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| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Raul or Dave, Can you send me a photo of your adapted B&O, via email? I am not sure I know exactly what you did. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Thanks for the tip, Raul. As you guessed, I have been so far reluctant to alter the B&O hardware, in case I want to sell. However, SS will make an adapter for ~$50. Maybe I'll buy one and mutilate that to get rid of connectors. I admit I a... | |
| Reed Muse 3C turntable You could try it both ways, but I would start with placing the bypass capacitance after the batteries and before the voltage regulator, if for no other reason than the fact that the relatively huge capacitance can play havoc with the output of a VR. | |
| Reed Muse 3C turntable Exlibris, Two thoughts on your battery power: (1) Strange and pointless as it may seem, you may hear an improvement if you bypass the battery or batteries at their output with large value capacitance. Try some huge value 16V electrolytics with th... | |
| The Palladian-A step beyond Chris, I would amend your "audiophilic rules" in one way: Audiophiles seek change, even when they ARE already happy.It's much like what Jerry Seinfeld said about the male propensity for channel surfing when watching TV: "Men don't want to know wha... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Raul, With my NOS B&O MMC1, in the same original box, there is an NOS B&O adapter which makes it possible to use the cartridge on non P-mount tonearms, like almost every tonearm except the ones made by B&O. The pins are very thin, whi... | |
| The Palladian-A step beyond As for me, as much as I love both of my audio systems, nothing does it quite like live music. So last night I went down to Blues Alley in Georgetown (DC) to catch the late show of the Cyrus Chestnut Trio. For those who don't know, Cyrus is a jaz... | |
| Question regarding the EAR 834P... Come to think of it, I do this too. I have two turntables set up in proximity to my Atma MP1, and I routinely switch the input cables to the phono section. The drawback is that you cannot casually switch back and forth. The DSA Phono2 is a grea... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Raul,At this point in time, I cannot say what cartridges sound "better" at 47K than at 100K, which anyway is a subjective judgement. But also, as we have been saying, it's an equation with many variables, including load capacitance. A given... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Forgot to mention that I agree with Fleib about loading an MM. It does not make sense to think that 100K would be optimal for all MMs, because there is variation in their inductance and other parameters, from one to the other. We know this just ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Fleib et al, My mistake regarding the compatibility of Pick and Stant styli.I think Raul raises a great point about the relative lack of stability and damping between the stylus assembly and the body of the cartridge that uniquely plagues MM cartr... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? bimista, I own both a Pickering XSV3000 and Stanton 881S mk2, also. I haven't looked at them in forever (in fact the 881S is NOS, and I've never opened the box since purchase), but as I recall, Stanton and Pickering stylus assemblies are not cros... | |
| Question regarding the EAR 834P... Pure speculation here, but if there is any money to spend, would it make sense to consider the iPhono2 (rave reviews and only $500) to replace the MF? You might be able to re-sell the MF for that much. Sorry for maybe changing the subject, but A... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dave and Chakster, In that case (optimal load = 100K and 80pF) , my memory of what I read in VE is indeed faulty. I’ve been listening to my Ruby at 47K with no added capacitance, lately through a Manley Steelhead, which I think has a hybrid cascod... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Chakster, We may be talking past each other. There is a semantic difference between "no ADDED capacitance" and "no capacitance". The former term might imply that there is no actual capacitor placed across the input, to "add" to the capacitance s... |