mijostyn
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| Vinyl collection, now what? Russashe, the Clearaudio concept will do nicely you just have to put the right cartridge in it which depends on the phono stage. No, cleeds was not kidding a 24/192 conversion of a record will be indistinguishable from the record. cleeds and I are... | |
| Any electronic geniuses here? The only thing I can possibly add to the above comments is that good transformer companies like Sowter in the UK will make a range of transformers suited to specific cartridge impedances. These are "loose" transformers that should be wired interna... | |
| How do you know what you're missing? Cat, the sound of any system is a moving target but it does come down to what you hear. Imaging and sound stage are easy to qualify, tonal balance is not. Without a "calibrated" reference it is impossible to know what you are listening to. It is n... | |
| Best SUT For Van Den Hul Crimson Stradivarius cartridge Wow Kanchi647, there must be 1000 of them out there. How much do you want to spend? Tubes or SS? Digital or analog? Are you using an Ypsilon amplifier? Answering these questions will help us narrow it down. | |
| Best SUT For Van Den Hul Crimson Stradivarius cartridge Kanchi647, when you connect resistors in parallel you drop the impedance, always. I agree entirely with lewm. You have an excellent phono stage. You do not need a SUT. You need a preamp with more gain or amps with higher sensitivity. As for SUT's ... | |
| Turntable upgrade? Yes, it would seem that way but, I am just trying to relate the advantages of an isolated turntable. It could be a Basis or SME or a Dohmann. The beauty of the Sota is that it does it at a fraction of the cost of the others and at no loss in other... | |
| Direct Drive vs. Idler Drive vs. Belt drive Atma-Sphere, I have noticed on several recent re releases and aggravating degree of rumble transferred to the record. I have always assumed this was from poor maintenance of an older lathe. Your last post would confirm this. Does anyone still make... | |
| Spectral audio today My best friend had Spectral gear. It was seriously unreliable. So bad that he switched over to Mcintosh! He has developed tinnitus with some hearing loss so reliability has become more important to him than the highest sound quality. Next, Dan D'A... | |
| Low output vs. high output cartridges Lewm, many people do prefer MI designs. They are uniformly great trackers. As for their sound, as you imply that is a matter of personal taste. The Grado Statement is certainly up there with the best MC cartridges. MM cartridges can also have pret... | |
| Table and arm combos in 13k range For 13K I would get a Sota Nova with vacuum and put a Schroder CB arm on it. Far superior to anything you have mentioned so far. The 4 points are great arms but the Schroder is an amazing arm. Some even prefer it to the SAT arm. I had a 4 point by... | |
| The best speakers over 50K For dynamic speakers the Vandersteens are excellent. When it comes to other dynamic speakers in that price range it is not better or worse. It is a matter of what flavor you like best. My own taste left dynamic speakers a long time ago. I do not l... | |
| Looking for tonearm inspiration He probably had a seizure. | |
| Mono Cartridge Chakster is absolutely right. New mono records are cut with modern groove geometry and because the groove walls never diverge from one another the groove dimensions never get as large. Point being is you want a modern stylus profile. If you have s... | |
| Low output vs. high output cartridges Absolutely, The problem for high output MC's is that they have to have many more windings to generate the high output. This greatly increases even doubles the effective mass of the moving system of the cartridge. This is bad on several levels. The... | |
| LTA - Has Anyone Had First Hand Experiance? Now that we have heard from the LTA fan club, I wonder what Atma-Sphere has to say. In LTA's marketing, without mentioning Atma- Sphere by name try to compare their ZOTL design to Atma-Sphere's OTL design. Unfortunately, there is a fair degree of ... |