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| Fezz vs Raven If a tube glows red, it usually will fail very soon after and go dark, because dead. No fire. Tube glowing red is not any reason to avoid tube amplifiers. I don’t say it’s impossible (Pindac’s reference is to a guy who thought a tube LOOKED like i... | |
| Almost time to arm the Victor TT 101 Knoll, by the time I had my TT101 up and running, I had no energy for creating a new plinth, after having done that for Lenco, DP80, and SP10 mk3. | |
| Almost time to arm the Victor TT 101 As I wrote, what I did was to brace the OEM plinth with aluminum nearly covering the bottom with one inch thick pieces that I fixed to the plinth with heavy duty wood screws. This in addition to replacing the arm board. You can buy slabs of alu on... | |
| Why will no other turntable beat the EMT 927? At this point in time, the 927 is like Captain Ahab’s white whale. The one you might find may not bear all the sonic virtues of the one you are seeking, and it might bankrupt you nevertheless (not quite as bad as what happened to Ahab, I admit). | |
| Cartridge for Michell Gyro SE and SME 309 Be aware that MI cartridges do not always mate well with a step up transformer, if you are using a step up transformer. | |
| Straight tonearms without offset angle Mijostyn brings up the LT and the 5G pretty much EVERY time the Viv is mentioned. I have no argument; those may be superior to the Viv, but that’s not the point. As to the skating force generated by the Viv: it’s always going to be proportional to... | |
| Straight tonearms without offset angle Jason, you say you wouldn’t use the Viv because it violates well established design principles, and that’s fine. But you go on to say you own two pivoted overhung tonearms with headshell offset, which in and of itself dramatically enhances skating... | |
| It was the output tubes all along... Tube amps are generally not the best choice for any speaker with a nominal impedance of only 4 ohms. Not only is the impedance a problem but also such speakers tend to be relatively inefficient. However it is not correct to say as a general princi... | |
| Straight tonearms without offset angle IMHO, neither proposition is true. The distortions of different devices in the signal path are not necessarily additive, nor are they necessarily complementary. And if we’re talking about the Viv Float, it’s my impression as an owner that it intro... | |
| Almost time to arm the Victor TT 101 Any of the tonearms you mentioned would be fine, but I think the EPA100 is the best of them. At the very least, I would upgrade the tonearm mount board. Use the OEM board as a template and make a replica out of solid aluminum or panzer holz. In ad... | |
| VPI TNT 3 Agree with cleeds. It is never a good idea to place an internally suspended turntable on a suspended platform. The two systems are likely to interact badly, even causing oscillations that make things worse. If you are unhappy with the TNT footer... | |
| Resistive Loading RP-1 and Ania Pro “Too low” would tend to sound dull, and you’d sense there was less gain. You’d want to turn up the volume a bit. That effect becomes increasingly noticeable as you reduce the input impedance in relation to the internal impedance of the cartridge. | |
| HumminGuru Orbit Vinyl Record Static Remover bdp, I am not sure what you are getting at when you say "Handheld guns may be used on both sides of the LP, for instance immediately after cleaning and drying on a vacuum machine." It's fine to do that but one cannot assume the LP is going to be ... | |
| Resistive Loading RP-1 and Ania Pro Assuming "Ania Pro" is your cartridge, and that the recommendation is to load it at 100 ohms, and assuming "RP1" is a phono stage formerly set at 300 ohms input impedance and now set to 100 ohms input impedance, most likely it will make no signifi... | |
| HumminGuru Orbit Vinyl Record Static Remover Harpo, That device you bought may be fine, but an alarm bell was triggered when I read that it has a copper element that needs periodic cleaning. Devices that work to produce ions such that there is a metal element that periodically needs cleanin... |