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| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Don, With all respect as our professor, your statement "You can not truly wire a phono cartridge to the phono stage in a truly balanced mode" is not correct. Cartridges are inherently balanced devices, except for some rare exceptions like som... | |
| How to increase the gain on a preamp What Onhwy61 said. | |
| Inner groove "Rumble" "staccato-like popping" Can you guess in what frequency range? Rumble is very low frequency stuff, as the name suggests. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Don and Dent, I am very puzzled by Victor's statement as you (Don) report it. This seems contrary to the very raison d'etre of a company calling itself "Balanced" Audio Technology. Without having researched the VK10, I too would assume it has... | |
| Galibier Teres Redpoint tape drive "LENGTH"? Doug Deacon is the font of wisdom and experience in this area, other than perhaps the maker of your turntable. | |
| Question on FR 66s I am privately wondering how one can cite the true pivot of the FR tonearms to an accuracy of 0.5mm, since the top of the bearing housing is a flat circular plane, IIRC. (The FR64S is not in front of me as I write this.) So, you need a REALLY good... | |
| Best vintage or modern tonearms for Denon DP 80 The Victor is a "steal" among vintage Japanese tonearms at its current cost, IMO. I use a Dynavector DV505 with several different MM and MI cartridges, including the Grace Ruby, very happily on my DP80 and on my Lenco, FWIW. | |
| Inner groove "Rumble" A la Casey's good idea, this speaks also to the question of whether you are hearing "rumble" or "hum". The power amp transformer could induce hum, not rumble. | |
| Question on FR 66s Dear Dover, I am well aware that one can "twist" the cartridge in the headshell to obtain a non-standard offset angle. I suppose I should have acknowledged that possibility in my post to Henry. In fact, that's what one has to do, in order to use D... | |
| Inner groove "Rumble" Dear Adam, I haven't a clue. Typical reasons for what you are hearing are that some cartridges can pick up EMI from some turntable motors. Thus, as the cartridge nears the center of the LP, it gets closer and closer to the motor until at some poin... | |
| Question on FR 66s Dear Henry, I've got my answer. No worries. | |
| Best vintage or modern tonearms for Denon DP 80 For under $3000, the choice is VERY wide for excellent tonearms. There is almost nothing you cannot consider at that price or under, if you are willing to purchase second hand. Further, the tonearm is best mated to the cartridge, rather than to th... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dentdog, FYI, Rhea is not balanced. Io is balanced. That's one of the major reasons for the far higher cost of the latter. This is not to say that the Rhea is not a fine sounding phono stage. I have noticed, however, that a lot of companies blow s... | |
| Question on FR 66s Dear Henry, I am a bit puzzled about a recommendation for a specific headshell offset angle to go along with the recommended P2S distance and overhang for the 64S. In the case of headshell offset angle, isn't one "stuck" with the built-in angle? I... | |
| Inner groove "Rumble" Marakantz, With much respect, your last statement is a doozy (not a Deusie). Can you say why that would be? Would you say that the converse is true: a new phono stage is less sensitive to rumble? I don't think so. But it does follow from your prem... |