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| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Jean, Are you talking about the distal end of the idler arm, where it attaches to the chassis, originally with rubber washers on either side of the nut/bolt that hold it to the chassis? Ugghh, I'll have to remove the chassis from the plinth to do ... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Jean, As you fade off into the sunset, did I hear you intimate that you are building/have built a plinth for an SP10? While I am no lover of the Heil tweeter, I've had a longstanding curiosity re those big EV (and JBL) horn-loaded spkrs of the 50s... | |
| Triplanar RCA out to Balanced out for MP-1 Cousinbilly, I gather your Triplanar has the optional external junction box with the standard female RCA receptacles. This allows you (or forces you) to use additional phono cables from the junction box to the preamp. Since you have decided to sen... | |
| Ultimate Idler Drive Robyatt, I did go to their website and I did see that the prices of the products are in the gulp domain. However, I am not one to denigrate a piece of gear just because it costs a great deal of money. In fact, having read up on the rationale for t... | |
| Ultimate Idler Drive Can Stealth wire be bought as naked product, or is one forced to buy them as made-up ICs? Guess I should do my own research on that. | |
| Triplanar RCA out to Balanced out for MP-1 Dear Thom, I've been thinking that your scheme #1 for hookup is the way you'd do it if a cartridge really had a hot and ground side, i.e., the way to do it if you were to hookup a single-ended CD player to a balanced input preamp. Scheme #2 is the... | |
| Triplanar RCA out to Balanced out for MP-1 Raul is correct. I would just add that the wire going to the "ground" side of the RCA plug is the one that should be soldered to pin3. Pin 2 gets the "hot" wire. You can do it yourself, but since Tri is colleagial with Atma-sphere, I am sure he wo... | |
| Ultimate Idler Drive Robyatt, What is "Stealth" wire? Is it silver or copper, braided or solid core? Thanks. | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Although it's OK to replace a 12AX7 with a 5751, the 5751 is electrically slightly different, mostly in that it has a lower mu and slightly lower plate resistance than a 12AX7. And I am not sure the 5751 is inherently a lower noise tube compared t... | |
| Our home system: How good it is? Elinor, Amen to what you wrote above. Home theater and the internet have killed the retail two-channel audio industry and the camaraderie that went with it and are threatening this hobby. I have a couple of 30-year friendships with guys whom I fir... | |
| Ultimate Idler Drive Robyatt, Thanks. | |
| Ultimate Idler Drive Your enthusiasm for the Ortofon caused me to try to learn more by Googling it. All I can find is text that refers to their 2M model, which apparently had design input from a person named Per Windfield. I found no reference to an Ortofon cartridge ... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II "The ESS AMT4s have those fabulous Heil Air Motion Transformers midrange/high-frequency elements (said to be the best overall driver ever developed)..."Who said that? I remember those drivers quite well. Heard them with a wide variety of ss and tu... | |
| Ultimate Idler Drive Dear Robyatt, I would be very interested to learn the results of your testing. I am on the same or a very similar path. I quite agree with you re the special qualities of the very weird RS-A1 tonearm. However, no matter what I find in my own expts... | |
| Belt stretch Rccc, Assuming you own high quality examples of belt-drive and direct-drive turntables, have you done the experiment of listening to each one with the same tonearm and cartridge? If so, do you hear any differences that could therefore be ascribed ... |