lewm
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| SUT experience Dear Raul, I consider you my friend even though we sometimes disagree strongly. I always respect your opinion. I was not offended by your remark about the Viv tonearm. I continue to enjoy mine very much. | |
| Replace stylus or new cartridge? Thanks. the text of the advertisement on LP gear does suggest that what they are selling is identical to what Grado are selling. And the price is identical, as well. | |
| Replace stylus or new cartridge? By the way, the Grado, TLZ is yet another bargain, priced moving iron type cartridge. You could say that the TLZ was my gateway to appreciating the potential virtues of moving iron types. As to the question of re-tipping a TLZ versus buying the Na... | |
| Replace stylus or new cartridge? Yogi, thanks. It would never have occurred to me that Grado still sell those styli. For many years, the TLZ was my one and only cartridge, and I liked it very much. I still have that cartridge, but when I auditioned it in recent years, the perform... | |
| Replace stylus or new cartridge? Where can you buy a new TLZ stylus for $325, or are you contemplating a retip of the original? | |
| Brag About Your Vinyl Collection One man’s meat is another man’s grilled cheese sandwich. | |
| Does a turntable mat make any difference? Mijo, you write, “I cannot believe this (inserting the Bricasti at 5kHz) won’t be an improvement.” Thus I guarantee you will perceive it as an improvement. I personally don’t agree with forcing a speaker to create a flat in-room response regardles... | |
| Does a turntable mat make any difference? IIRC, I measured 50 ohms impedance on my SLs at 100 Hz. But don’t hold me to that until I get home from from Vieques (a small island near Puerto Rico) and consult my data. (It might have been 50 ohms at 50 Hz.) | |
| Hydra Cyclops - Any benefit for my Power-amp? Any transformer WILL have some upper limit for the amount of current it can deliver at its secondary, for a given AC voltage. This is expressed as a VA rating. for an isolation, transformer, used to supply voltage and current to power amplifiers, ... | |
| Hydra Cyclops - Any benefit for my Power-amp? Translate your acronyms, please. | |
| Synergy Ummm… that was sincerely meant as a compliment to Pindac, Mijo, assuming you’re referring to my most recent post. | |
| Synergy Pindac, the number and breadth of the experiments you find time and assistance to perform in search of your personal vinyl Nirvana do astonish me. | |
| Synergy Strictly speaking “synergy “ describes the condition where two factors are more than additive. Where 1+1 >2. Here I think the Virtuoso is just better. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. | |
| SUT experience I love that Raul could not resist taking a poke at my Viv Float tonearm. I’m verklempt. | |
| What happens when the stylus tip wears out on a $12,000 cartridge? Chayro, I agree with your approach. If you love the cartridge it’s best to stay as close to original as possible when retipping. J Carr of Lyra wrote here that it may not be a good idea to change the cantilever material dramatically from original,... |