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| Recommended interconnect phono to preamp I bought some 28ga cotton-insulated silver wire, a Cardas DIN plug, and in my case some Neutrik XLRs (you might want male RCA plugs), from M Percy and made my own IC, for a net investment of around $100. Percy also sells the braided shield and hea... | |
| TTWeights new Black Onyx Idler drive Turntable Hifitime, Thanks for the URL. The blurb says that Black Onyx is a "Direct Idler Drive", which is a contradiction in terms, and the photos are all of the intact turntable, taken whilst playing a record, so one cannot really tell about the drive sys... | |
| TTWeights new Black Onyx Idler drive Turntable Photos of Black Onyx?Maybe TT Weights will let you have some to put up here, if you did not take photos of your own. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Tonite I verified that I am at 1.5 in a Dynavector DV505 tonearm and tracking is superb. | |
| DaVinci tonearm and azymuth Pro: Most mechanisms for adjusting azimuth introduce some compromise into the rigidity of the cartridge-headshell-tonearm-pivot linkage. Leaving out the adjustment eliminates such theoretical "issues".Con: You cannot adjust azimuth. You therefore ... | |
| Using XLR for Phono out As far as I know, in SE mode, one side of the input transformer IS grounded. That was my only point. You need to input a balanced signal to a transformer and take its output as a balanced signal in order to realize CMR. I am sure you know this; I ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Downunder, Cannot recall where I set VTF with M20FL, but 1.5 sounds right. I took the VTF from another post on this thread. Maybe the original poster will 'fess up. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dave, Perhaps I was wrong in categorizing the SME3012 as having very high effective mass. I must have read it somewhere. Plus it LOOKS to be a heavy tonearm. Anyway, your listening experience is all that counts. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Axel et al, Re VTA with the M20FL, what happened to me was that I replaced the Grado TLZ with the M20FL without altering the height of the tonearm pivot. As Axel says, this serendipitously resulted in quite a bit of positive VTA, just because the ... | |
| Ortofon MC A90 cartridge Do you guys think that the 47-ohm load would also be optimal for the MC7500, given the familial relationship among the MC7500, Windfield, and MCA90 cartridges? I like the MC7500 at 100 ohms very much. If I would critique it I would say that it is ... | |
| DaVinci tonearm and azymuth As I understand it, the goal in adjusting azimuth is to minimize crosstalk between channels. This means that the amount of crosstalk will not necessarily be equal for both channels (in fact it almost never will be equal) but merely that it will be... | |
| Cartridge and step up / riaa for TW Acustic Raven Toffeng, Re my comment that debates regarding cartridges are endless and boring, to wit the above exchange between Robyatt and Downunder, two honest guys with diametrically opposite views. In the end, you will come to your own conclusions re cartr... | |
| Cartridge and step up / riaa for TW Acustic Raven Dear Toffeng, The GCPH is a bargain at its price, but IMO you should look higher up the ladder for both your phono stage and your cartridge, to do justice to your state of the art turntable and tonearm. As regards the phono stage, you need to deci... | |
| Using XLR for Phono out Dear John, Can you cite me a reference for your statement that "transformers have some of the highest CMRR ratings"? This might be true if a transformer is properly implemented at the front end of a balanced circuit. But when transformers are used... | |
| Ortofon MC A90 cartridge Axel, A90 vs M20FL Super? Any comments? |