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| EAR vs Audio Note preamp Just to correct a mistake above, the phono sections in the EAR 868P preamplifier and 88PB phono stage are valve + FET designs, whereas the one in the EAR 912 is all valve. All are so-called LCR designs which use an inductor rather than relying o... | |
| Miyajima MADAKE experience Well is a year long enough to talk about experience?My conclusion is that the Madake is the most natural cartridge I've ever had in my system (compared to Audio Note Io2, assorted high-end SPUs, Koetsu Red Standard and Sig, various Shelters, Dynav... | |
| Miyajima MADAKE experience Coming rather late to this thread. Along with a stable of SPUs (stereo and mono) and an Ikeda 9TT currently I have previously owned the Miyajima Waza, Shilabe and Kansui, as well as mono models Kotetu, Premium BE, 78 and Zero. (I still have the Ze... | |
| Miyajima MADAKE experience Sorry only just seen this post.My Hashimotos came from Mr Isao Asakura, a Japanese long based in the USA and who trades on the site tube-amps.net - they were delivered to me in Japan on a holiday visit, to a beautiful onsen in Kyoto prefecture. (... | |
| Miyajima MADAKE experience Interesting thread. My initial experience borrowing the Waza (good but not quite all it could be, clearly an early design) led me to buy a Shilabe, then a couple of years later, a Kansui. The Kansui is superb. I've owned some pretty high-end cartr... | |
| The pivoted arm experiment is over Very late to this thread .. I've had a go at setting my FR64S (on a TD124) at 231.5 and I like what I'm hearing.What I'm wondering is the correct arm interface to stylus tip distange for this arrangement ... I have things set at SPU distance (52mm... | |
| Short report on EAR Acute CD player I totally agree, having just bought one of these. I wouldn't say it's quite in the same league as a top vinyl system (my Townshend Rock Reference/Excalibur/Lyra Helikon/Whest PS20-MU20 for instance) but for CD it's something else. I haven't quite ... |