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| A Copernican View of the Turntable System Dear Henry, Sometimes a thing is "good enough". My LP hardware is in that category. My spare time is limited, and I would rather be listening to some good jazz than fiddling with an armpod. As it is, my amplifier project seems endless, and I am al... | |
| A Copernican View of the Turntable System Dear Halcro, I gotta love ya, but you wrote, "through my speakers/room/equipment interface I hear exactly the same spectrum of sound quality as through the headphones with an added air, transparency, depth, bass impact, instrument positioning and ... | |
| Cartridge Loading and Compliance Laws Dear Manitunc, My point is that you cannot make the general statement that a heavy tonearm is "better" than a light one, or vice versa, because there are other factors involved and for sure there are conditions within which either proposition is t... | |
| Cartridge Loading and Compliance Laws Manitunc, You wrote, "To use your truck/sports car analogy however, a truck would be less likely to be knocked off its straight path than a sports car hitting the same bump. I dont know that the analogy works because the tonearm is not moving, and... | |
| VAC Signature MK2a pre "phono tube questions" I have no idea about the particular Chinese 12AX7s that VAC supplies, but don't dismiss them just because they are Chinese. Some of the best 12AT7s I have ever heard were made in China, supplied to me by the Billington company in England. Admitted... | |
| Cartridge Loading and Compliance Laws No. Because your model does not hold true in real life. In real life, the tonearm must permit the cartridge to trace the groove from outside to inside, and so it cannot be fixed in space, which is where your model falls short. In real life, the ca... | |
| Nude Turntable Project Uh-oh. Albert's got one? Is that in fact a photo of Albert's? (Looks like a 12-inch SME mounted in Panzerholz arm board, both favorites of AP, so I guess the answer is "yes".) Nuts! Now I have to ditch my SP10 Mk3. Janis Joplin, where are you now?... | |
| A Copernican View of the Turntable System Yes but Henry what's your answer to my valid question? | |
| A Copernican View of the Turntable System Dear Audpulse, With all respect, the Berning ZOTLs are fine amplifiers, but they are not OTL amplifiers in the normal sense of that acronym. This has all been argued ad nauseam, and I am with you, if you were to say it does not matter. What matter... | |
| A Copernican View of the Turntable System I plan to mount my amps on separate arm pods. I will require 3 per monoblock, of course. | |
| A Copernican View of the Turntable System Raul, It's a bit of a secret, but I am on to a way of modifying the input of the Sound Lab so as to render it quite nice for my OTLs and anyone else's tube amps, as well. This is a collaboration among several Sound Lab users who prefer OTLs and/or... | |
| Tube Phono Stage vs Solid State What do you think? Swampwalker, Oh yes. Without a doubt. "Great" = the sound I seek. But give or take a few details, I don't think we are all so different from one another in what we seek. Anyway, one's own absolute sound and the difference between two phono stages ... | |
| Tube Phono Stage vs Solid State What do you think? Dear Stanwal, Wouldn't you think that "great" phono stages should tend to sound the same on a given system. The "great"-er they are, the more they should begin to resemble each other, IMO. I recently had that experience comparing my Atma MP1 phono... | |
| A Copernican View of the Turntable System Nandric, If one wishes to drive any of the full-range Sound Lab spkrs with a tube amplifier, particularly with an OTL tube amplifier, there is work to be done with the network that feeds the panel. I and others have made some modifications that he... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Raul,I have no opinion on this Neumann issue, only curiosity. Many years ago, Ralph Karsten told me where to install a resistor in the RIAA section of my MP1 preamp so as to introduce the Neumann correction. I purchased a nude Vishay for the ... |