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| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? I'll leave this to JP or someone else with more expertise, but I have to wonder whether using a power conditioner and not per se a step-down transformer could have anything to do with causing the hum that you perceive. Obviously, yours is a stand... | |
| Do they make a quiet great sounding phono pre amp?? Another way to deal with the ground loop without resorting to cheater plugs is to use a full wave bridge rectifier installed between chassis ground and audio ground, in either your preamp or phono stage, or both. You install it such that the diod... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Norm, A few questions:When you press your ear to the platter mat, I presume that the platter is not rotating. Correct? (It would be quite a trick to put your ear down on the mat with the platter up to speed.)The hum: is it a constant or intermitte... | |
| Do they make a quiet great sounding phono pre amp?? Matt, You really ought to take one or both of your troublesome phono stages to the home of an audiophile friend or to a local dealer, and listen to them on a completely different system. That way, you may figure out that the problem lies downstre... | |
| Do they make a quiet great sounding phono pre amp?? Raul, You've stimulated me to take my Klyne 6LX out of mothballs and give it a listen on my Beveridge speakers. I built a mega-oversize outboard PS for it, and Stan Klyne massaged the phono section only a few years ago. The only difference betwe... | |
| What is more accurate: magnetic anti-skating, or barrel weight attached a fishline? Andrei, Here is how I think of it: A conventional pivoted tonearm is always set up such that the stylus tip overhangs the spindle. Now think of the relationship between the tonearm, the radius of the LP (from stylus to spindle) and the pivot to s... | |
| Do they make a quiet great sounding phono pre amp?? I don't want to argue with Raul too much, because I do agree that a solid state phono stage has a better chance to be really dead quiet with very low output MCs (let's define that as 0.3mV and below), but it is also possible to get there with tube... | |
| What is Technics thinking? Bill Allen, Are you inferring that you actually cry-treated your entire SL1200GAE, or what? | |
| Ebony Denon DL 103. 50 years too late? Raymonda, To some degree, it could be said that you've discovered that an Ebony-bodied Denon DL103 is superior to a Benz Glider, even one with a ruby cantilever. To me, this is not surprising. I owned two consecutive iterations of the Glider bef... | |
| What is more accurate: magnetic anti-skating, or barrel weight attached a fishline? Dear Sunnyjim, Don't let this rambling discussion defer you from enjoying the wonders of music on LPs. Hang on to the first principles, with which everyone agrees: (1) Skating force varies due to predictable and unpredictable factors across the ... | |
| Why will no other turntable beat the EMT 927? Dear Thuchan, I have never seen an EMT 927 in the flesh or even up for sale anywhere in the USA. So, it is unlikely I will ever get the opportunity to hear one, let alone buy one. And then if you buy one, you need to know the right sorcerers (pro... | |
| What is more accurate: magnetic anti-skating, or barrel weight attached a fishline? Ralph, I am saying that when the cantilever/stylus is tangent to the groove, the friction force generated by the stylus to groove resistance has a vector directed tangent to the groove, too. But because the headshell is offset with respect to a s... | |
| Why will no other turntable beat the EMT 927? Nandric, That is a question I do not ask. If I continue to own them, it is because I like them. I was just pulling Thuchan's leg, a little. Do you have that metaphor in any of your many languages? | |
| Why will no other turntable beat the EMT 927? OK, so the suspense is killing me, Thuchan. WHY indeed will no other turntable beat the EMT 927? After 9 pages of responses, surely we must be closer to the answer, even if we are no closer to the question. | |
| What is more accurate: magnetic anti-skating, or barrel weight attached a fishline? Dear Ralph (Atma-sphere), I beg to differ slightly with your analysis. For a typical pivoted tonearm that is mounted such that the stylus overhangs the spindle and the headshell has an offset angle, there will always be some skating force, even a... |