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| Tale of two turntables Adam, Koetsu's love high mass tonearms, is the first brand that comes to mind. I run my Urushi in a Fidelity Research FR64S with an Ortofon LH9000 headshell, which alone weighs 18g. Although I have had the Urushi in technically superior tonearms... | |
| slide in phono stage for Accuphase C-2450 preamplifier - is it any good? toronto, I am a proponent of "phonolinepreamps" when they are designed and built to a high standard, as is likely the case with Accuphase. From an audiophile point of view, they offer phono function without the extra chassis, which eliminates outp... | |
| slide in phono stage for Accuphase C-2450 preamplifier - is it any good? You are very unlikely to get an informed opinion here regarding the two choices of Accuphase phono modules, unless perhaps you tell us more about them. Because I doubt any one here owns an Accuphase preamp with phono. | |
| SUT help Pindac, I know nothing about your phono stage and certainly never said or even implied that it was inferior. Originally, I was merely asking about how the term "Transconduction" might apply to the mystery phono stage that you like. The way you us... | |
| Tale of two turntables The idea is you don't really know what the turntables are doing until you switch the arms AND cartridges from one to the other. (The two preceding posts recommend switching cartridges only; I disagree.) Personally, without any listening, I would t... | |
| How often, and how, do you clean your stylus? Humminguru s-duo. For the man with cojones. Never heard of it before now. | |
| How often, and how, do you clean your stylus? Of course the electronic stylus cleaners do not work through cavitation and could not possibly do so. You need a liquid medium in which to generate the bubbles. There is no claim that I ever saw that they operate by cavitation or that they are ev... | |
| How often, and how, do you clean your stylus? Not necessary, in my opinion, but not wrong either. If you are referring to microscopic exam of the stylus. Maybe a little lax, if you are referring to cleaning the stylus tip at least perfunctorily. | |
| Has There Been Changes To The SME V Over The Years? How can you sleep at night? | |
| How often, and how, do you clean your stylus? That eMag thing looks like a re-branded version of what I bought in Tokyo last May but have not used because it scares me a bit in that I fear it might loosen the bond between stylus and cantilever. Or the Onzow. Here's why I wrote that waiting ... | |
| Has There Been Changes To The SME V Over The Years? My question about brunelling was rhetorical, although I did have to look up the definition. My point is that I doubt any tonearm ever is used so often or so roughly as to cause brinelling. If it’s present, it’s probably due to a manufacturing defe... | |
| How often, and how, do you clean your stylus? That’s not common sense. That’s whistling in the dark. | |
| Has There Been Changes To The SME V Over The Years? What’s “brinelling”? | |
| How often, and how, do you clean your stylus? Johnny, all directions on using ME to clean a stylus say to just drop the cartridge on to the ME. Back and forth motion is verboten. So don’t worry about ME users like me occasionally. But microscopic examination of styli does reveal that ME can l... | |
| How often, and how, do you clean your stylus? Forgot to mention I also own an Audioquest “ultrasonic” cleaner. The same cleaner has been sold under different brand names for decades. I don’t use it routinely but I’ve found it to be very effective. And it’s not ultrasonic. It vibrates at aroun... |