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| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Nandric, If you are the buyer, why should the (German) seller hate the Paypal fees, if you presumably pay them? I only hate the fees when I am the buyer and have to pay them. In any case, the time is ripe for Paypal to have a competitor who charge... | |
| market value??? There are not enough of those around, the DP45F, specifically, to establish a "market value", so there really can be no answer to your question. In the end, I think your unit would sell faster than a unit that is sold with no guarantee of conditio... | |
| Sota Sapphire & Lenco 75.. Just to be more clear, when I wrote that the Lenco with everything properly adjusted but still in its stock box chassis would outperform the Sota Sapphire, I meant table vs table. IMO, the Lenco tonearm is best avoided. The Acos is a very good upg... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Raul,Do you mean to say that you hold 100K as a constant and vary only the added capacitance? That would be fine by me, but I was given to understand from certain posts by Dlaloum and Timeltel and perhaps others that there are cartridges that... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Nandric, I am sure that in some cases your analysis is accurate, as regards why US sellers (or German or wherever) may not want to sell to persons outside their own borders. But there are other perfectly understandable reasons for adopting su... | |
| Sota Sapphire & Lenco 75.. Sota if Lenco has original arm.Lenco if with Acos Lustre, a fine tonearm. IMO, even a stock Lenco in proper trim in stock chassis, with everything adjusted properly and working up to spec, will be superior to the Sota Sapphire. I own or have owned... | |
| MM Phono Input impedance change 47k to 100k ohms I fully agree with everyone else; there is nothing "wrong" with using a 47K load with the Grace or any other MM cartridge. (And, as I think I wrote above, I was not aware that Grace recommended a 100K load, if that is the case.) It's just a matter... | |
| Rabco SL-8E Tone Arm Dear Nicola, If I am wrong, then so be it. It was just a guess based on (i) the fact that both tonearms were invented by and originated from persons who resided in this geographical area (Maryland, near Washington, DC) by guys who must have known ... | |
| MM Phono Input impedance change 47k to 100k ohms I'm with Pryso, by the way. I installed a 100K load R in my MM-only phono stage with the eventual intention of installing a rotary switch so I can change the load R downward and/or add capacitance. The switch will optionally parallel another 100K ... | |
| Rabco SL-8E Tone Arm Nandric, I believe the "watchmaker" of whom you speak was Herb Papier, the eventual inventor of the Triplanar tonearm. I think Herb used to tell me of his adventures with the Rabco. The Rabco was invented and built here in the Washington, DC/Maryl... | |
| Trans Fi Salvation direct rim drive turntable Re the Resomat. When I first saw the photo, I realized that the idea is not new; Transcriptors used it a few decades ago. But the Transcriptors platter that I could remember (because I owned one), with the raised pucks to support the LP off the pl... | |
| TriPlanar Tips Thanks, Doug. I was feeling unappreciated due to not being credited for the loctite idea. (Did you know that autocorrect wanted to change "loctite" into "lactate"? Is there some cosmic significance to that?) We have brass doorknobs in our house, h... | |
| MM Phono Input impedance change 47k to 100k ohms OK. Now I know that Al actually uses 100K, too, and with a SS phono stage, whereas mine is tube-based. Actually, I never knew that there was any written statement from Grace to the effect that 100K is preferred; I am using 100K because that's the ... | |
| MM Phono Input impedance change 47k to 100k ohms FWIW, I have a Grace Ruby which I load at 100K, and I love that cartridge. However, I would not say that 47K is not also appropriate, only that I perceive no downside to using 100K. Now I have to go read Al's treatise on why he prefers 47K. | |
| Zesto Andros PS-1 Tubes 7316s are very good, if you must use a 12AU7 variant. Amperex BugleBoy ECC82s are the best of the true 12AU7s I have heard in my system. |