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| Problems Revising Posts: Original Posts and Edits???? A close friend now has an aortic valve also from a pig, also doing well. Maybe one pig saved two humans. | |
| Cartridge wear with clicks and pops…? What, me worry? | |
| Cartridge wear with clicks and pops…? Speakers, maybe in extreme cases. I only wonder about input stages. On my bench I’ve driven phono stages well into overload while watching the wave form on a scope, say at 1kHz. The wave form distorts but no permanent damage is done. However I own... | |
| Cartridge wear with clicks and pops…? Czarivey, can you provide a reference to support your contention that ticks and pops destroy input stages? Seems nonsensical to me. | |
| New TT : Balanced vs. Unbalanced Connection? Baylinor, The VPI Classic being a tt certainly has nothing to do with the balanced vs SE distinction. So I assume you mean to say that the VPI tonearm is not wired for a balanced connection. But I’d guess it most certainly is. It probably offers s... | |
| Very Very Interesting NYC Venue and Meeting Place Manhattan used to be replete with audio salons that offered succor to the wandering audiophile, and at one time or another I was in all of them. They were open much more than 5 hours per week. I include Lyric HiFi, Harmony House, Singer, and a few... | |
| New TT : Balanced vs. Unbalanced Connection? The reason to minimize noise at the phono stage is because that stage is called upon to produce the most gain, by far, of any element in the chain. High gain requirement brings the problem of noise to the fore. I have one system that is fully bala... | |
| New TT : Balanced vs. Unbalanced Connection? Above should read ”yes, the Nagaoka can be wired for balanced operation”. As can nearly every cartridge except those that provide only a single common ground for both channels. IMO, at this level (given the OP’s system) it may not be worth the ext... | |
| New TT : Balanced vs. Unbalanced Connection? Yes, but he Nagaoka can be wired for balanced mode. | |
| Does a turntable mat make any difference? Agree on Lee Morgan. | |
| New TT : Balanced vs. Unbalanced Connection? True, the presence of an XLR input, does not prove that they equipment is fully balanced in its internal circuit. This is research you will have to do. | |
| Very Very Interesting NYC Venue and Meeting Place For 5 hours on Saturdays in Soho. I hope they can pay the rent for that space while getting started. | |
| New TT : Balanced vs. Unbalanced Connection? I have found that a balanced connection between cartridge and phono stage has much fewer issues with hum, which is to say I’ve had no such issues using a variety of cartridges and tonearms in balanced mode, over a period of more than 20 years. If ... | |
| RCA Phono Interconnect Under $400 Elliot, Of course you’re entitled to your preferences in all cases. Those cables you got with your reconditioned Mac, are they of the 2-conductor construction, with audio ground separated from shield? If not, you might want to procure some inexpen... | |
| RCA Phono Interconnect Under $400 In addition to low capacitance you also want shielding from RFI. Since a shield adds capacitance, it’s not so simple. |