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| A Copernican View of the Turntable System Pity we did not know enough to find each other at RMAF. Next year all of us need to do a better job of making plans in advance of the event. I went to the Mexican restaurant for the vinylphile meeting on Friday but could not identify anyone to tal... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Timeltel, You said a mouthful. I probably would not hear any of that nuance. I am more than willing to try the other cartridge, if one comes up. However, I am too cynical and perhaps hard of hearing to make such exact statements about any pho... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Jlin, Forgot to consider the gain factor. I think of "Miller" as a reference to the capacitance per se, not the product of Cm times gain. Thanks for pointing out my error in assessing the total capacitance at the input. As to the bit about increas... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Jlin, You wrote, "Triode phono stages typically have 50-150 pf of Miller effect capacitance." That seems VERY high for Miller value for any small signal tube I know about. To check myself, I just looked up Miller capacitance of a 12AX7, a com... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Timeltel, I tried to add this question in editing my post above, but somehow could not add the needed sentences: Have you (or has anyone) tried a Saturn V headshell with your Acutex's? Raul said he thought the cartridge sounded better in the ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Timeltel,I guess my goals are different from yours and some others. Once I find something good, I tend to want to keep it in my system. I am not really in this for the adventure. So I will eventually try the 315, but with some reluctance. Als... | |
| A Copernican View of the Turntable System Talea, too, I think would work on my plinths. | |
| A Copernican View of the Turntable System Dear Thuchan, Not sure I understand just what it is that I might disagree about. I don't feel very contrary about anything except maybe outboard tonearms. As far as mounting two (or more) arms, it's just a matter of allocating enough space surroun... | |
| A Copernican View of the Turntable System At this point, I think this thread needs to sink slowly down the list of threads in the Analog section, like the sun slowly setting in the West. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Hxt1, What tt and tonearm? Thanks. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Not to say that the cantilever material is not important, but isn't it unlikely to be important in terms of moving mass, since no matter what it is made of, it will constitute a very tiny fraction of the moving mass of any cartridge of any type? F... | |
| A Copernican View of the Turntable System Dear Halcro, In reference to your remark above, last month I finally bit the bullet and bought a Parasound amplifier (after much research and hand-wringing) just to have music while I play with my "real" OTL tube amplifiers. The Parasound does an ... | |
| A Copernican View of the Turntable System Dear Raul, I am saying NOTHING, nada, about the Raven in any way, shape or form. The Raven is a belt-drive turntable with no formal "plinth" but does have a massive metal base to which tonearms and bearing are rigidly attached, and a massive platt... | |
| A Copernican View of the Turntable System Right on, Ralph! | |
| A Copernican View of the Turntable System Dear Halcro, In response to your consternation about my statement, I guess I should not have used the word "introduced". Better to say that with no plinth, some resonances are or might be left undamped that might more often than not be pleasing, t... |