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| Fidelity Research FR-64 vs. FR-54 I bow to your exclamation points!!!! | |
| Pani ... New ART-9 up and running ... I agree with sbank that the 17D to D3 series (I own a D3) has or did have a reputation for being a bit "clinical" sounding, which usually indicates a "rising top end". But I think we all have to be careful how we use the term I put in quotes. A... | |
| Lyra Kleos SL How are you measuring SRA? The way most people do it (by eyeballing a magnified photo), there is a large margin for error.When you say you "matched both channels" using the Foz with SRA = 96 degrees, what exactly do you mean? Did you match them f... | |
| SUTs and Resistive Loading Questions If you must use a SUT, you can either place a ~200R resistor on the primary side and no added resistance on the secondary side (47K only) or a ~43K resistor on the secondary side of the SUT, in parallel with 47K, to achieve a net 100R load. Howev... | |
| Pani ... New ART-9 up and running ... Also, it seems based on the appearance of the various graphs that in the case of the Lyra cartridges vs the Dynavector Karat 17D3, you are comparing measurements done at least two different ways; the Karat graph looks exactly like the package inse... | |
| Pani ... New ART-9 up and running ... Oregonpapa, Can you say how "Robert" is making those measurements? What equipment, what test LPs, what load resistance, etc? I am not necessarily a big fan of Lyra, but those reported deviations from flat response seem oddly extreme. Also, Raul... | |
| Fidelity Research FR-64 vs. FR-54 Andrew, I'll have what you're having. | |
| Fidelity Research FR-64 vs. FR-54 Reveal some data, Oh great one! | |
| Fidelity Research FR-64 vs. FR-54 Raul, For the Nth time, I am only saying that MY FR64S sounds very good in my second system, which is very low in distortion and includes mostly solid state components in the chain from cartridge to speakers. Not that I agree in any way with your... | |
| Pani ... New ART-9 up and running ... I have a great deal of respect for Joe Rasmussen and for Allen Wright before him. It is ironic to note that Allen espoused the idea of using a 47K load on LOMC cartridges (which I too have found go be worth trying). Now here we have Joe espousin... | |
| Pani ... New ART-9 up and running ... Chakster, Thanks for the response. The circuit looks very simple, which is good. I have no idea why they call it a "Diamond" transistor, but that's marketing-speak anyway.I wonder a little bit how they achieve two different gain profiles (one for... | |
| Pani ... New ART-9 up and running ... Dear Pani, My apologies. I knew full well that it is Chakster using the JLTi. That was just a bit of brain fade. Perhaps Chakster will respond to my question: What happens if you don't plug anything into the load jacks on the JLTi? Does it pres... | |
| Adding mass to a tonearm I tend to agree with Pryso. Look at the Technics EPA250 tonearm: The optional arm wands with lowest effective mass are all straight pipes with a tiny fixed headshell. The arm wand with high-ish effective mass is an S-shaped pipe with provision f... | |
| Pani ... New ART-9 up and running ... There are many, many other phono stages (besides the JLTi) that also allow the user to tweak the resistive loading by one method or another. In my opinion, this is an essential feature of any "high end" phono. If one only wants to convert from a ... | |
| Adding mass to a tonearm As someone else wrote, adding mass to the headshell most certainly DOES increase the effective mass of the tonearm, by a factor roughly equal to the added mass, in grams. (As you move down the tonearm toward the pivot, the effect of adding mass at... |