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| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Raul, You make a good point; I have no idea either why fuses on the AC line make such a difference, but "silver" and "cryo" are part of the audiophile mantra. We believe in those twin gods, don't we? What's even crazier, not to say much crazi... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Fuses are generally used for good safety reasons. To bypass a fuse with a wire, silver or otherwise, requires some solid knowledge of what you are doing and the possible negative consequences. Sometimes, it can be done safely. Most of the time, no... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? To you guys and any other BAT amplifier users, I have six matched pairs of NOS 6C33Cs, selected by and purchased from Victor Khomenko of BAT, himself, about 10 years ago. They are available for sale. I originally bought them, because my own Atma-s... | |
| Help: Replacement Caps Advise Sounds like you need an electrolytic capacitor, all of which are polar, as Jallen infers. Very good ones include very large ones made by Mundorf (which may in fact be nonpolar; I forget) and more reasonable size polar ones made by Panasonic (TS-ED... | |
| Micro Seiki, or TW AC-1 Rsf507, I agree with you, speed instability is most easily detected while listening to piano music, for anyone who has ever played the instrument or who has a decent sense of pitch. (I studied piano for several years, and I am an amateur jazz sing... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? I try to keep an open mind on issues such as boutique fuses. My reading led me to believe that the possible benefits might be related to (1) a ceramic body, rather than a glass one, and (2) silver, or some other metal combined with silver, as a co... | |
| Micro Seiki, or TW AC-1 Rsf507, Do you mean to say that you can perceive perfect speed accuracy without the aid of any measuring device? (This is different from saying you have a perfect sense of pitch, which may well be the case.) With all respect, I doubt it, but maybe... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dover and Halcro, At last we have a subject upon which we can agree; the original CLS was one of the great speakers of all time, IMO, at least from the mid-bass on up. I still recall the night I first heard a pair at one of the few high end empori... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dover and Halcro, My main turntable these days is my SP10 Mk3 with Reed 2A tonearm. I also do have an FR64S which I have not heard yet, only because I have to find a way to mount it, probably on the secondary armboard on the Kenwood L07D. Contrary... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? But Nicola, two you have named above, the Apogee and the Infinity monsters, are horribly inefficient. The Apogee Scintilla, in particular, is a well known 2-ohm amplifier killer. They both do make a "big" sound, because they are physically big wit... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Henry, I fully agree with you that low-efficiency, multi-driver speakers with complex crossovers just about never get it right. But I would have thought that the Magico big speakers were in that group. I heard the Q5 at the RMAF two years ago... | |
| VPI Classic Azimuth Seems to Change -- Normal?? In which direction did the arm change azimuth? Did the cartridge rotate anti-clockwise? If so, perhaps anti-skate force is a culprit, as Swanny mentioned. You could simply try reducing the anti-skate, as an experiment. | |
| how long should tubes last Try to find out what plate voltage and what current is applied to the output tube. Then you can calculate the plate dissipation in Watts. Then find out what are the manufacturer's suggested max plate voltage, current, and dissipation. If the plate... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Dover, Do I perceive an anti-MM bias in your remark? If so, I must have been asleep, because I did not previously appreciate your feelings on the matter. If you prefer MCs, that is one thing, and it's not for me to put you down for that, but ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Nandric, To me, that is part of the key also; live sound can be VERY loud and yet not irritating. To the contrary, it can often envelope you in the experience. This is a quality to be sought for in the electronic reproduction of music. When the so... |