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| GLANZ MFG 610LX Could it have been frozen in the arctic tundra, next to a Wooly Mammoth? Another victim of climate change? Perhaps the cold temperatures preserved it as new. | |
| When is it time to consider adding a SUT? andrei, I have to disagree with your statement that adding a SUT is not equivalent to adding another component, although you do make a good point that phono stages with enough gain for a low output MC usually use an internal gain stage to boost th... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Dear Audiolabyrinth, No, I have never owned a Technics SL1600 or any others in the SL1200 lineage. But I also don't try to match cartridges with turntables. What counts is the effective mass of your tonearm. Read up on tonearm effective mass and... | |
| Adding mass to a tonearm Kombi, I think you can find the consensus of opinions by reading the above posts. If you want to save money, of course you can just add mass to the headshell. (There's no law of man or audio against doing that.) Raul and others mentioned the pos... | |
| ZYX Ultimate with carbon fiber cantilevers -- listener reviews? emailists, That is indeed remarkable longevity for a stylus. Is there anything special about a strain gauge design that would reduce wear on the stylus? I can't think of a reason related to the technology per se. | |
| When is it time to consider adding a SUT? I agree with audio_d. Why add a component, along with ICs and connectors, in the signal path of a cartridge with a very low output voltage, when that is completely unnecessary? But should you insist upon doing it, you would run the output from t... | |
| ZYX Ultimate with carbon fiber cantilevers -- listener reviews? Vindanpar, "Nice", I can understand when applied to a pair of shoes, but "astounding"? Nah. Ferrari's can be astounding but not shoes to wear while driving them. I don't think the price of a Rembrandt is analogous to the price of a high end cart... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? audiolabyrinth, The cartridge to which you refer could be that Ortofon mentioned by Chakster (I think) or it could also be an Acutex LPM series. Pickering made some cartridges that resemble the nose of the Concorde, as well. I suppose many other... | |
| ZYX Ultimate with carbon fiber cantilevers -- listener reviews? thaluza, Mea culpa. Without having searched for Doug's review of the 4D (Atmos) vs the Uni, I do believe you are correct, in essence. Your description of his review does ring a bell, now you mention it. | |
| ZYX Ultimate with carbon fiber cantilevers -- listener reviews? JollyT, You've got the experience of actually listening to the Universe line in your system. So, I am in no position to doubt what you say. If the Uni II and the Uni Premium are progressively better than the original Uni, then I guess I have som... | |
| ZYX Ultimate with carbon fiber cantilevers -- listener reviews? Unchilled, I am currently listening to a Universe that I bought with only 10-20 hours on it for only $2000. Such bargains are out there if you are patient; this one was on Audiogon, and I am a longtime friend of the seller, albeit we live about 1... | |
| SP10 Mk II vs Mk III slarty, That seems like a good idea. How did you do it? I imagine you could just disconnect them from their supply voltage. Then the strobe goes dark, does it not? | |
| ZYX Ultimate with carbon fiber cantilevers -- listener reviews? Ha-ha-ha. We yearn for a review, so we can dump on it. The audiophile version of Catch-22. My neighbor up the street owns a Uni Premium. I have yet to hear it, but it was in his system that I first heard the "plain" original Universe, several ... | |
| Allnic H-1201 Cartridge loading? Louis, You’ve got the right idea, for MC, but the wrong correspondence between db of gain and resistance. The values are stated in reverse order in the review, gain vs resistance. I think it would be as follows:62 db gain = 278 Ohms = 13X gain66 d... | |
| Allnic H-1201 Cartridge loading? From a review:"The voltage gain of the MC section is variable, as it’s able to be switched between an indicated 22dB, 26dB, 28dB and 32dB. However, because the MC section includes a fixed gain stage with a voltage gain of 40dB, the actual gains ar... |