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| Has anyone compared the EMT 139st phonostage to others ? Wow! What a wealth of information from Good Music. I will never own an EMT anything (not because I don’t like the company but just due to my own old age and set preferences), but the historical perspective GM conveyed is very interesting. I am lef... | |
| Developing A List Of Tonearm Candidates For A SOTA Turntable You play LPs with dust cover on? If not, who cares whether the dust cover impedes the lateral traverse? | |
| question about Balanced signals. All of those criteria are met in a proper balanced circuit. | |
| Would changing to a MC solve my problem? I will ignore your silly riposte. I am not here to do homework. You mentioned the Cary once in one of your early posts, and I did respond to that by saying that most integrated amplifiers (like your Cary) do not add very much if any gain in their ... | |
| Phono cartridge noises He doesn’t have hum. He just said so. Although it’s a good idea to worry about routers/modem/repeaters, why go there when we know he has a giant radio antenna 1000 yards from his room? In medicine there is a canard about hearing hoofbeats and ... | |
| question about Balanced signals. mashif is correct. You would need the first balanced device to have a transformer at its input so as to convert the SE input to balanced. It would then pass a balanced signal to the downstream balanced device. But most often, the inputs on balan... | |
| Would changing to a MC solve my problem? Traudio, both Raul and I are trying to help but you don’t seem to pay attention. What linestage are you using? (That’s my question.) IMO, unless you dislike the Hegel on other grounds, the last thing you need to do to solve the particular problem ... | |
| Would changing to a MC solve my problem? You could as well conclude that your MM cartridge is at fault, because 46db gain in an MM phono stage is typically more than adequate. On the other hand, 2.4 mV output from your MM is low . Most MMs make 4-5mV output. All of this suggests to me th... | |
| Would changing to a MC solve my problem? What linestage are you using, and how much gain does it add to the signal driving the amplifier? If you’re using an integrated, the linestage section of many integrated amplifiers does not add gain. 400mV from your phono without linestage gain may... | |
| Phono cartridge noises He doesn’t have “hum”, in the sense of 60 or 120Hz noise. He needs shielding from that nearby radio antenna, and yes, the shield must be grounded to have an effect. We don’t know whether even his cables are shielded. Seems to me the only thing to ... | |
| MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY? There likely is something to the idea that cartridge transient response is very important to conveying the sense of a live performance (studio or concert), because for me when I attend live music (as I will be doing in about 2 hours from now), the... | |
| Phono cartridge noises Define “injected”. Anyway, did Skyy tell us he can select the phono inputs on his linestage, and if the tonearm is disconnected from the phono stage inputs, there is no noise? If he explicitly said that, I missed it. I agree that would suggest RF... | |
| Phono cartridge noises Noromance, Airborne RFI can enter via the cables or any piece of equipment, in this case the phono stage. Once it gets in, it can be propagated by cabling anywhere. so why is the observation that phono needs to be plugged in contrary to the airbor... | |
| Phono cartridge noises There is no reason to believe that an SS phono stage would be less sensitive to RFI. In fact, an SS stage is more likely to be MORE sensitive to RFI, because an SS stage will likely have a wider bandwidth, not that that extra bandwidth, for exampl... | |
| Experiences With The Ikeda Arms? Neon, if you run the FR64S, I highly recommend both the B60 and an arm board that has good energy dissipation. The B60 and the board help with mass damping. Properly set up, the FR64S can be very good. |