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| EMT direct drive and Technics SP-10 opinions? Like I said, I would guess it's rare to find an audiophile who has experience with EMT of any sort, let alone the EMT direct-drive turntables. But you do seem to know such a one, Mike Lavigne. Mike probably has a wider experience, especially with ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Mapman, Magnets that are more powerful per unit of mass are always nice, but the upshot is usually more output, not necessarily better sound. Or in the case of MC cartridges, you can maintain a useable output whilst reducing the number of turns in... | |
| EMT direct drive and Technics SP-10 opinions? If the SP10 is a "project", then you really cannot know whether it holds pitch on piano music (which any good one will do), unless or until you fully repair or rehab it.Still, you can probably parlay your TT holdings into another new Redpoint/Tere... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? I liked the Ambrose Bierce metaphor, too. How many people know who he was and why he is important? Not many. But Ambrose Bierce disappeared into Mexico. Surely Raul has not disappeared into the USA.Bierce would have skewered all of us for spending... | |
| EMT direct drive and Technics SP-10 opinions? Whatever its other flaws may be, if your SP10 mk2 cannot hold pitch with piano music, it's not working properly. Have you had it serviced since you bought it, or do you know whether it was serviced prior to your purchase? Proper service should inc... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Nandric, The only time I felt that Raul was "insulted" in a way that was inappropriate to our usual civil discussions was during one of his many encounters with one of the Germans. During one of those encounters, I felt there was a borderline... | |
| What's your experience with fine phono preamp s ? Dear Almarg, You are correct, Emia has gain sufficient for high output cartridges only. However, it is no accident that Dave Slagle is involved with this product. The company markets SUTs designed by Dave to go well with the Emia. I don't know wha... | |
| Phono stage matching - how critical Dear Bpoletti, What you write is true in principle but is hardly ever a problem in practice. Nearly any worthy SS linestage will offer at least 10K ohm input impedance, and nearly any tube phono stage will offer an output Z of less than 2K ohms. U... | |
| Phono stage matching - how critical What they all said. Contrary to Mesch's opinion, I prefer MM and MI cartridges, as a class, to HOMC cartridges, as a class. In fact, I once owned two successive versions of the Benz Glider myself. I find that any of the better MM/MI cartridges are... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Nandric, I think Acman has a point. He was not making jokes about Raul. To your point about the money Raul spent on cartridges. No one ever in history has done more to increase the cost of good vintage cartridges than Raul. When Raul amassed ... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? I forgot to add that we replaced nearly all the original transistors, as well, since some of them have a reputation for having been unreliable. We used modern equivalents that have a better track record. | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Pbn, My unit has been completely refurbished electronically. Even the very rare IC that runs everything has been replaced. (I found a source in Hong Kong.) However, we did not make an attempt to "upgrade" anything, except probably the diodes. It s... | |
| mono cartridge vs stereo Actually, I was wrong in my post above this one. The two Y-adapters would feed the 2-channel output of the stereo cartridge to the phono stage in parallel. This would alter the impedance relationship between the cartridge and the phono stage that ... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Peter, THAT is so cool I am going to ask PBN if they can mount my DP80 in their plinth. A two-armed version would do nicely. | |
| mono cartridge vs stereo Peter, The way I see it, you would have to use two Y-adapters back to back, as you suggest, to use a stereo preamp to play a mono LP in mono with a stereo cartridge. Such a set-up would put you in about the same place as a "mono" switch on your pr... |