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| Graham Phantom Supreme? Rockitman, Some plain old thin gauge silver wire would make me happy enough, and since one would be paying for the re-working of the tonearm, one could also pay for quality wire, Nordost notwithstanding. Any good quality continuous length of wire ... | |
| Graham Phantom Supreme? Looking at photos of both the Supreme and the II, it seems that both require the use of ancillary ICs, between the base of the tonearm and the preamp. Presumably there is a DIN plug tucked up in the base, as per usual. Has anyone had the tonearm r... | |
| Kuzma 4Point Tri-Planar Dear Doug, Thanks for your thoughts on the virtues of wood and why the Schroeder "sounds" as it does. But statements like: "Acoustic energies which flow into wood tend to be repeatedly scattered into disorganized packets with randomized frequencie... | |
| Phono Pre-amp with XLR As long as you understand that the type of input or output jack (RCA vs XLR) makes very little difference per se. What I think you want is a balanced phono stage that truly processes the phono signal in balanced mode. Such a preamp will typically ... | |
| Kuzma 4Point Tri-Planar For me the interesting comparison would be Graham Phantom II vs Talea. Two great unipivots, one with a wood arm wand, the other made of metal. Telos may be better than either (or not), but the price puts it in another category entirely, not that T... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? FWIW, my "other" LO7D (the one I still own), came with the Kenwood record weight. I do not like what it does at all. In fact, my experience with this weight parallels all my other experiences with record weights; they seem to take some "life" out ... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? A little stethoscope is a dangerous thing, because it imparts a little knowledge. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? But seriously, Raul, why are you withholding the identity of the LOMC cartridge that has you so fascinated? If you still don't want to reveal its identity, perhaps you can say why, at least. | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? My profound apologies.That blather about thimerosal was in response to a post on another thread. As the late great Gilda Radnor might have said in the guise of her TV character, Emily LaTella, "Never mind." | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? "Mercury" in flu vaccineSorry this is way OT, but it is one of my pet peeves.There never ever was any "mercury" in any vaccine. In some vaccines, like inactivated influenza virus vaccine, there is and was thimerosal. Thimerosal is not free mercury... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? I finally do understand why you are concerned about the mechanical vibration of your transformer. A good platter mat can isolate the LP from such low level disturbance. Also, sometimes you can make mechanical transformer hum go away by judicious t... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Mind you, the Littman was preferred by cardiologists, not audiophiles. As I recall, it was quite good for picking up murmurs. But another virtue if you are schlepping it around a hospital all day is that it is very small and light compared to some... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Based on your last post, I would not worry one bit about that hum. (Obviously your TT101 was built for 120V.) But if you like to worry, I still would not go to a lot of trouble and expense to move all the electronics out of the tt chassis, if inde... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Gary AND I should have written "EMI", not "EMF". EMF stands for ElectroMotive Force, which is another term for voltage. EMI stands for ElectroMagnetic Interference, which is undesired low frequency radiation from a transformer or motor. I picked u... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Where to begin?Dear Gary, Henry makes a VERY good point; if you have plugged your TT101 into the 120V wall outlet, that could very well be what is making your transformer hum. Even though the voltage is only slightly different from 100V, you had b... |