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| Step Up Transformers….Are they Worth the Trouble? The problem with current drive is that to have true current drive, the input impedance of the phono stage has to be zero, and that's not possible (because the signal would go to ground; in effect a mute switch). Atma-sphere made the interesting p... | |
| Advice on a recently purchased Maplenoll Athena Mijo, The hoses are because the Proscenium has an air bearing platter and an air bearing tonearm, which is an homage to Maple Knoll, even also including the lead platter, albeit the Proscenium platter is gigantic in size and mass compared to any M... | |
| Advice on a recently purchased Maplenoll Athena Sorry to hear about Pierre. I used to be a casual friend but had not seen him or heard from him for many years, much more than 3 years. Because of the public and private silence, I did suppose that he might have passed, which is why I used the eup... | |
| Advice on a recently purchased Maplenoll Athena You might contact Mapleshade Audio. Pierre Sprey of Mapleshade used to upgrade those TTs. I don’t know if Pierre is still active but I think the company still exists. | |
| Step Up Transformers….Are they Worth the Trouble? I think it's fair to say that Mijostyn is relating his own experience, as he plainly admits. His experience is with one current driven phono stage that he owns. So I would say that for him, for his phono stage, and for his selection of cartridge... | |
| Feel Silly Asking This Question Alignment Parameters I agree with all you say above, but I just wanted to point out that increasing (what I thought was EL but my in fact be P2S) from 222mm to 225mm has little effect on effective mass, which of course has nothing to do with alignment per se. If we ar... | |
| Garrard 301 - Project That thing (Tallboy) holds 350 LPs? Can you optionally configure it so the center section holds additional LPs, instead of a TT plus electronics? I assume you will not mount your Garrard on it; I hope. It does not look sturdy enough for a TT or ev... | |
| Feel Silly Asking This Question Alignment Parameters Dover, I’m not quite sure what the argument is really about but my calculations suggest that a change in EL from 222mm to 225mm would increase effective mass by only about 2%. | |
| Step Up Transformers….Are they Worth the Trouble? Every one of us would say the same. No surprise. | |
| Feel Silly Asking This Question Alignment Parameters I am struggling with ..."any given frequency has a shorter wavelength as the groove speed declines,...." That is from Mijo's post but he was only reiterating a quote from Raul. Frequency and wave length are inversely and constantly related, rega... | |
| Is this a bargain? Someone mentioned that the "pre-owned" sample at LP Gear was sold. Yes, without looking at the AT website, you have the ART7 and ART9, formally discontinued but still available if you look hard, the ART9Xa and 9Xi, the OC9XL, and the ART20, etc. ... | |
| Is this a bargain? How can one dream of the AT33 competing with the AT1000 without having auditioned both? AT make several LOMCs that lie on their product spectrum between the AT33 and the AT1000 in both cost and performance. Of course one is free to prefer the AT33... | |
| Feel Silly Asking This Question Alignment Parameters This is why I am an alignment nihilist and now very fond of an underhung tonearm that has no headshell offset angle (or significant skating force) to worry about. All that’s left to worry about is zenith error. Even a 1 or 2 degree error in zenith... | |
| Feel Silly Asking This Question Alignment Parameters Mac, I think you’re referring to adjusting the cartridge (not the tonearm) for zenith error, which is worth doing but has nothing to do with setting overhang. OTOH, Wally can probably advise on how to alter headshell offset and P2S, if you’re usin... | |
| Feel Silly Asking This Question Alignment Parameters I don’t think I explained it so much as I was trying to point out that if you change recommendation for overhang, you have to change other parameters like headshell offset and P2S, if you want your two null points to lie anywhere in the playing su... |