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| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Timeltel and everyone else,Almarg has explained the relationship of load capacitance to frequency response for both MC and MM cartridges, better than any explanation I have seen. For me it unravels the paradox of how increasing capacitance could i... | |
| What would be the best "attainable" Denon turntabl Johnny, Do you use the 500M? If you do, and if you like it, then fine. But others have roundly criticized its quality of construction and performance here and elsewhere. However, Denon did just start to market a souped up audiophile version that m... | |
| MM cartridges and capacitance Al, Thanks so much. This is the first clear explanation for the apparently paradoxical effect of added capacitance on the treble response that I have come across. Makes perfect sense, now. Your post above should be archived somewhere. | |
| Confused about compliance matching with airbearing For those with a technical bent, John Ellison described a simple and clever way to measure actual tonearm/cartridge resonance, over on Vinyl Asylum. I suspect you can find it by searching on "resonance" or something like that. But you do need some... | |
| Albert Porters after market panzerholz plinths The more I think about it, the more I agree with myself re my statement about poorly designed plinths. Denon plinths definitely hold back the ultimate performance of Denon turntables, with the possible exceptions of the DK300 and DK2300 pliinths. ... | |
| What would be the best "attainable" Denon turntabl The DP75 on Hifido may be gone by now, but I would jump on it if I were you. You get a high class tonearm in the bargain, which is why I would bet it has already sold. Hifido is good about shipping to US or other. | |
| Albert Porters after market panzerholz plinths Tim, I think a suboptimal plinth can do negative things to the sound that cannot be corrected by choice of tonearm or cartridge. So, first of all, it is important to be happy with the plinth. Ah, but how to define "happy"? | |
| Albert Porters after market panzerholz plinths Nealw, What "other designs" are you referring to? It seems to me that the integral armboard is most usual with plinths. Outboard pods for mounting the tonearm seem to be the exception rather than the rule. In principle, I don't like the idea of a ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Thanks, T. I was just wondering whether the relationship between R and C follows the formula for a first order Butterworth filter: f = 1/2*pi*R"C, where f is the -3db point in a 6db per octave filter. As you can see, both R and C are inversely rel... | |
| Magic on Cleanse Electrical Power " road ". Raul, My experience exactly parallels yours, but maybe in this one instance, I was there ahead of you. For many years now I have been eliminating as many slip-on or screw-in connectors as possible anywhere they occur, inside or outside the chassis... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Timeltel, Do those recommended capacitance numbers assume 47K ohm resistive load? The $64 question is how to vary capcitance in relation to resistance. One would think that if R goes up, C goes down proportionately, to maintain the same frequency ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dave's tonearm is very special at this point, so it might be misleading to rank cartridges based on their performance in his set-up. If someone else, such as yourself, were to report a similar observation, then we have a trend. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Timeltel, Thanks for that interesting reference. If memory serves, MC cartridges with very low internal resistance (e.g., <10 ohms) typically also have a very low inductance, in the micro-Henry range (as you might expect given the low number of... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Seems to be cartridge- and capacitance-dependent. I will let others chime in. I can tell you that 100K with no added capacitance (i.e., just the capacitance of cables and the input stage, which is typically negligible) sounds best with the Grado TLZ. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Ed, Would you care to expand on your point? I don't get it. Are you referring to adding or subtracting capacitance? No one here is talking about "loading down" an MM cartridge. There has been some discussion about optimal resistive load with prefe... |