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| how to use LDA quartz regenerator??? help Elvis has left the building it seems. | |
| What happens when the stylus tip wears out on a $12,000 cartridge? Truth is none of us “knows” for sure when a stylus is worn enough to need replacement, assuming a gradual decline and not a catastrophic failure as occurs when the stylus comes unglued from the cantilever, unless one owns a suitable microscope and... | |
| SUT experience If you’re really going to purchase a new phono stage, then do consider the PS Audio Stellar, as Raul suggested. But if your proclivities are toward a “vintage” sound, then you may also want to consider a modern tube based full function preamplifie... | |
| SUT experience Raul, I read the Stellar review. It seems to be superb. I’d recommend it to anyone interested in a new phono stage. The OP does not seem to be interested in a new phono stage. That was my point. It doesn’t help to respond to a question regarding i... | |
| Seeking Legit Cartridge Expert? A unipivot bearing is physically quite different from a gimbal bearing. That’s plain to see. Whether one can hear a difference between two otherwise identical tonearms that is purely due to the type of bearing is up to the listener. I’m surprised ... | |
| SUT experience A “head amp” or “pre-preamp” is simply a linear active gain stage to boost the cartridge output so the ensemble can then drive an MM stage. If you start with a high gain MC phono stage, there’s no role for a head amp. And a head amp, like a SUT, r... | |
| how to use LDA quartz regenerator??? help Are there no adjustments that affect voltage or current output from the LDA? If so, have you fiddled with them? Jason, nearly all TT motor controllers are in essence AC power regenerators. They work by affecting voltage and current out put to the... | |
| SUT experience Gilda as Roseann Roseannadanna. Raul, I don’t know if the Project phono is better than the Mac phono built into the OP’s C47, but in any case he’s using the Project for phono gain and RIAA, not the Mac. And I don’t see the point in raining on his... | |
| SUT experience Sorry, I am not steeped in knowledge of the SPU series and so did not realize what you were talking about. With the Synergy (0.5 mV), you definitely do not need the 60db gain setting. Even 50db is slight overkill with a 1:10 SUT. For example, with... | |
| SUT experience Adrian, In your last post you name 3 cartridges, none of which is identifiable as an Ortofon SPU, unless it’s “#1”. Then you don’t say whether my own assumptions of the current setup are correct. If you want commentary you need to be very specific... | |
| SUT experience Adrian, do I understand correctly that your using an Ortofon SPU cartridge into a 10 ohm SUT into the Project phono MM inputs with phono gain set at 60 db, then into the Mac linestage? The SPU makes 0.2mV. Assuming your SUT steps up signal voltage... | |
| New TT : Balanced vs. Unbalanced Connection? Sleepwalker, I hope you get the salient point that ICs per se count for nothing if the phono stage (in this instance) is not capable of balanced operation. Therefore you can’t have one without the other. These days there are components that provid... | |
| Safe to use an old Sumiko Talisman Virtuoso B? I am not clear from your post whether you tried to play music with your vintage cartridge. In any case, while I have never heard one myself, this is a very highly regarded cartridge. If it works and plays music and you’re happy, there is no need t... | |
| New TT : Balanced vs. Unbalanced Connection? I like to say “all other things being equal” (same cartridge, same phono stage, same everything downstream) a balanced connection will get you 6db compared to an SE connection of all the same components.. usually this comparison is not actually f... | |
| Cartridge wear with clicks and pops…? How does a peripheral ring affect the frequency of ticks and pops? |