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| looking at upgrading my tonearm from a triplanar So, Audiotomb, it seems you need a Graham Phantom AND a Talea2 to cover all the bases, if you replace your TP. I own a TP and have heard the Talea on a neighbor's system with which I am intimately familiar. I cannot say the Talea is better than th... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? What are the measurable physical properties of lead that could support the contention that it is superior for a platter or whatever other use in audio, including making capacitors? Furthermore, what is one looking for in such properties? This cons... | |
| Any Herron VTPH-2 Phono Stage Owners out there? I do tend to wander off topic in my posts. Sorry. | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Yep...... | |
| Should I keep my Well tempered tonearm? Gvoth, You wrote, "I believe Firebaugh himself said the WT arm runs somewhat in underhang and might not conform to other alignment protractors." The only WT tonearm with which I am directly familiar is the WT Reference. That one has a fixed headsh... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Dover, I totally agree that it is wise to use a mat that approximates the weight of the OEM mat on a DD turntable with servo control. I have preached that gospel for years, but lots of folks ignore the principle and claim to be getting away with i... | |
| I just returned my second defective Manley Chinook Quicksilver, Herron, Manley. Three good companies that have been around for a long time and deserve our support. There's no need to be critical of any one of them in order to support either one of the others. Same is true in spades of K&K. | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Thanks for changing the subject from vituperation and the definition of an I-beam to mats, a subject we can all sink our teeth into, or not. Mats are crucial in determining the sonic character of a turntable, all other things being equal. Thus ine... | |
| Need a power cord for Garrard 301. Darkstar, I don't for a minute doubt your subjective impressions, but I can't figure out how a power cord on a belt drive tt (especially a belt drive) could "reduce noise", "increase soundstage", or make things "too bright". Stranger things are re... | |
| Any Herron VTPH-2 Phono Stage Owners out there? I agree. We're very fortunate in that regard.I recently found and purchased an Ortofon MC2000 cartridge. When I first auditioned it, I neglected to note that my Atma-sphere MP1 was set for a 47K load on the cartridge, which would never have been m... | |
| Phono stage w/automatic Load-Impedanance. All good points. Nevertheless, he wrote in favor of very extended bandwidth. I will try to find the quote; perhaps I mis-remembered. He might have been referring either to the linestage section of the RTP or to one of his amplifier designs. Anyway... | |
| Any Herron VTPH-2 Phono Stage Owners out there? Bdp24, OK, but Mr Herron did not originate the notion of un-loading MCs (by using a high value load resistor). Far from it. I doubt he would claim this idea for himself in the first place. Allen Wright (of Vacuum State), JCarr (Lyra), and Ralph Ka... | |
| Any Herron VTPH-2 Phono Stage Owners out there? Bpoletti and Rsrex, I stand corrected. I went to the Herron website, and I do see that the VTPH2 sports separate MM and MC inputs, plus the load at the MC input can be easily varied by using plug-in resistor modules. FWIW, I recently was rather su... | |
| Phono stage w/automatic Load-Impedanance. Allen Wright wrote in his Preamp Cookbook that he could hear the difference when his RTP phono stage was "rolled off" at 750,000 Hz, vs when he fixed the problem allowing it to go much higher in frequency. Of course, that kind of subjective statem... | |
| List of Audio Tube Measured Noise Performance I don't get this. Noise from tubes is in my experience a variable related to sampling, and of course high gain tubes will tend to have more noise those that afford less gain, when used in a gain stage. Then too, the circuit design is critical and ... |