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| What is the Phono stage you have finished with? After a very cursory review of the posts above, I note that no one has listed an Allnic phono stage as his or her favorite. Have any of you auditioned the Allnic, either the H3000 or the H1500? I am intrigued by the LCR RIAA equalization. Few if a... | |
| Attention K&K phono pre owners: Thank you, John. Do you mean to say that the Maxx'd Out uses a transformer on the input side? I was not aware of that, and it is not obvious from the photos on the website. So is this new transformer upgrade employed at the input? I thought you we... | |
| Attention K&K phono pre owners: Sorry. I went to the URL you provided above, and I see that the latest upgrade is a change in the JFET used in the hybrid cascode at the preamp input. The post says nothing about an input transformer, one way or the other. | |
| Attention K&K phono pre owners: Thank you, John. Do you mean to say that the Maxx'd Out uses a transformer on the input side? I was not aware of that, and it is not obvious from the photos on the website. So is this new transformer upgrade employed at the input? I thought you we... | |
| Grado TLZ ??? Thanks to Raul, I have been listening to my TLZ of late. I bought it new about 20 odd years ago (very odd, indeed). After cleaning and enhancing the contacts, it still holds up. I am not sure the XTZ was much of a real improvement. I don't recall ... | |
| Attention K&K phono pre owners: Can the Maxxed Out K&K phono be configured for true balanced INPUT, using XLRs instead of RCA jacks? (I know that it can be built for balanced OUTPUT.) Thanks. | |
| Grado TLZ ??? Rich, No question that the TLZ has about 1.5mV output. You would need a phono stage with enough gain for the typical high output MC cartridge to get the most out of it. I am listening to mine these days using an Ayre phono stage set to lowest gain... | |
| Azimuth and the Fozgometer Capnbob, As Larry inferred. There is no doubt that one could do the measurements done by the Foz "manually" with a proper test LP, a fine quality voltmeter, and/or a 'scope. The Foz is a matter of convenience and rapidity, plus you can be uninform... | |
| PS AUDIO P500 as a Turntable speed controller? How does Lloyd feel about your using the P300 on his turntable, instead of his own Precision Motor Controller? | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Rich, Your opinion is as valid as anyone else's. If you want help forming an opinion, there are reams written about this subject in other threads. Try searching this Analog Discussion section and Vinyl Asylum, also Tweaker's Asylum, if you want to... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Where are the early B&O cartridges in all of this? I refer to the MMC1, MMC2, MMC20CL? I own two of these 3 and have not even taken them out of the box yet. Has anyone been listening to any of them? There are just not enough hours available to... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? I am about to try out the LPM320 in a Saturn V headshell (ya gotta love that early 80s name). But I also have to report that after I repaired my preamp, which it turns out had a glitch in each channel (two different unrelated problems, one due to ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? "Shield" = braided metal tube thru which the tonearm wires pass. Then you solder a little tag at one end of the jacket and attach the tag to the chassis of your preamp via the ground lug on your RCA or XLR, only needs to be grounded at that one en... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Rich, Cannot easily be done with ordinary benchtop tools. You need a test LP with a 1kHz tone recorded at a velocity of 3.54cm/sec or 5cm/sec (the two industry standards) and then you'd need a 'scope or a very sensitive AC voltmeter to measure the... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Hi Raul, I thought you had evaluated the AT20SS back in the early phases of this thread. You liked it a lot, but you seemed to like the other Audio Technica vintage cartridges better. (I can never remember the nomenclature, but they have 3-digit n... |