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| Technics SP-10 Tonearm Pod instead of Plinth/Base Guys, If I am wrong about Raul's rig, I stand corrected. It means that I have been under the wrong impression for several months. In fact I thought Raul agreed with me when in other places I had stated my case against having separate arm pods. Nan... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Ray, Please forgive me. You've got me completely wrong. I am not, was not sniping at you in any way. I appreciate your contributions and your presence here. All I was saying was what I said, and nothing more. If you will re-read my post, you will ... | |
| Technics SP-10 Tonearm Pod instead of Plinth/Base I am not sure that your description of Raul's set-up is correct. I thought he had mounted the tonearm on a short skirt of plywood that is also fastened around the tt chassis. In any case, that would be my preference, if I were to go with the ultra... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Ray, I don't really care what someone else says about this, as there really is no right or wrong. I am telling you that with the TLZ, I found much to enjoy when I switched to 100K load. Since this cannot cause anything to blow up or even to work h... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Ray, If you haven't read this whole long thread, I wrote at least 3 times that many years ago when the TLZ was my regular cartridge, I accidentally loaded it at 100K ohms (or more likely at 94K ohms with two 47K resistors). During my next listenin... | |
| Cartridges better than Colibri XGP? IMO, there are so many structural variants of the "Colibri", as partially outlined by Mike Lavigne, that I don't know how any one person could say he knew the sound exactly. Not only do the materials vary but also the output voltage seems to vary ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Thanks, Ray. It's good to have independent confirmation of my preliminary impressions. I always did like the TLZ and only went to an HOMC in order to be "in fashion", I guess. I do remember auditioning the next lower priced Grado model at that tim... | |
| What phono preamps are balanced Pedrillo, Most likely the 5th lead from the Graham 2.2 is just to ground the tonearm body to the preamp chassis. It's a toss-up whether you would even need to connect it. With my RS-A1 tonearm, I had hum until I ran a ground wire from the body to ... | |
| What phono preamps are balanced BAT is balanced. I don't know who said it wasn't. AFAIK all BAT products are true balanced types.Rhea has a single-ended phono section followed by a balanced output section. This means that you have to hook the cartridge up to the phono input in s... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Raul, $2800 for the Amber. Need I say more, even if it IS Australian dollars? I will look for a used one. How do you rank the Amber at this point in your odyssey, compared to cartridges you've heard since your original posting that founded this th... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Raul and Dave, Thank you for the information. My TLZ, after only a few hours post it's resurrection, is definitely not happy tracking at 1.5gm. (And now that I think of it, that was the VTF I used to use with it back in the 80s.) Perhaps this is b... | |
| Cartridges better than Colibri XGP? This is an impossible question; any response is going to be purely subjective. And since you cannot get into someone else's head, I suggest that all you will get is a list of opinions from the probably very few of us who have ever heard a Colibri ... | |
| What phono preamps are balanced I think I misspoke. After further investigation it seems the Aqvox is balanced for MC inputs and single-ended for MM cartridges. | |
| What phono preamps are balanced Pedrillo et al,I am fairly certain that the Aesthetix Rhea does NOT contain a balanced phono amplification circuit. The Io does. I am also dubious about the Aqvox (read the promos carefully) and the PS Audio GCPH. (Someone will no doubt correct me... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? At long last, thanks to a rainy Saturday here, I finally got my MM system up and running. As previously mentioned, I am using a Lenco/PTP3 mounted in slate with a Dynavector DV505 tonearm running into an Ayre P5Xe phono stage set for low gain, the... |