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| Building high-end 'tables at Home Depot: Photos I'm sure that all you have to do is to re-wire the AC inputs in back of the motor housing. Go to Lenco-Lovers website where you will probably find the necessary info. | |
| Triplanar madness I tell u, madness Loss of focus would occur if one channel is 180 degrees out of phase with respect to the other channel, but probably not if both channels are in-phase with each other, regardless of whether they are also in phase with the music, whatever phase tha... | |
| MC phono stage without transformer? Dear Plinko, To be truthful, I probably could not afford a new MP1, so some years ago I bought mine used at a rather low price, because it had been badly abused by a series of owners, but it had been originally built with many expensive extras, li... | |
| MC phono stage without transformer? Dear Plinko, Build it yourself, if you feel that strongly about expensive SUT-less phono stages. It can be done for far far less than $3K. There are schematics galore on-line. For example, check out the Vacuum State website. AW shows the schematic... | |
| MC phono stage without transformer? Atma, Lots, if not most, of my fave jazz recordings are in mono, 33 rpm, and were made prior to the advent of stereo. | |
| MC phono stage without transformer? Yeah. Equalization should ideally be within 0.1db for RIAA, but also for "Columbia", for "LP", and for all the other equalization curves used by different companies at different times in history. That's the problem. I've got British EMI pressings ... | |
| MC phono stage without transformer? Here we go. Raul, I disagree with you on amplifier output impedance, because an output Z of 0.1 ohm is usually achieved by using gobs of negative feedback, which introduces distortions across the entire musical spectrum that are far more objection... | |
| Halcyonics under my tt. Wow But Tbg, As I understand it, you own 3 Halcyonics platform, albeit maybe not the Silencer. So why are you frustrated? It is we paupers who ought to be frustrated. | |
| MC phono stage without transformer? I would posit that the Atma-sphere MP1, Raul's preamp, the Vacuum State RTP3D, and the Dolshi are all relative bargains in this era of $15,000 linestages. Don't know about the Dolshi, but the first 3 offer balanced, dual-differential circuitry (wh... | |
| Halcyonics under my tt. Wow Ummm... If it's a US-based product, the weak dollar has nothing to do with its cost in the US, except insofar as the makers may feel free to ask a lot of dollars for their products, since foreign buyers will not be terribly deterred, and except wh... | |
| Halcyonics under my tt. Wow Are Halcyonics located in Germany or elsewhere outside the US? (I don't think so.) If not, why did they choose a German distributor for the whole world? That very fact will add a lot of cost for US customers, I would think. Surely most of their re... | |
| Halcyonics under my tt. Wow How much? | |
| What Arm choices for the Garrard 301 What about the Stax 12" arms of yore? Is that one any good on a Garrard? I seem to recall that Stax tonearms got good reviews back in the day, but I don't recollect whether that included their 12" offering. I think of it as comparable to the Ortof... | |
| Halcyonics under my tt. Wow Tbg, I stumbled across the Halcyonics website while looking for some equipment for my lab. (I'm a virologist.) The possible use of their products in audio did not escape me. Can you tell me/us which model you've got and what it's weight limits are... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Dear Rnm4, You are quite correct; the idler wheel should never contact the edge of the cut-out in the chassis. Further, scraping against the edge may indeed have damaged the rubber gasket that rides on the edge of the wheel. But in passing, anothe... |