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| Trafomatic Audio Luna LCR phonostage Pani, Also, prepare yourself for the onslaught of the Herron-lovers. There are many of them here, so many that I don’t doubt its excellence. Keep in mind that the Herron uses an "old fashioned" CR type of RIAA correction and no transformers in the... | |
| 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... |