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| MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY? Terry, when you advised a push pull complementary device, were you thinking about a phono stage? Or an amplifier? Certainly that topology is more commonly associated with amplifier output stage design. In fact, I know of no phono stage in history ... | |
| MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY? Dover, I am aware of the difference between a capacitor and a resistor. By comparing the Russian SSG capacitors to a TX resistor I was only suggesting an analogy as regards the property of transparency. Most regard the TX2575 foil resistor as very... | |
| Phono cable not caps to le with preamp? bicycle, "knowledge is never useless"???? It's true; I have too many posts here. But I think that is over a 15-20 year period and includes the duration of the pandemic when I was going out of my mind with boredom and the confinement. On the othe... | |
| Phono cable not caps to le with preamp? Bicycle, am I correct in the belief that the blurb you quoted is from your owners manual and that your phono stage is not identical to the OP’s? If so, the bit about playing with internal ground switches is useless to the OP, because the vast majo... | |
| MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY? I don’t design RIAA circuitry. That’s over my head. I substituted.022 uF caps into an RIAA that already required .022uF. | |
| How often, and how, do you clean your stylus? My own microscope reveals tiny white flakes , more on cantilever than on stylus, left behind by ME. It was easy to remove with a brush. | |
| Example of a piece o’ crap, useless review I am sure "their" certain about the difference between "there" and "they're". And it's not a matter of grammar. It's merely about spelling. PRaT is a marketing tool invented by Ivor Tiefenbrun and nothing more than that. | |
| MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY? I highly recommend to anyone who knows how to solder and likes to experiment with different capacitor types that you acquire some Russian silver mica capacitors on eBay and give them a try. They are VERY large for very small values but very inexpe... | |
| MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY? A related issue with using air dielectric capacitors in phono stages would be drift as air heats up or humidity changes. Thus it would be difficult to maintain accurate RIAA. On the other hand I guess the pF values in RIAA would be relatively easy... | |
| Vinyl pressing mistakes Could be worth a fortune to some eccentric collector, like the famous air mail stamp from the 20s, with the upside down airplane. | |
| Static on turntable The cause of the (negative) charge on an LP surface is either direct transfer from another charged object, like you, the operator, who got charged up by walking across a carpet wearing leather shoes, or friction, like when you pull the LP out of a... | |
| Phono Stage in inputs for 2 tonearms DSA Phono 3. J&R 3180 Phonolinepreamp | |
| MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY? I used to use the Multicap RTX caps for critical applications. (Those are the polystyrenes.) But in my listening opinion, the teflon capacitors that came along later are far better (REL or other). In fact, now I cannot bear the RTXs, and I have a ... | |
| Static on turntable Elliott, those are all worthwhile thoughts. But the haphazard occurrence of the problems doesn’t rule out static charge, in my opinion. That’s the nature of the beast. | |
| Static on turntable Yanking the new LP out of its paper sleeve most certainly charges it up. Carbon fiber brushes are not the most effective way to neutralize the charge thus acquired. I would advise you to invest in a Zerostat and learn how to use it properly. Al... |