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| Phono cable recommendations - high performance good value cable If a cable is picking up "interference" that indicates you need a cable with better shielding. There might be no other problem with the cable you are using besides lack of adequate shielding. However, if you really do have "hum" at high volumes,... | |
| Koetsu cartridges - what arms work? Thanks, Raul. I got the idea that Koetsu's in general have very low compliance from what I have read on the internet, always a dangerous way to gather information. I ran my Urushi in a Triplanar, which is medium mass; it "worked" fine, but I've ... | |
| Shunmook ebony weight owners Actually, Wolf, having a guitar or two well placed in one's listening room, not to mention also something as massive as a piano, could do a lot to "tune" the room. Surely, your system would sound "different" if you pulled out the piano. This mak... | |
| Turntable help Now that my original hypothesis does not seem to be correct, I would opt for what someone else already wrote: The position in the vertical dimension of the cue-ing lever just needs to be re-adjusted. No biggie. | |
| AudioTechnica ART 9 users - break in, VTF/VTA and loading questions Pani, Using a 1:12 SUT into a typical MM phono stage, typically bearing a 47K load resistor, would result in the cartridge "seeing" around 325 ohms. Not that there is anything wrong with that. But how do you achieve the stated resistive load of "... | |
| Turntable help Dear Phasecorrect,Upgrading your cartridge is always a fun thing to do, but I don't see how it addresses the issue that you originally raised. Perhaps you have something in mind that you haven't mentioned here. | |
| Koetsu cartridges - what arms work? It's not at all hard to believe that the 1200GAE is an "audiophile" turntable, and for the Koetsu, which has low compliance, you would use a tonearm with high effective mass. How high? I would say start at 12-15 gm and go up from there. Some ha... | |
| Capacitance loading and fixed coil cartridges The need or lack of need for capacitance loading has nothing to do with cartridge output. However, MM cartridges sometimes do sound best (flattest frequency response) with some added capacitance between the signal carrying wire and ground, and MM ... | |
| Turntable help Phasecorrect, When you experience this issue, is the cue-ing lever in the "up" position, as it is when you use the cue-ing device to lift the stylus off the surface of the LP? If so, then when you swing the arm over to the arm rest, you should re... | |
| If NOS pre or power tubes became unavailable altogether, what new tubes would you buy? For what it's worth, the CV181 is NOT electrically equivalent to a 6SN7. If you replace a 6SN7 with a CV181, it is bound to sound different, because the CV181 is operating at a different part of its performance envelope. But people do it. Have ... | |
| Shunmook ebony weight owners Geoff, I agree with your underlying sentiment that it is unwise to disparage a tweak or a piece of audio equipment just because it is very expensive. I try not to do that. On the other hand, I do try to apply what knowledge I have of the relevan... | |
| My personal experience with Direct Drive versus Belt Drive Harold, Tape is not a new idea. Beyond that, I know some guys who then end up coating their tape drive with talcum or other stuff, to improve its frictional contact with the platter. I've also seen discussions of just exactly what kind of tape w... | |
| Lenco L75-S16 To answer your question, yes, the Lenco L75 is "still" desirable. Just go to Lenco Heaven and soak up the enthusiasm and the ever more creative ways in which guys have tweaked their L75s. There's no end to what you can do to it. Mine is in a 60... | |
| My personal experience with Direct Drive versus Belt Drive Harold, You never mentioned, until lately, that your rim drive is a Salvation. Vic's seems to be the best, by visual inspection of photographs, of the bunch. At least in part, I think this is because he started out from the beginning to design a... | |
| "Original Jazz Classics" Agree on the merit of OJCs. About 20 years ago, I purchased a slew of them because there was "a guy" who could get them cheap. Every one of those LPs has proven to be excellent. I also place the Milestone and Fantasy label even a bit above the O... |