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| LCR phono stages we know about Dear Ghetto,Thanks for the information on the Steelhead. I wonder what they do via the MC inputs that bypasses the LCR corrector. I do know that the MC inputs feed autoformers, but I thought that was to alter input impedance only. There are a f... | |
| Time to choose: Baerwald, Lofgren, Stevenson ? Thom, The issue of doing the twist (Chubby Checker, where are you now that we need you?) has most to do with using Baerwald or Lofgren with a tonearm designed for Stevenson. This issue therefore only or mostly comes up with vintage tonearms of the... | |
| Time to choose: Baerwald, Lofgren, Stevenson ? Thom, I don't "view" it one or the other, either. But my recommendation is based on actual real life experience. At least one other person, reporting on Vinyl Engine, had the same experience. I would not argue that others who do it do not seem ... | |
| Using tube amp with electrostatic speakers. Stewart, I apologize for the tone of my remarks; I was feeling playful, and perhaps that came across as hostility, which was not my intent. It seems impossible to get my point across to the assemblage, which is simply to re-state that one should... | |
| Time to choose: Baerwald, Lofgren, Stevenson ? Here is my advice: Find out what geometry your tonearm was built for. (Headshell offset angle will vary according to the length of the tonearm and the geometry assumed by its designer.) Then use THAT geometry for THAT tonearm. Here is why: In a... | |
| Using tube amp with electrostatic speakers. Dear Stewart, You wrote, "There's no analogizing......and I know they're different (that's why they're not both called electrostatic)" Wrong! Your magneplanars and even ribbon tweeters are electromagnetic, not electrostatic. In your speakers, th... | |
| What is Technics thinking? Just returned from 2 weeks in Tokyo, where I visited Akihabara twice. The new 1200 was on display at several stores both small and large. Sorry I did not have the presence of mind to price it out, but it's available in Japan, at least. | |
| Using tube amp with electrostatic speakers. Dear Tim (Pryso), Let me help you with that. Stewart is full of baloney if he insists on analogizing a magneplanar type speaker with an ESL. They may both be "flat", but that's about where the similarity ends. The principles of their operation ... | |
| Using tube amp with electrostatic speakers. I think Al and I did allude to such issues. It is not the high frequency information per se, unless you are talking about RF, which is never good for any system, but how the load (the speaker) reacts to those frequencies in a way that then feeds ... | |
| Using tube amp with electrostatic speakers. I would only add one point to this discussion. It is folly to talk about "tube amplifiers" and "ESL"s in general terms, because each and every tube amplifier and each and every ESL in the marketplace has its own idiosyncrasies of design that stro... | |
| Kronos vs TW Acoustic Were I to be at all interested in any belt-drive turntable, the Kronos would be my choice. This is in no way meant to denigrate the TW Acoustics product. | |
| Vinyl and subwoofers It seems somewhat counter to logic to purchase a subwoofer that now requires a rumble filter. If you can "hear" the subwoofer operating during normal playback, that typically indicates the level is set too high; turn it down a bit and see if that... | |
| Do they make a quiet great sounding phono pre amp?? Nandric, How can you, the consummate logician, pose such a question, since likely no one of us has heard both pieces? | |
| Wave Kinetics NVS Reference Turntable Review on Positive Feedback Thanks for your responses, JTinn. I always wondered what it was about the platter/bearing assembly that dictated the fact that the two cannot be separated by the end-user (apparently) or for shipping purposes, at least. This is just owing to my ... | |
| Tube for a Noob ??? Like Noromance said, "tube" CDPs use tube in the audio section; as you might expect, decoding has to be done with chips in the digital domain. There are a few companies who make or made very excellent sounding CDPs with tube-based output stages. ... |