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| Ultimate Turntable search...OMA K5 or ? Tokyo is replete with high end dealers who allow a serious acting walk-in audiophile to spend as much time as wanted listening to various combinations of equipment. In that sense, the Japanese are about 30 years behind the US, where such opportun... | |
| Pass Labs XP-25 Outputs Keep in mind, your TVC linestage is a passive device. It adds no gain to the signal. Most active linestages can add at least 10db or more of gain. So you are fully dependent upon phono stage gain. Like benjie says, you need to up the gain settin... | |
| Ultimate Turntable search...OMA K5 or ? I just read the owners manual describing setup of the Supatrac. What a delightfully mid-century British device! Reminds me of putting up the convertible top on an MG TC. However the core idea of placing the pivot in the plane or below the plane of... | |
| Manley Chinook SE MK2 theflattire, I am curious to know where you got the information that most audiophiles prefer the Modwright to the "Manley" (by which term I assume you refer to the Chinook)? Both units seem well thought of by most who offer opinions, but I have n... | |
| Ultimate Turntable search...OMA K5 or ? If it really is up among the very best turntables, then it is rather a bargain at less than $100K. Personally I could not put up with the string, the push start, the waiting. But that’s just my preference. | |
| Ultimate Turntable search...OMA K5 or ? Never heard of AS2000. How long does it take a string drive to bring a 150 lb platter up to speed? I imagine one could have lunch in the interim. | |
| RCA Victor records' quality Mijostyn, if you’re buying LPs in the here and now, and if you like Count Basie, Sarah Vaughn, Joe Williams, and etc, you don’t have to be old to buy LPs on the Roulette label. Thankfully, most of those great jazz artists also recorded on other la... | |
| Pass Labs XP-25 Outputs True balanced circuit vs single-ended circuit will if properly designed have 6db more gain than its equivalent SE circuit, all other things being equal. Which is to say that if you ground one phase of a balanced circuit, you get an SE circuit wit... | |
| RCA Victor records' quality Try Roulette or Deutsche Gramaphone, if you want shrill. | |
| RCA Victor records' quality No, it is not "how music was produced back then". Vintage RCAs can be fine. Much depends upon the recording studio, and the conditions set by the engineer that day, and who owned those LPs before you, and how they were treated. One can never kno... | |
| Pass Labs XP-25 Outputs I would consult Pass Labs before doing that. Is there a switch somewhere that selects single-ended vs balanced output? If so, maybe. If not, then don't. But do consult them. I have a question. You wrote, "I am currently trying out a Pass Lab... | |
| Manley Chinook SE MK2 Pindac, eddy currents and copper vs silver conductor are probably subjects for another thread. | |
| Ultimate Turntable search...OMA K5 or ? I have to apologize to OMA. My further research shows OMA funded the development under Krebs, and their industrial design group had much to do with the final form. | |
| Manley Chinook SE MK2 There is an easy upgrade to the Chinook, if its output stage is like that of the Steelhead. Just upgrade the output coupling capacitors, which are mediocre in the Steelhead and way higher in value than they need to be. I have written about this b... | |
| Manley Chinook SE MK2 Pindac, I do not disagree that low eddy current RCA connectors, like the KLE types, do sound good. In fact, I use nothing but KLE connectors, when it comes to RCA. The point is that one does not know WHY they sound good. The fact that the design ... |