transformer question I found just messing around that feeding the ESL bias supplies from the lowest power PS Audio regenerator does make a small improvement in sonics. Years ago I tried 6 different power cords on my then SL M1 speakers (before I bought the present PX8... | |
| Isolation transformer question There’s no attempt in this discussion to distinguish among isolation transformers vs isolation transformers plus regulation and/or additional filtering using caps and inductors vs just a box of HD caps and inductors that filter only vs AC regenera... | |
| Anyone notice different amounts of surface noise with different arms? Do you mean “the same cartridge in different tonearms”? Such differences are not subtle even assuming the unlikely case of perfect alignment. This experience causes me to believe there is no such thing as a tonearm that adds nothing to the sound. | |
| Deciphering Integrated Specs - Step Up Matching The only data that might help to answer your many questions are in the section headed by”voltage gain”, and there are a few different possible interpretations of those data. However, I’d start with your SUTset to 1:12, not 1:24. You can always cho... | |
| Fezz vs Raven You’re engendering fear that is totally unjustified. I’ve been using tube amps and preamps for 45 years. I’ve repaired and upgraded them. Built a tube amp from scratch. Have read several volumes of tech info on tubes. Yes if there’s a fault in the... | |
| Fezz vs Raven In that case, beware of a lightning strike as well, although that’s more likely than a tube amp actually catching fire. |