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| Best phono stage balanced under $3000 used Manitunc, The reason for the general lack of balanced connectors on the ends of tonearm cables seems to be the general lack of balanced inputs on phono stages. Very few phono stages are truly balanced internally, so in most cases there is nothing ... | |
| A Copernican View of the Turntable System ..."in normal careful use, the great mass of the armpod impedes any disposition and restrains it to a soft activity." Geoch, that is beautiful English, worthy of an erudite 19th century scientific journal entry. But what is "soft activity"? Any ac... | |
| I NEED YOUR HELP with a turntable purchase Dear Jon,As you might have expected, the responses are all over the lot depending upon the bias of the person who posts. Very few of us really have a broad experience of hearing many different expensive turntables in our home systems, which is the... | |
| lamm lp2 loading question Why not ask Mr. Lamm? The science of loading an MC cartridge that is "seeing" a SUT is somewhat complex, and I would be loathe to guess what is going on. If the resistive load is situated on the primary side of the SUT, the value "40 ohms" might m... | |
| How is LAMM LP2 compares to the more recent phono Suteetat, In your defense, I think upgrading the phono stage can be "heard" regardless of turntable, since the two devices manifest themselves in very different ways. Then too, a better phono stage prepares you for a better turntable at a later da... | |
| How is LAMM LP2 compares to the more recent phono Jtimothya, Of course I was not put off at all. I was just correcting the impression you left re the resistance seen by the cartridge thru a SUT hooked to the MM input. I know you are an experienced knowledgeable person, so I figured you just missp... | |
| A Copernican View of the Turntable System In the US there is an on-line business that can sell you a solid brass, bronze, stainless steel, or alu cylinder in your choice of diameters and pre-cut to your desired length (=height). Here is one page of their website that I have been looking a... | |
| How is LAMM LP2 compares to the more recent phono Dear Jtimothya, With an external SUT thru the MM input, the cartridge will almost surely not "see" 47K ohms. It will see 47K divided by the square of the turns ratio of the external SUT, whatever that turns out to be. I also think Thuchan and Synt... | |
| A Copernican View of the Turntable System Chris, FYI a Triplanar, and probably other 9-inch tonearms where the pivot is offset to the right of the vertical mounting shaft (e.g., 9-inch Reed or Talea), is virtually unusable with SP10 due to that "skirt", unless you can tolerate a really we... | |
| A Copernican View of the Turntable System Raul, From where you are, I would go on-line at Sears or Home Depot or even eBay, and just order by mail. If that's not possible, let me know. | |
| A Copernican View of the Turntable System Dear Nandric, For what it's worth, there is no argument (because I have stopped arguing), and there is no winner (because the outcome is subjective). If you've noticed, I am not posting here as regards my opinion on outboard tonearms and plinth-le... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II String Theory. The factory installed idler arm spring pulls the idler arm not only up toward the bottom of the platter but also exerts a force slightly biased toward the spindle side. I guess this is because the idler arm actually describes an arc... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II I am still breaking in the Jeremy bearing plus clamp, so any improvement due to the string might be hard to decipher, if I added it at this point. I will do some listening to the Jeremy this weekend and then maybe do the string next week. But I wi... | |
| A Copernican View of the Turntable System Dgob, You might try a laser-type device for assuring that the table and arm mount are plane parallel. I believe such things are now commercially available. I would not completely trust a small spirit level; a large long carpenter's level would be ... | |
| Brinkmann Bardo vs Transrotor Fat Bob Reference Glai, I apologize if I sounded offensive or aggressive. I thought you had written something to the effect that you "noticed" improved speed stability when you introduced the AC regenerator. This to me meant that you looked at the little strobe dev... |