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| Luxman PD-272 If it has never been serviced, your finding is not surprising. First, the electronics probably utilize a bunch of electrolytic caps. Many of these caps may have become "leaky" due simply to their age. "Leaky" means in an electronic sense that they... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Raul, It is not that I am not used to handling MC cartridges, which generally tend not to have a stylus guards. As you know, I am only a recent convert to the MM faith, and for two decades I owned only MC cartridges. Never once did I have an ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Forgot to say, instead of "glue", I would recommend some Walker Audio silver contact enhancer or a similar product. You could put that stuff right on the frictional surfaces to increase BOTH the solidity of the mating and the electrical contact ac... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? I like the idea of removing the M20FL Super stylus guard, in principle, but I have to admit that if you mount these things on removable headshells, as I have started to do, the guard is really useful, not to say "life-saving". Same goes for the Gr... | |
| Are linear tracking arms better than pivoted arms? Hey 213 Cobra (Phil), I too was a friend and customer of Julius' in his end stage as a manufacturer. Over a period of 5-7 years I bought two amps from him, a stereo unit and then an H3aa. I have a vivid memory of standing in his shop space while h... | |
| Are linear tracking arms better than pivoted arms? "Make sure you use a surge tank with it and an air filter on the output of the tank that feeds the arm tube. You can build your own surge tank for dirt cheap by going to home depot or Lowes and buying a chunk of PVC pipe and two end caps and two a... | |
| SP10 Mk II vs Mk III Cknicker, I see now after all these months that I misunderstood your question of 11-07-09. You asked whether I replaced the 1uF electrolytics with 1uF film caps. The short answer is "no". The new Panasonic lytics in 1uF look to be very high qualit... | |
| SP10 Mk II vs Mk III Rnadelman, Choosing feet is like choosing a way to comb your hair. Everyone has a different idea of what is best. I recently purchased some of those huge feet that TT Weights make for their own Christine turntable. The feet are for sale here on Au... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Timeltel, You cannot go wrong quoting Groucho. My favorite is what he said about Doris Day, who was apparently quite a floozy in private but became America's darling after she made many movies that depicted her as a virtuous innocent. Groucho said... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Axel, Who said I aspired to a "higher intellect"? Also, which one of us is guilty of "continuing with the argument"? Habeas corpus. Je ne c'est quois.A wet bird never flies at night. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Guys, my point was simple: the higher the load capacitance, the lower the roll-off frequency. If the roll-off frequency is so high as to be irrelevant to listening requirements, say above 50kHz, then it is a secondary issue or a non-issue. Yes, in... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Axel, Timeltel, et al, The phenomenon of resonance is one of the factors that I did not specifically mention (along with load R, cartridge R, cartridge inductance, etc) that can alter the outcome when you add or subtract C load. There is nothing m... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Axel, It cannot possibly be the case that the effect of a parallel capacitance is opposite for MCs vs MMs. The mechanism by which a capacitance in parallel with the signal could tend to roll off high frequencies applies to either type. But other f... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Woe is me. My Empire is a 1000ZE, not a ZE/X. My Ortofon is an M50FL Super, not an M50E. This reminds me of Janis Joplin's lament:"Oh Lord, won't you buy mea Mercedes-BenzMy friends all have PorschesI must make amends"....I saw a very interesting ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Raul, You wrote, "Dear Downunder: Normally as you go higher on capacitance as the cartridge goes brighther."As I see it, the capacitances of the phono stage and the interconnect, etc, are all in parallel with the signal voltage. Since the imp... |