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| Trafomatic Audio Luna LCR phonostage Pani, I think I was misunderstood. I did not mean for my comments to imply that transformer-coupling cannot work well and sound great. My point was that using a SUT between a LOMC cartridge and a phono stage per se limits the impedance with which... | |
| Trafomatic Audio Luna LCR phonostage The Luna is an interesting product that I have not seen before. It must be a new model, because I had been intrigued by their earlier phono circuit which used a pentode as phono input tube, and RIAA correction was accomplished by a circuit locat... | |
| Durand Kairos vs Reed 3P : listening impressions I have experience with a Reed 2A (red cedar, 10.5") in my system and with a Talea2 in my neighbor's system. The design espoused by these two companies is quite similar and both owe a lot to the Triplanar, save for the use of wood for an arm wand,... | |
| Upgrade Opinions, Thorens vs VPI I don't get it. The first job of a turntable is to spin the LP at accurate speed and then to hold speed despite any effects of stylus drag, etc. What I don't get is how any turntable that fails noticeably (a big qualifier) in these tasks is accept... | |
| Do they make a quiet great sounding phono pre amp?? I vote keep what you have, now that you have solved the problem. Manley Chinook is excellent in and of itself. | |
| Nagaoka MP-500 cartridge Not gonna mention fjn's slur on MM cartridges. God help any product that sounds good; it will be accused of masking faults. But anyway, how is it that the MP200 would be superior to the MP500? As I understand it, the 500 is more expensive and w... | |
| What's the deal with idler turntables and do they have a place in modern HiFi? Pani, I think your generalization about light weight vs heavy weight platters is very much open to debate. One could just debate your point that light weight platters are a given in a "well designed" product, but is it really worth the trouble? ... | |
| What's the deal with idler turntables and do they have a place in modern HiFi? The "problem" with this hobby is that there are frequent instances where we have phenomenon A associated with physical fact B, and the natural human response to such coincidences is to ascribe A to B. But we almost never have good scientific expe... | |
| What Does a Cartridge Compliance/Tonearm Mass Mismatch Sound Like? Tom, I think the reason why you find Stringreen's metaphor a bit confusing is because, with all due respect to String, it IS a bit confused. I think possibly he is referring to an analogy between a high compliance cartridge and a lightweight, agil... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? I'll leave this to JP or someone else with more expertise, but I have to wonder whether using a power conditioner and not per se a step-down transformer could have anything to do with causing the hum that you perceive. Obviously, yours is a stand... | |
| Do they make a quiet great sounding phono pre amp?? Another way to deal with the ground loop without resorting to cheater plugs is to use a full wave bridge rectifier installed between chassis ground and audio ground, in either your preamp or phono stage, or both. You install it such that the diod... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Norm, A few questions:When you press your ear to the platter mat, I presume that the platter is not rotating. Correct? (It would be quite a trick to put your ear down on the mat with the platter up to speed.)The hum: is it a constant or intermitte... | |
| Do they make a quiet great sounding phono pre amp?? Matt, You really ought to take one or both of your troublesome phono stages to the home of an audiophile friend or to a local dealer, and listen to them on a completely different system. That way, you may figure out that the problem lies downstre... | |
| Do they make a quiet great sounding phono pre amp?? Raul, You've stimulated me to take my Klyne 6LX out of mothballs and give it a listen on my Beveridge speakers. I built a mega-oversize outboard PS for it, and Stan Klyne massaged the phono section only a few years ago. The only difference betwe... | |
| What is more accurate: magnetic anti-skating, or barrel weight attached a fishline? Andrei, Here is how I think of it: A conventional pivoted tonearm is always set up such that the stylus tip overhangs the spindle. Now think of the relationship between the tonearm, the radius of the LP (from stylus to spindle) and the pivot to s... |