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| SQ difference XLR vs RCA ? Balanced cables always sound better whether you can hear it or not. | |
| Placement of Components @bgchz , it depends. Amplifiers should be located as close to the speaker inputs as possible keeping the speaker wires as short as possible. Turntables are best in the next room or as far away from the speakers as you can get it. You could make ... | |
| Using battery power to go off the City's power grid My Phono Stage runs on batteries that charge only when the unit shuts down. Certainly, with such low signal levels there is a noise advantage and maybe a transient advantage. Doing a whole system based on a total of 4800 watts of Class A power is ... | |
| Speaker Placement and Toe-In With more or less omnidirectional loudspeakers toe-in does not matter much. You might change reflective patterns a little but that is all. With directional loudspeakers it is a totally different ball game. The idea is to cover the listening area w... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? @noromance , totally different ballgame. The pop removal is done before the RIAA filter is applied. The filter slurs the pop waveform making it twice as long in time. Taking it out after RIAA is applied leaves a bigger hole. The Channel D pop filt... | |
| Opinions on speaker upgrade choices Miami. Sound Components. Great store. | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? Does anyone here remember analog cell phones? Terrible is an understatement. There are things you can do in the digital world that are impossible to do in the analog world. Incomplete? Are you kidding me? Human brains are not near that fast. A co... | |
| Low Frequency Rumble from TT between songs @dhcod , sorry about the late reply. I was not aware of your post. My version of accurate has several facets. First is measurable accuracy, the stuff most audiophiles hate like the opposite political party. Frequency response, distortion of all t... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? @rsf507 , Sure. You have the BMC MCCI which @lewm owns, the Sutherland Loco and Little Loco, The CH Precision that Michael Fremer uses and the Channel D Seta L Plus and Lino C 3.0. I have the Seta L Plus. I chose it because it can operate in eithe... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? @rauliruegas , thank you for saying that first. If I have to use a standard to AB against it will be a 24/192 digital file. Nothing at this date is more accurate than a 24/192 file in a home system. Why not DSD? None of the modern four channel dig... | |
| Best tutorial for cartridge setup Hi Saul, This is not rocket science. #1 mount cartridge in it's approximate location. #2 Set tracking force in middle of range specified by the manufacturer. #3 Set overhang with whatever gauge you like. #4 Set tracking force exactly where yo... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? @mikelavigne , I'm sorry Mike but your Studers are a poor reference. The right reference is live music. Granted, it is hard to AB with live music but, live music where you are listening to the actual instruments and not a PA system is the referenc... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? From Mono and Stereo 2022 talking about the DaVa, "a unique sound with startling realism." There is only one realistic sound. Everything else including "unique" is not. I have not listened to the DaVa Reference and probably never will. I find it... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? It all depends on how you look at it. There are many fine sounding cartridges out there but there are certain criteria that to my way of thinking have to be met before considering the sonic characteristics of a cartridge. The first and most impor... | |
| Ars Machinae Turntable - anyone has input? Yes, It fails on a number of accounts but it's worse failing is the tonearm. Unipivot arms should be avoided at all costs. For a cartridge to perform it's job correctly the tonearm can have only two degrees of freedom, up/down and left/right. Unip... |