mcdonald43
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| What loading do you use on your Dynavector XX2MKII The correct loading makes an amazing difference, doesn't it? FWIW your loading is almost exactly what I measured using Atmasphere's method. Enjoy!Mike | |
| One thing Audio Widgets? 4est,I am running tube monos, non-otl. The widgets appear to be similar to what you are describing, but with other components as well.Mike | |
| What loading do you use on your Dynavector XX2MKII Dan,I too have the XX2 Mk II and have the loading set at 40 Ohms. Ralph Karsten (Atamasphere) provided a technical method of determining the loading using a function generator and an oscilloscope, and I found that with the loading set below 30 ohm... | |
| How do you know what to damp? Dave,Atmasphere (Ralph) gave me a specific proceedure for ringing a cartridge using a scope, function generator, and resistor setup using a fixed 10k resistor and the variable portion of a 1k 15 turn potentiometer (using it as a rheostat). I will ... | |
| Blowing Fuses Scott Frankland in San Jose.He is one of two people that I will allow to touch my tube gearas he is thorough and extremely conscientious. | |
| Need Help on Phono Cable I second the Zu Xaus. I have found them to be synergistic with my VPI/Dynavector/MFA components. The people at ZU understand customer service and go well beyond to make sure their customers get what they want. I recommend them without reservation. | |
| Acrylic Platters and Shinny Spots The Windex suggestion was not my idea, but was what I was told by VPI when I asked about cleaning the table. Windex for the platter and Panel Magic for the base. I figure that was as close to the gold standard as I was likely to get. | |
| Acrylic Platters and Shinny Spots I find that the shiny spots on my VPI platter are usually oils from my hands. A quick wipe with windex and a lint free cloth cleans it right up.HTH | |
| Brand new vinyl - skips? If you are using the JMW9 series unipivot arm I would remove the anti-skating from the arm altogether. I tried it on my Scoutmaster and found it to do more harm than good. I have had no problems with skipping either way however. According to some ... | |
| Amp or Integrated amp for Quad ESL-63's? Grizzie,1st - How large is your listening area?2nd - What type of music do you like?3rd - How loud does it need to play?I currently have a pair of ESL 63 being driven by MFA tube gear. My experience is that the Quads are ruthlessly revealing of up... | |
| Question About Biasing KT66 Tubes After spending some time with a tube amp designer, I found that they will play with the bias voltage at times to achieve a "sound", sometimes at the expense of tube life. Ergo I would suggest that you find the voltage that the designer/manufacture... | |
| What's the worst high-end set-up you've had? Celestion SL6S being driven by a Carver Receiver and connected with Monster Cable IC's and speaker cables. Grating was the best it could do. A Counterpoint SA 3.1 and Sumo 9 fixed that problem. | |
| Designer Hall of Fame My mistake Scott Frankland is associated with Wavestream Kinetics | |
| Designer Hall of Fame Scott Frankland - MFA & Electron KineticsPeter Walker - Quad | |
| Dynavector 20XL + P75 If you look at the Dynavector website the spec for the cartridge is 5 ohms internal resistance and the sheet on the P75 indicates that cartridges in the 4 to 10 ohm range should use the Low setting in the Phono enhancer mode. I would also try the ... |