lewm
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| New Cartridge advice You might think about compliance as well as “weight”. A lightweight cartridge can have low compliance and would work best with a high effective mass tonearm. Conversely a heavyweight cartridge can have high compliance, etc. | |
| Audiomods Is A Great Company Mijo, That's a poor man's Dohmann. Where are you going to mount the Millenium motor? | |
| FEZZ audio If the channels can be paralleled, that would give 90W per side, which is overkill for your 92db speakers. But of course that depends upon what the efficiency curve of your speakers really looks like, and more power never hurts. (The 92db rating o... | |
| New Cartridge advice What Mijostyn said. | |
| FEZZ audio I just looked at the Fezz website. They apparently market almost a dozen different tube stereo amplifiers, some of them integrated amplifiers. Would you care to say which of their amplifiers you are thinking of buying? Not only are there many prod... | |
| Step Up Transformers….Are they Worth the Trouble? I am not sure, in fact I doubt, that the velocity of sound in the material used to construct the cantilever is necessarily directly proportional to the resulting audio sound quality, meaning "the faster the velocity of sound in the material, the m... | |
| Cartridge upgrade I did not know that the Voice cost as much as $3000. Since that is so, I could not recommend it as a cost-saving alternative to the Kiseki. Albeit, taken by itself, I take Mijostyn's word for its excellence. (I never heard one.) To the OP, if K... | |
| Cartridge upgrade I wonder why you are especially interested in Kiseki cartridges. Decades ago, the Kiseki brand was a significant player in high end audio and associated maybe with Sugano, who went on to Koetsu fame. I think in recent years the name has been co-op... | |
| Cartridge upgrade What other kind of advice is there? id say get a better cartridge but don’t spend $3400. There are many great cartridges out there for under $1500 that will handily outperform the Clearaudio. | |
| Anyone ever listened to a vintage Victor Laboratory X1 cartridge There was mention of that cartridge and related Victor cartridges on the long MM thread. I believe Raul has a favorable opinion. | |
| Step Up Transformers….Are they Worth the Trouble? IMO, it’s just silly to pre-judge a cartridge on the basis of the material used to make its cantilever. The idea of ranking cartridges based on the nature of the parts per se was already discussed at length. I know that no one went away with a cha... | |
| Step Up Transformers….Are they Worth the Trouble? Mulveling, I was surprised to read that the weight of the core of a SUT could per se be a positive virtue (the idea being more is better). I say this because it is my understanding that an air core is potentially lowest in distortion, when it com... | |
| SME 3009 II (improved) won't balance with Shure V15 III Maybe you can find a competent machinist (out in Rockville if you actually live in DC) who can shave some weight off that CW. Could be done while you wait in the shop. | |
| How do I remove a stuck Garrard 301 from its base? Is there a rubber profile around the perimeter of the chassis? If so , that may have dried out over time so it’s now adhered to the 301 chassis and to the wood cabinet. There’s no loss if you destroy that in the process of removal. As to the ... | |
| Step Up Transformers….Are they Worth the Trouble? Staying up all night doesn’t ameliorate the crap shoot nature of buying a new cartridge. |