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| Can I use a SUT or head amp with my 60dB Coph Nia MC phono preamp? If you set the load resistance to 47K, there is no real reason you cannot use a SUT with your phono preamplifier, provided, as CLeeds mentions, the phono input will not be overloaded. However, I am not sure from what you’ve written that you really... | |
| Where is the significant point of diminishing returns on hi-end turntable? You're in good hands with Thom. You're better off taking his advice than trying to derive any useful information from the 80-odd disparate responses on this thread. | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Halcro was/is very clever at posting his photos on one of the on-line websites and then quoting the URL here. Others have done the same. Probably that is what we should do too. Or one could possibly put the photos on the System page here on Audi... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Dear Totem, I was unaware that you already own a TT101. One is enough for most of us. I bought mine in context with a QL10. Thus, I got a UA7045 plus the QL10 plinth, which probably has its own unique part number. Having already commissioned th... | |
| Where is the significant point of diminishing returns on hi-end turntable? Thoughts on Clearaudio turntables: Glitzy, over-priced, and no. Lots of chrome and lucite, if that's what you like. Walker or SP10 Mk3, far better, IMO.Before you buy a Wilson speaker, make the effort to hear one; they are available for audition... | |
| Time to choose: Baerwald, Lofgren, Stevenson ? Chakster, You might consider listening to the Victor tonearm in Lofgren for several weeks. Then re-align for Stevenson (only assuming that the Victor UA7045 is designed for Stevenson), and listen for another few weeks. Then decide which you pref... | |
| Using tube amp with electrostatic speakers. Well, we agree that the CLS IIz was best driven by an SS amplifier, and I added that this is because M-L were targeting such an audience and told me point blank that they were not interested in building a speaker for tube amplifier aficionados. | |
| Where is the significant point of diminishing returns on hi-end turntable? I hope you are relatively young, and I hope you have the wisdom to pretty much ignore all this advice. Except mine, of course. Start low and slow and listen carefully at each step in your system development. Add and then take away in order to g... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? So, Totem, are you going to take the plunge, or not? | |
| Using tube amp with electrostatic speakers. Bag, You wrote, " Firstly, I never owned any versons before the IIz, and only heard a friends I many times as he sought to find an amp to drive them - Jadis, ARC, Krell, yada yada - he sold them. The Scintilla's are the only speaker that was h... | |
| Time to choose: Baerwald, Lofgren, Stevenson ? Sampsa, Somewhere I have or had a hard copy. But I will also check my other computer to see if I have an e-copy. It's one of those almost laughable translations from the Japanese, but one can make sense of the main points. I see this problem wi... | |
| ...a second listen I like the (graphite) Boston Audio mats. Sadly, BA is out of the business of making mats. They do come up second hand from time to time and do not cost a mint. While it is a bit contrary to Atma-sphere's advice, I also like my SAEC SS300 metal m... | |
| Time to choose: Baerwald, Lofgren, Stevenson ? Sampsa (and Fleib), Just a few things:While it does appear from visual inspection that the headshell of the RS-A1 might rotate in order to maintain tangency to the groove, this actually does not happen, because the wires from the arm wand to the c... | |
| Using tube amp with electrostatic speakers. Arrrggghhh. Audioman, please read the earlier posts in this thread. You're preaching a certain kind of gospel put out by false industry prophets, but you're not speaking the truth. Think for yourself and do some reading, and most of all know th... | |
| If this sounds like YOUR Turntable story, please share your final chapter fjn, Do you perceive an internal contradiction in your lament? On the one hand you think there is something special about the WT, and on the other hand you also think it is the weak link. Can you say how these two positions are both tenable? I ... |