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| Anyone try Synergistic Research PHT... JWPstayman, Pardon me, if I was incorrect in my assumption that the PHT is itself a tiny magnet. However, I did not make that up; I read it somewhere during my effort to research this product. If I am wrong, a thousand pardons.Now, as to your cont... | |
| Anyone try Synergistic Research PHT... Dev, According to the SR website, weight of the PHT = ".001 gm" = 1 mg.Thus there should be very little effect on tonearm effective mass and only a small adjustment of VTF is necessary after installation. I guess it "sticks" to the body of the car... | |
| Anyone try Synergistic Research PHT... Sbayne, I am not dismissing the PHT. In fact, I wrote above that since one can have a 30-day trial period, I'd support the decision to give it a shot. Glad your happy with the PHT; as I also said in my first post, I do know that others besides you... | |
| Anyone try Synergistic Research PHT... Zd542, The idea of observer (in this case "listener") bias is much older than this discussion. It has long been taken as a given in the design of any study that involves opinion or human judgement of any kind and that purports to be "scientific". ... | |
| Anyone try Synergistic Research PHT... I have read several glowing subjective "reviews" of this item, and I will predict that you will be swamped with similar. If you can arrange a "free home trial", it seems a reasonable thing to try. But I don't know any scientific evidence that supp... | |
| Modified Lenco vs TW Raven Dear Dork, After re-re-reading your quoted sentences, I finally get what you mean; you're referring to the horizontal part of the chassis, but I guess it's the platter that matters most. Sorry for my own misunderstanding of your intent. | |
| Modified Lenco vs TW Raven Dorkwad, I just re-read your post above, particularly the following passage: "Discovered that the motor housing was no parallel to the chassis because of the 6 springs that attach it to the chassis have to be in just the right spot. There are long... | |
| Rapid pulsing/ throbbing noise Are you near to anything with a switching power supply? Some circuits can pick up switching noise. Try the simple test of moving your phono stage and/or linestage/amplifier with respect to any other electronics in the room. If it gets worse or bet... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dover, Good point. The warning may simply relate to the possibility that the VTF will change if the vertical and horizontal parts of the arm are not plane parallel. That's no big deal to fix. In any case, I did ignore the warning and have tried ch... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? The issue with the OCL-modified Ruby is not so simple as to label it only "bright", a character that can indeed be tamed by adjusting VTA, in most cases. I would say there is more to it than that; but now it has been so long since I listened to it... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Fleib, You wrote, "Have you ever tried it with the sub arm not horizontal?" Yes, of course, that's what happens if you raise or lower the tower at the rear, which is easily done with the DV505 and one reason why I like the tonearm. I've tried it b... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Fleib, As noted, I was running my re-tipped Ruby into a 100K load (not 47K) with no added capacitance (meaning capacitance due to cable and Miller effect is probably in the 100 to 150pF range). Also as noted previously, I did try both raising and ... | |
| mono cartridge vs stereo Artmat, the cheap and dirty upgrade is to switch your preamplifier to "mono" mode. You will thereby gain most of the benefits associated with using a mono cartridge. If your preamp does not have a mono switch, mono can be derived from the stereo o... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Fleib, Please re-read my philosophical post. I say precisely what you say, Storyboy has a perfect right to hang out here as does anyone else. My point was that if he or anyone else finds the thread to be "pathetic", that person has the option of n... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Re Storyboy's Complaint.There are about a dozen guys who have been posting here for several years each. By now, I feel we form a "club" of sorts, where we can sit around in this ethereal meeting room and swap stories, ideas, opinions, even if the ... |