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| Brinkmann Lagrange or Kuzma Stabi M Wouldn't the Kuzma Reference be on a similar plateau with LaGrange? LaGrange should trump the Stabi M, but I've never heard either. | |
| VPI Direct Drive Turntable Dreadhead, There are two parts to your "complaint": price and your certainty that direct-drive is inferior to belt-drive. As to price, it is your decision, not to spend $30,000. I wouldn't either. As to the mechanism of direct-drive operation, you... | |
| just an observation for comment IMO, in the end it's all about the quality of the original recording and transfer processes in the first instance. Nothing that comes after that can repair damage done at the origin of the recording. Thus, a re-issue of a sonically great LP will t... | |
| Can good IC's be used instead of dedicated phono's Salectric, It doesn't "figure". The gauge of the wire might make a difference, since any resistance in the ground wire would potentially allow the component to "float" at some tiny voltage above ground, which could potentiate hum, but otherwise, I... | |
| VPI Direct Drive Turntable Hilarious. Brilliant. Pointless. | |
| Can good IC's be used instead of dedicated phono's Al, But I would guess that the capacitance would be even lower if there were no shield. Which was my point, altho I probably should have been more explicit. Geometry is the major determinant of the IC capacitance, but shielding adds to it. I think... | |
| Can good IC's be used instead of dedicated phono's You can use any cable at all for starters. Then work backward. If you have noise with an unshielded cable, then you need a shield. If you have hum, you need to play with grounding. If you have high frequency loss or gain, you need to play with cap... | |
| Phono Stage Recommendation/ Advice It's possible that you are not getting a response due to the fact that no one knows anything about the two phono stages you want to choose between. Perhaps if you left your question open-ended, e.g., what phono stage goes with my system, you would... | |
| VPI Direct Drive Turntable The DD version probably is not 5-6 times "better" than the Classic 3. No one expects a linear relationship between cost and performance, I hope. Also, the fact that the two products look somewhat alike in photos is not necessarily meaningful. The ... | |
| SP-10 Mat Td, That's the first I have ever heard of a Boston Audio Mat being warped. Both my Mat1 and my Mat2 appear to the eye to be perfectly flat, and certainly there is no tell-tale sign of warpage when they are spinning. I trust your judgement, but be ... | |
| SP-10 Mat Chris, Have you considered that part of the possible benefit you perceive from copper or copper-containing mats is related to shielding of the cartridge from EMI radiated by the motor? I doubt this is much of an issue for the Mk3, with its massive... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Raul didn't respond, but thank you for the information on the Gyger styli, Nandric. After I posted I remembered that Expert in the UK makes the Paratrace stylus shape which they will NOT sell to another re-tipper. I got my story wrong. Or so I bel... | |
| has anyone else tried Lloyd Walkers latest tweak One effect of putting a crystal, or anything with mass, on a tonearm or cartridge is to alter the... mass. This can always be expected to have an effect of some kind. So, on that basis alone, no wonder it is common to hear a "difference". Has anyo... | |
| Record clamps: do they really make a difference. But I don't think there is "error" in bringing my system to be as accurate and "distortion"-free as possible while also being enjoyable to me. You ALWAYS assume that someone else's Nirvana is inferior to yours. That may not be so. Please stop twis... | |
| has anyone else tried Lloyd Walkers latest tweak Dover, You wrote, among many other things, "The piezoelectric properties of a quartz crystal make it usable as a resonator." With all due respect,and I do respect you, as I understand it, a quartz crystal (or any crystal) when energized by electri... |