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| How often, and how, do you clean your stylus? Johnny, all directions on using ME to clean a stylus say to just drop the cartridge on to the ME. Back and forth motion is verboten. So don’t worry about ME users like me occasionally. But microscopic examination of styli does reveal that ME can l... | |
| How often, and how, do you clean your stylus? Forgot to mention I also own an Audioquest “ultrasonic” cleaner. The same cleaner has been sold under different brand names for decades. I don’t use it routinely but I’ve found it to be very effective. And it’s not ultrasonic. It vibrates at aroun... | |
| How often, and how, do you clean your stylus? It’s as much or more of a bother to look at the stylus with a magnifier as it is to just routinely clean it without inspection. I do so with a Stylast brush (no fluid; just the dry brush) or with Magic Eraser or with a brush and fluid I bought in ... | |
| How Soon Do You Realize You Don't Like a Piece of Gear? By a flat frequency response, I think you mean very close adherence to the standard RIAA curve, which is not flat. Close tolerances with respect to RIAA are not an option; it's a requirement. | |
| How Soon Do You Realize You Don't Like a Piece of Gear? FWIW, In my opinion, it's not so much a matter of tubes v transistors; it's more to do with current vs voltage drive. I say this because I own one fully ss phonolinepreamp and one that is mostly tubes, albeit with a hybrid input stage. Both outpe... | |
| MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY? I looked for the Paradise on line. Found a thread that included many favorable opinions of 3- and 4-box versions. Seems to be a mix of SS and tube gain devices. Since it’s got tubes for gain, I doubt it operates based on current or transconductanc... | |
| How Soon Do You Realize You Don't Like a Piece of Gear? It’s unlikely you’ll change your mind over time. But for completeness, wait 50 hours. Then you will know for sure. | |
| Continued misadventures with Ortofon 2M carts Not every aftermarket headshell will mate properly with every tonearm that has a “standard” mount for a removable headshell. You could be running into that sort of mismatch, leading to new problems. It’s a matter of trial and error. Stick with the... | |
| Wonder product? And even extreme azimuth angles off 90 degrees does not have much effect on channel balance. (I’ve measured this.) More likely the Puffin can be set to operate like a Fozgometer. But I agree with Mijostyn, after years of trying to adjust azimuth e... | |
| step-down transformer You could in theory do that, but be mindful of the impedance transformation. If you used a 1:10 SUT, then you want your MC inputs to have ideally 470 ohms impedance, so that with the SUT hooked up backwards, the MM cartridge sees 47K ohms. I don'... | |
| Please Help. J. A. Michell Gyro SE - Speed Issue How is the belt going to cause this problem? | |
| MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY? I don't know or didn't know what a "transconductance" phono stage is, but I do know that the word "transconductance" has a specific definition, in that it is a measure of how voltage output changes with respect to current input, usually measured i... | |
| MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY? "Transconductance" = voltage mode amplification, the way you are using the term? | |
| MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY? dogberry, To the question posed in the first paragraph of your post, most of us would say "of course not". We each hear differently for reasons that have been belabored here many times over. At the same time, I would like to think that when we sa... | |
| Cartridge for Denon DP 3000 NE Raul, I am not absolutely certain, but in re-reading the OP, it seems to me you can't blame all the problems on an incompatibility between the Grado cartridge and the new Denon TT. Seems he had issues with other cartridges as well. Depends I guess... |