lewm
Responses from lewm
| Step Up Transformer Question 4 lines from the bottom of my post I wrote “in proportion to the square of the turns ratio of the cartridge “. I of course meant “in proportion to the square of the turns ratio of the SUT”. | |
| Step Up Transformer Question What has always boggled my mind is that SUT manufacturers so rarely publish the turns ratio(s) of their products. Which would make it very simple indeed to at least begin to match a SUT to a particular cartridge. Instead, and especially in the gol... | |
| Manley Chinook SE MK2 Again, if the Chinook is like the Steelhead in its gain stage, it uses a hybrid cascode consisting of a transistor on the bottom and a high transconductance tube on top. This topology can develop tremendous gain, wide bandwidth, and low noise rela... | |
| Ultimate Turntable search...OMA K5 or ? I think Richard Krebs used the SP10 mk3 as his benchmark when designing and developing the K3. So it’s quite likely to exceed SP10 Mk3 and SP10R specs in its performance. Still, it is surprising that OMA don’t publish specs. | |
| Step Up Transformer Question Can you boil down your questions to two or three sentences ? The only thing I’m sure of is DON’T replace a 12AX7 with a 12AU7. | |
| Going from MM to MC Chayro, I tend to think the OP is a big boy who must know that almost no question posed on this Forum ever elicits a single unanimous opinion from the peanut gallery. But I do agree that the myriad of responses, many of them to questions that were... | |
| Ultimate Turntable search...OMA K5 or ? In the case of the Esoteric, the rotating magnetic motor is outside the circumference of the platter, as in a conventional rim drive. But the skirt around the circumference of the platter itself is ferromagnetic in order to respond to the driver. ... | |
| Manley Chinook SE MK2 By the way, if the Chinook is like the Steelhead, the gain stage is a tube/transistor hybrid cascode and is remarkably quiet with a very wide bandwidth. | |
| Manley Chinook SE MK2 Define “outperform “. Di you mean”sounds better”, “quieter “, more gain, or what? | |
| Ultimate Turntable search...OMA K5 or ? Mike, I finally found a good diagram or anatomical drawing of the workings of the Esoteric, on your thread on WBF. That drawing is worth a thousand words. Now I see how it works. It is a rim drive where nothing touches the rim, which is probabl... | |
| Cost Incurred to Achieve a Vinyl LP Replay I have two hobbies, electronics, especially tube electronics with which I like to tinker, and audiophilia, which I define as maximizing the pleasure to be had listening to my ~3000 LPs. I therefore get great satisfaction in renovating and sometime... | |
| Turn table . Price/Quality for 13000£ ? It's a Garrard 301 at heart, and that sort of idler drive is a matter of personal taste, but if you love highest quality woodworking, there is nothing not to like. Keep in mind, most of your dollars or pounds are to pay for the woodworking, howev... | |
| Ultimate Turntable search...OMA K5 or ? Performance notwithstanding, I find it interesting that some would reject the K5 based on its looks alone. In my eyes, at least, it is a relatively bling-less design. Do we want "some" bling, but not too much, for our megabucks? I see it as an h... | |
| Ultimate Turntable search...OMA K5 or ? “Mr Krebs had considerable influence.” How ironic! The K5 and K3 are Richard Krebs’s babies, completely. OMA has marketing in the USA. OMA may have had input on superficial cosmetics and on pricing. Richard worked to perfect the K5 for more than a... | |
| Ultimate Turntable search...OMA K5 or ? Dear Mike, I certainly would not wish to criticize the Esoteric, sight unheard or any other way. But I do beg to differ from what you wrote above, in response to my claim that the Esoteric "magnetic drive" system is naught but a direct drive where... |