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| Phono Pre-amp with XLR What would be more frightening is if you encounter another male dressed as a female XLR. That would be decidedly unbalanced. | |
| TW-Acustic Raven 10.5 or DaVinci Grandezza?? Dear DT, After all the times I wrote my contrary opinion and all the times you seemed to agree with me, are you saying once again that you can tell by visual inspection of a cartridge that it will have "perfect" azimuth, i.e., that 90 degrees of a... | |
| Phono Pre-amp with XLR Tdaudio, If you read Ralph's (Atma-sphere) post and then read mine from yesterday, you will find a remarkable confluence. I have been using an MP1 for about 14 years now. I think some balanced phono stages offer RCA phono inputs because, as Ralph ... | |
| TW-Acustic Raven 10.5 or DaVinci Grandezza?? Dear Rockitman,If you want to use your own tools to adjust for azimuth, I do not think it is as simple as Dertonearm implies. You also need a pure test tone on an LP (usually 1kHz will suffice, but if you are fanatical you could use more than one ... | |
| TW-Acustic Raven 10.5 or DaVinci Grandezza?? Dertonearm, I guess it is fair to say that misinformed persons might play with azimuth to correct channel imbalance, but one hopes such persons would soon learn the folly of their ways. As to your second statement, I don't often look at styli with... | |
| TW-Acustic Raven 10.5 or DaVinci Grandezza?? Dear DT, Adjusting azimuth is not the best way to deal with channel imbalance that you describe in your example. Azimuth has very little effect on channel balance. Azimuth affects crosstalk, of the L channel signal into the R channel and vice-vers... | |
| TW-Acustic Raven 10.5 or DaVinci Grandezza?? Sorry, should have written "including he", not "including him" in the second paragraph above. | |
| TW-Acustic Raven 10.5 or DaVinci Grandezza?? Someone somewhere wrote of the DaVinci that lack of azimuth adjustment made for a simplified construction and in part could account for the perceived superb sound quality. And I think there may be some truth in that. The add-on mechanisms required... | |
| 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. |