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| Help me rebirth my old turntable Hemoncdoc, I’m a radoncdoc! Atmashere is entirely correct. The materials they use to use for cantilever suspensions dried out and even cracked. Guaranteed that is your problem. I second either the Grado Gold or the Ortofon Blue. You’re table is mu... | |
| Turntable that will be around heavy foot steps? You have only two choices, SOTA or SME, the suspended tables only. Both are excellent tables by any measure. The SOTA Cosmos is an incredible bargain. It is just as good as the SME and 1/2 the price. You have a little more versatility with the SME... | |
| Is it common for tubes to outweigh the cost of the amp or preamp? I would NEVER spend more on tubes than the amp cost. There are plenty of modern tubes that sound perfectly fine. The real issue is with driver and preamp/phono amp tubes and that is noise. RAM Labs has super low noise versions of many of these. I ... | |
| KEF LS50 Need Help Torxx, It is easier to integrate subs if you use a higher crossover point. This only works if you have two subs. Any good sub should be able to run up to 125 Hz w/o getting boomy. Put the subs just to the inside of the LS 50s turn them sideways so... | |
| Bryston or Pass Labs Pass Labs by leaps and bounds | |
| Amplifier current vrs watts; why is current more important? With digital room control you can do whatever you want as long as you have enough power, volts and current to support the corrections. Power is everything in a SOTA system. The problem with low power high efficiency solutions is that power require... | |
| Cartridge Impedance Lewm is entirely correct. For LOMC cartridges the input impedance should be set at 10 times the internal impedance of the cartridge or a little above anywhere between 50 and 100 ohms covers most modern cartridges. It is not one of those areas wher... | |
| Amplifier current vrs watts; why is current more important? Hi atmasphere. I love your amps by the way. If I had reasonably normal loudspeakers I'd have a pair for sure. I have my eye on a pair of Soundlabs which I understand do wonderfully with your MA 2s.I am not sure I understand your last statement. Ar... | |
| Tube Pre Amp or Tube Phono stage Davey I'll second tomwh you want to get a tube phono stage. A 6922 base unit like some of the older ARC units will have tight bass and extended highs leaning more towards the SS side of things. A 12AX7 based unit will give you warmer bass and soft... | |
| SME Setup With Slotted Headshell That is highly unfortunate. Great cartridge for that tone arm! It's going to sound great. Most Protractors use LofgrenA. Mike Fremer prefers Lofgren B. I don't know anyone who likes Stevenson. It improves distortion at the end of the record and g... | |
| SME Setup With Slotted Headshell Hi dhcod. The three important variables here are effective tonearm length, overhang and offset angle. The sliding head shell is a great addition. There is no industry standard for stylus position in space relative to the mounting holes. If you use... | |
| Does removing anti-skating really improve sound? Lewn Theoretically you are correct in that varying tangency will change the force vector but in real life the error is so small it does not account for much. You are mistaking velocity with record speed. As the modulation increases so does velocit... | |
| Cartridge Recommendations I'll second the Lyra Delos | |
| Does removing anti-skating really improve sound? Actually Lewm groove velocity takes into account the length of the path the stylus travels through the groove. The more tortuous the higher the velocity. The force required to move the stylus back and forth is seen by the system as friction. So, t... | |
| Does removing anti-skating really improve sound? Larry, yes when the groove velocity (modulation) increases friction of the stylus in the groove increases increasing the skating force. Groove velocity also decreases as you move to the center of the record. Now, do you set your tracking force to ... |