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| Expanding questions about tubes in a preamp I've had tube preamps that were too noisy for my system's downstream gain structure (both rush noise and microphonic feedback), and no amount of super special tube selection or tube dampers or HRS damper plates or expensive isolation stands did ja... | |
| Is there an ideal (ish) cartridge output? Getting a quiet result from a MC phono stage (or MM stage with SUT) and ~ 0.5mV cartridge is fairly easy to do. It gets increasingly difficult as your cartridge output falls below that. At 0.3mV you’re usually dealing with some discernible noise (... | |
| What is the order of importance of the parts of an analogue rig? 1. Cartridge, but you need to have it well matched to a proper tonearm that won’t cripple its performance. Or else you goofed. But always start at the transducer since they impart the most coloration and your sonic preferences here will be very pe... | |
| How much will you pay for an exotic cartridge.... Agree with millercarbon’s points. Hell, sometimes with the savings you can buy a SECOND, if you get ripped off on the 1st one or some reason, and STILL come out ahead. And I really think getting ripped off is pretty rare in this game (always shop ... | |
| VAC Preamplifiers I’ve tried both the Ren V and Master in my system. Sure, the Master is better - no argument there - it fixes the V’s various minor deficiencies in bass and dynamics, etc. But personally I found it hard to quantify the cumulative effect as night-an... | |
| Are There Any Risks to Your Stylus From Using Magic Eraser Think it’s just you and me Mulveling.Likewise I still use Onzow and brushes and Last fluid.I’m more likely to damage a stylus or cantilever when swapping carts than using ME. @uberwaltz Yep looks that way. Thanks dude. And I agree - sadly, at the ... | |
| Are There Any Risks to Your Stylus From Using Magic Eraser Most of us M.E. users also use it in conjunction with brushes and/or gel cleaners - all 3 in my case (I have both the Onzow and DS Audio gels). There is no "schmutz" to be accumulated unless you’re doing this totally wrong. Long bristle brushes sh... | |
| Re wire a Graham arm wand Typically, I would recommend sending an item back to the manufacture, but based on my experience with Graham, if you want your arm back in less than a year , look elsewhere. Sadly, this is an important consideration. Do politely reach out to Graha... | |
| Problem with Rogue Medusa Amp (I need advice) Just superficially from google images, a Pharaoh bypassing its very mediocre Alps RK27 volume pot (i.e. unity inputs) looks a LOT like the Medusa topology - both have a pair of the same Hypex UcD 400 modules (older than nCore in the new Dragon), a... | |
| Are There Any Risks to Your Stylus From Using Magic Eraser Lol I’ve used it on my Koetsus over 3 years no problem. I don’t just dip and lift either. I dip into a corner of a cut wedge and carefully rotate back and forth a bit to “scrub”. Sometimes I even add a drop of water. Yes, even on my Blue Lace Diam... | |
| Are tubes really “warm”? Not necessarily. I’ve heard certain tube circuits and/or certain tubes that could peel paint. On the flip side, some badly designed/implemented tube amps can have massive roll-off and gobs of THD, and that can be used to perpetuate the stereotype ... | |
| Installed bulk foil resistors in phono amp @noromance VAC offers an "SE" upgrade for their standalone Renaissance phono stage that adds some 30+ of those Z-foil resistors and Jupiter copper/beeswax coupling caps. Still not a cheap stage by any means, but $14.4K is a hell of lot less than 6... | |
| best preamp ever - cost is no object Haha zombie thread, etc. This kind of question is the high-end counterpart to "I need the best fully balanced tube preamp with 5 inputs and remote for under $1K...go!". At least this way is more fun - but really nobody is gaining any insight from ... | |
| Blue Hawaii tube amp Are you running some custom built / commissioned Blue Hawaii, a Mjolnir Audio (Iceland) Blue Hawaii, an older Headamp Blue Hawaii (circa early/mid 2000s), or the more modern Headamp Blue Hawaii SE? Just curious.The warnings against KT77 are correc... | |
| Zu Druid vs Tannoy Prestige or Classic.. need your help Unless you can get your ears on the Zu's again in short order, I'd stick with the Tannoys, which you know you like with far greater certainty at this point. Tannoys have controlled dispersion and so work pretty well in most rooms. And the 101 dB... |