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| Curved and Straight Tonearms Raul, I respect your opinion, but I don't necessarily do everything as you would do it. For my 505, I do not use the Dyna spec; I use Stevenson. Stevenson allows the cartridge body to be parallel to the long axis of the headshell and seems to so... | |
| What's been your turntable ownership over the years? AR XATranscriptorsThorens TD125SOTA Star Sapphire III with vacuumNottingham Analog HyperspaceTechnics SP10 Mk2Denon DP80Lenco L75Kenwood L07DTechnics SP10 Mk3Victor TT101This is very rough chronological order since 1970. The last 5 on the list ar... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? I believe this is the second time that someone has cited that article in Audiocircle only to be reminded that all the principles are right here on this thread. I am the guy who gave Thuchan (aka Eckart) the chip for his TT101. I gave him two, in... | |
| Curved and Straight Tonearms One internet guru who refrains from posting here these days gave a qualified recommendation for Stevenson alignment, as follows: If your LPs are "vintage", meaning original pressings from the golden era of the late 50s and 60s, he saw a merit in u... | |
| Fm tuner I scanned through all of the above. No one mentioned my Luxman T110 tuner. Decades ago I went from a Marantz 10B to this Luxman, not because I expected it to outperform the Marantz but because it is great (enough) sounding and remains stable ove... | |
| Help me decide what to do with old tube amps Was that an OTL? Because I found mention of one OTL made under the Audionics brand name. I think the BA150 is it. My friend actually had one. | |
| Help me decide what to do with old tube amps I did some Googling. Is the Audionics amplifier tube type or solid state? Can you see a model number anywhere? | |
| Help me decide what to do with old tube amps Hafler preamp is of course no mystery.Neither is Audionics. I certainly recall the brand name. Can you post a photo? (This can be done by posting on photobucket or some other similar photo site and then providing the URL here.) | |
| garrard 301 and its' restorations Whatever it is that you are talking about, it is not "normal to idlers". Idlers can be judged by the very same criteria used to judge belt- and direct-drive turntables; the platter should never wobble visibly. At the micro level, probably no tur... | |
| Trying to setup new system for digital. Line Magnetic and Double impact speakers What's a "Tekton double impact"? Sounds like an energy booster drink. | |
| Bass distortion-Playing LP's only,,,,please help Krelldog, Better to move either your turntable or probably just one of your woofers (if they are separately housed). Though the rumble filter will probably do the job, it's another item in the signal path that probably you could get along without... | |
| Can stepup transformer be used with an MC phono stage? Your math is good, and I'd say go for it. But you might want to double check on the load resistor value. I do agree that the fact you have an RCA jack dedicated to adding an external load resistor suggests that the fixed value one is 47K. Or "op... | |
| Can stepup transformer be used with an MC phono stage? Let's see: You added to my information by guessing at the value of the input resistor installed in the OP's particular product. Your guess of 47K is one of the possibilities entertained in my post. After that, everything you wrote is in agreemen... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? JT, In memory of the late, great Johnny Carson, how "massive" is it? Which is to ask, what is the effective mass? Thanks. | |
| Can stepup transformer be used with an MC phono stage? To do this would be unusual in several ways. First, because you only need about a 2X gain in signal voltage to get where you need to be in terms of input sensitivity, whereas most SUTs operating into an MM phono stage are designed and built to yi... |