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| Help with Turntable/arm/cart decision How have you been playing LPs? Cover on or cover off? If cover has been on, take it off. If cover has been off, try with cover on, but I usually find that overall I like the sound best when the tt is naked, no cover. Others don't always agree, how... | |
| Help with Turntable/arm/cart decision Matt, I just read this thread from top to bottom. I also saw the "woofer pumping" thread, but did not read it in its entirety. However, I have to ask an obvious question: where is your tt located with respect to your speakers? (I am sure this ques... | |
| Carbon Fiber Brush with Milty Gun? Moonglum, Re your reference to the effect of electrostatic build-up on the cantilever, if one examines the cartridge in the area above and to the sides of the cantilever/stylus assembly, one can always see a local accumulation of dust or dirt, aft... | |
| List of Audio Tube Measured Noise Performance JJ invented the tube and is the only maker, so far as I know. So, yes, that's the brand I use. I typically run them at 5-6mA per section, but I also feel that is not necessarily optimal; a little more current probably would be better. I have been ... | |
| List of Audio Tube Measured Noise Performance Tavishdad, I find the ECC99 to be very useful in a variety of applications, partly or mostly because it has the same pin-out as do the 12AX7/AT7/AU7, etc, family, whilst having a much lower Rp and higher Gm than any of those do. I use it as a CCS ... | |
| Koetsu cartridges - what arms work? Soundbuff, By all reports that I have ever read, the Urushi acts as if it does have a very low compliance in that it "likes" tonearms with high effective mass. For example, many have written in these forums that the Fidelity Research FR64S and esp... | |
| Carbon Fiber Brush with Milty Gun? Just out of interest this weekend, I brushed an LP with my Audioquest Anti-static brush, (as I always do), then played it without having used the Zerostat on it (as I usually do). When I then went to remove the LP from the platter, there was detec... | |
| Van Den Hul what is the best cart ? IMO, there is nothing at all to be worried about with a VdH cartridge per se. However, the problem in recommending one vs another is that there are SO many variations on any of the basic themes. For example, there are at least a half dozen or more... | |
| Carbon Fiber Brush with Milty Gun? There is no aspect of the vinyl ritual about which I can't learn something new. Yes, I think you're supposed to zap the LP before mounting it on the platter, but I never bother to do that. So, if the spindle is soaking up ions, perhaps I am achiev... | |
| List of Audio Tube Measured Noise Performance Tavishdad, Thanks for pointing out the logical inconsistency in my generalization to the effect that "High gain tubes will tend to have more noise than those that afford less gain". After posting, I kind of wished I hadn't said that, for reasons y... | |
| Carbon Fiber Brush with Milty Gun? The last time I read about THE way to use the gun (after the brush, by the way), you squeeze and release a couple of times with the gun about 12 inches over the surface of the LP, taking care not to induce the gun to "click". Then, with the trigge... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Downunder, As the Krebs mod breaks in, the Mk3 pulls slightly ahead of the L07D. By the way, my L07D has never been a problem as far as getting it up and running. My lamenting has been in relation to the TT101. I've had two L07Ds and no problems w... | |
| Need recommendations on phono amp upgrade I just remembered that I may have one useful bit of info to contribute. I have heard the Coincident Statement and then the EMIA (mentioned by Mosin above) consecutively in the same system, at my neighbor's house. I am quite familiar with his syste... | |
| Need recommendations on phono amp upgrade Unfortunately, these threads (asking for phono stage recommendations from a list posted by the OP) generally lead off into nowhere, as responders tend to suggest some other phono stage not on the original list, which only complicates matters. My o... | |
| Synergistic Research PHT - Phono Transducer Qdrone, As I understand it, the "functional" unit of the PHT is a crystal that probably has been lying around in nature for eons. So, if it works, it probably works forever. Obviously, you may have to re-adjust the VTF of your tonearm to accommoda... |