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| Yamaha GT-2000 from Japan or local TD-125? GT2000 all day long. | |
| Solid State Phono Stages I re-read this thread. I thought I must have put in a plug for the Essential 3160 Phonolinepreamp, but apparently I did not, maybe because there are not that many in existence and because the 3160 is out of production. Anyway, this is the first so... | |
| Comparison of sonic qualities of some tonearms Quantum mechanics is an anti-philosophy. | |
| Comparison of sonic qualities of some tonearms It was inevitable, but the subject of the thread has now become how a tonearm should be designed and built, rather than how a tonearms sounds. Unfortunately, we've done this new topic to death in previous threads. I don't expect my pointing this ... | |
| Copper vs. Silver tonearm wire If copper was silvery and silver was coppery in appearance, many would reverse their opinions of the respective colorations. | |
| Comparison of sonic qualities of some tonearms “The links are more than adequate…” Pindac, dear boy, you can’t be serious. First of all there is no control recording. Second, we aren’t told which is which. And finally, differences are bound to be too subtle to appreciate by this method. If no... | |
| Copper vs. Silver tonearm wire Are we talking about chassis wiring, tonearm wiring, or ICs? In ICs, the geometry is very important. It determines the reactive nature of the IC (capacitance and inductance). That affects frequency response and also characteristic impedance. Same ... | |
| Copper vs. Silver tonearm wire Nordost use a lot of silver-plated copper wire which they may loosely call “silver”. I found Nordost silver-plated copper, and in fact all silver plated copper to be bright if not shrill, and I never touch the stuff. Pure silver or pure copper, ei... | |
| Comparison of sonic qualities of some tonearms dogberry, A "scientific" approach is only possible if you have a calibrated instrument that does the listening itself. Which of course is not going to fly. In the end, we are stuck with subjective impressions. This is why I said from the get-go... | |
| SUT With a Manley Steelhead RC? Snackey, what do you mean by “optimize the gain”? | |
| Comparison of sonic qualities of some tonearms More of us are neuro-tic. | |
| Comparison of sonic qualities of some tonearms Pindac, are you a neurologist or neuroscientist of some sort? | |
| Anybody using the last record preservative Feeling the surface of an LP doesn’t tell you much about friction in its grooves. | |
| Warped record Amazon returns can be dropped off at any Whole Foods outlet. They’re more common than UPS depots. | |
| Comparison of sonic qualities of some tonearms jollytinker, You wisely wrote, "at some point you have to move on and make a pragmatic decision based on incomplete knowledge." Yes, that is what we all do all the time in selecting components for an audio system (or for that matter in almost all... |