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| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Perhaps vdH is more fascinated with the beautiful women of the Ukraine than he is with repairing another Colibri. Who can blame him?It was slowly dawning on me that Axel was raising his prices. Now that Nicola mentions "400 Euro", I am both flabbe... | |
| Upgrades to Analog System I agree with Syntax. Rhea was a bit disappointing to me, altho I heard it in someone else's system. I have also heard the Signature version, in the same system, and it is a lot better. However, the cost of the upgrade might not be justified, since... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? I think the manufacturers realized that endorsing the idea of directionality was yet another good way to promote the sale of $50 fuses; if direction makes a difference, then surely all the other associated less controversial mumbo jumbo makes sens... | |
| 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. |