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| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? I personally use other peoples' opinions only in the grossest way, as a guide to what I might NOT like. Which is why I usually don't even ask. This is because my brain already knows what it wants, and I've already spent decades taking my brain to ... | |
| Modified Lenco vs TW Raven Technics SP10 Mk3Kenwood L07DDenon DP80Victor TT101 | |
| Modified Lenco vs TW Raven Nantais does a great job with the base Lenco L75, for sure. But you might also consider other after-market Lenco modifiers. The DIY alternative is also pretty easy with the Lenco, because you can buy an excellent plinth, and all other stuff is mer... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Audie, There are many many things that could be done to upgrade a 7C. First of all, replace the selenium rectifiers with Schottky diodes, but in doing so, you need to be sure that the voltages don't change much. Then you can upgrade the filter cap... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Doron, I misunderstood. Some people like olives and some don't. That's cool. As for me, I have yet to hear any box speaker I could live with, knowing that I could also have what I do have as an alternative. (I don't use the term "panel" speaker, a... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Fleib, Never having heard one of these devices, I share your skepticism. However, Audpulse apparently has heard the 12AX7 version in his or some other person's Marantz 7C, and he's evidently impressed. That's all we've got to go on. Like you, I've... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Audie, My use of the word "illegal" was meant to be taken as humor. Nothing more than that.The device described on the website appears to be electrically identical to a 12AX7 tube (except I did not see a rating for "mu", which parameter best descr... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? The impedance of any ESL is a complex function of many factors, but basically an ESL can be viewed as a giant capacitor. Thus it will tend to have high impedance at low frequencies, and the impedance will tend to fall off at the very highest audio... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Holy cow! That's illegal! Perhaps the reason I could not find it under "12AXT" is the fact that its name is "12AX7-WS". What a clever idea. Has anyone besides Audpulse heard one of these devices? Based on specs, it should not give any more gain th... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Doron,I have always been curious about Joule OTLs, maybe because it's the only brand of OTL I've never owned or heard. I started with Futterman amplifiers in the 70s, owned many variants of the Futterman circuit, and now for the past 10-15 years h... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Follow-up: A Google search on "12AXT" brings up nada about any such device. I then tried searching on "12AXT tube", then "12AXT transistor", again with no result except a list of references to the "12AX7" vacuum tube that we all know about. Aud, w... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Audie, Is the 12AXT a vacuum tube or a solid state device? (If it has no filament, it MUST be solid state, actually.) If the latter, do you know for a fact that it can be dropped in a 7C to replace the 12AT7s or the 12AX7s? (I forget which tu... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Fleib, RS-A1 is also surface mount with no fasteners to the TT plinth surface. Thus you can (all too easily) move it back and forth with respect to the spindle, if you want to fiddle with where on the LP surface you will achieve tangency. The savi... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Fleib, I fear we are still on different pages. I am talking about how to mount an RS-A1. To do so, you aim it at the spindle and let the stylus fall about 21mm short of reaching the spindle. It is my belief that thus you will obtain tangency somew... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Audpulse, So far as I know, the phono stage in the Marantz 7C in completely original form IS MM-ready. There was no such thing as an MC cartridge back in its day. It probably does develop higher than average gain compared to a typical modern MM ph... |