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| I am at the end of my rope, please help Great news for you, Audiorader. Like Almarg, I am wondering how it could be that the function of the Foz is turntable dependent. More likely there is some intermittent issue with the Foz so that it malfunctions only some of the time. I think I wil... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Travbrow, Forget cost. What two cartridges are you talking about and what electronics do you use downstream? (By the way, it seems that "messing with loading" is not the sole province of the MC user.) | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dertonearm, I think it was you who programmed Axel. You both may be correct, but a LOMC has a vanishingly low inductance, orders of magnitude lower than any MM cartridge. Can one actually find SUTs with such low inductance that still give enough g... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Interesting point. I myself have been wondering whether there was a correlation between solid state electronics and favorable impressions of MM/MI cartridges vs MC ones, and vice-versa for tubes. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Listener614, You have (or had?) a nice vintage audio system from front to back, so it is rather surprising that you reject the notion that vintage MM and MI cartridges have merit. I personally take no absolutist position as regards the different t... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dertonearm, Thanks for the reference to the Klyne review. The pertinent information is all on page 5. In a nutshell, Klyne favors loading LOMCs with no less than 1000 ohms and up to 47K ohms. He compensates for the possible resulting resonant peak... | |
| Let's hear some cheers fom Avid Acutus fans Great table according to all sources. Never read a bad word about it. But I never saw one in the flesh, much less heard one. | |
| Best Phono solid state under 2K? Addendum: The Jasmine 2.0SE is solid state, not tubes. Costs $500, so fits all your desires. Question to 213Cobra: The 2.0 Mk II is said on the Jasmine website to be an upward evolution of the 2.0SE, but on eBay the 2.0SE costs a few bucks more th... | |
| Best Phono solid state under 2K? I tend to agree with the cognoscenti that the Ayre P5Xe, Xono, and JLTi may stand above some of the rest, all of which are also fine. I am pleased with my P5Xe, but I have no basis for claiming it is superior to either of the other two. I never he... | |
| I am at the end of my rope, please help Audiorader, I am not sure this is even important, but when you say that the problem switched from one side to the other after you switched the pairs of leads at the cartridge clips, do you mean as measured by the Foz or did you also listen to some... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? I think the success of these seeming anomalies of tonearm/cartridge matching simply show us that the data (for compliance and tonearm effective mass) we are given to plug into the equation are crap. Garbage in; garbage out. | |
| I am at the end of my rope, please help Dear Audiorader, You wrote, "I find it an interesting theory that the higher voltage of the meter may be reading the small resistance in the cart as continuity." Either we are experiencing a problem of semantics or you really have not quite unders... | |
| Adjust+ Vs. Fozgometer For Azimuth Adjustment I agree with your last sentiment; I cannot imagine how the BAT could be actually affecting crosstalk between channels. It may be that there is a slight difference in gain between the two channels in the BAT, due to naturally occurring variations b... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Halcro, As you know, those FR tonearms are at the opposite extreme of tonearm mass from what one would expect to work well with the Empire cartridges. (I might never have thought even to try the FR/Empire combination.) Have you taken any measureme... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Raul, Your reference to LP Gear is interesting. Right now on eBay there are several Precept PC220 and PC440 cartridges for sale or on auction, and it was those that drew my attention, because I had never heard of this line of AT cartridges. But th... |