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| 4-500 $ cartridge for Project Debut Carbon ? It depends on the size/strength of the magnet and its location, which is a matter of the cartridge's design more than high vs. low output. The Ortofon Kontrapunkt & Cadenza lines have their magnets positioned very low (relative to the stylus) ... | |
| 4-500 $ cartridge for Project Debut Carbon ? Also -- I've played with a Debut Carbon, and could feel the motor's rumble causing vibration at the headshell. Not confidence inspiring. It's a nice enough entry-level package, but choose another table if you wish to scale the cartridge food chain... | |
| 4-500 $ cartridge for Project Debut Carbon ? For that setup I'd go only as high as an Ortofon 2M Blue or Bronze before upgrading the table. While a little bit of a gamble, you could go the used route (100-400 hours) and buy a better cart, if you're planning on upgrading the table later (soon... | |
| Phantom + A90 question I have no help to contribute here, but feel your pain. I had a hard time even getting a Koetsu secured flat to my 10" armwand. The fact that it rides way back in the headshell for proper overhang causes issues due to first the blue dot (which I re... | |
| Tannoy Westminster amp matching question. To be honest though, it doesn't make much sense to go down a route you wouldn't otherwise, just for amps that are WAY off the beaten path. The Atmasphere may be a good option because it'll serve as a top flight preamp whether you stick with these ... | |
| Tannoy Westminster amp matching question. Wow, 600 ohms input -- what were they thinking?? Sometimes it's hard to tell whether such a wacky spec is real, or a result of "lost in translation". Based on your experiences, sounds like this one is real.Preamps that will handle 600 ohms are ver... | |
| just auditioned tannoy yorkminster The Tannoy Prestige Pepperpot models are *extremely* revealing of upstream gear. And, this is the rare exception where that doesn't mean the speakers themselves are sterile / analytical / bright / unmusical. Just put together great sounding gear t... | |
| Step up transformer for Benz Ebony TR cartridge Dailycitrus,Congrats! It's a really superb SUT at a reasonable price. It made a significant improvement on the VAC Renaissance III's phono stage (which had a Lundahl MC SUT built-in), and now that I'm getting more used to the sonic signature of th... | |
| PMC vs. Salk Sound Speakers. Which is better? Mclsound,If that's true, then I can at least understand why you're upset. Charging $900 for basic replacement grilles is not what you'd expect from a company that took pride in its work, ownership of its products, and prioritized customer satisfac... | |
| PMC vs. Salk Sound Speakers. Which is better? The whole hifi industry -- where $200K speakers are the new 100K speaker, and the landscape is littered with 1m/2m cable runs that each cost as much as good cars -- and in selecting a product to bash as overpriced, you choose a nice looking $14K p... | |
| Step up transformer for Benz Ebony TR cartridge I'd look for a SUT with a step-up ratio of at least 40:1. That'll yield 32dB of gain, and the cartridge will see a load of 29 ohms (assuming the SUT is hooked into a 47K input). That should be sufficient; the loading would be analogous to that of ... | |
| Magico S5 vs Tannoy Westminster Royal SE The Tannoy models with pepperpot/alnico drivers (from Kensington SE on up) are all more resolving than the tulip waveguides (the Churchill being the ONLY possible exception here), but they don't have anything close to a "hifi, edgy" character unle... | |
| Rogue Owners Unite The M120's run so hot because they're a cathode bias design. It's tough to combine high-power cathode bias and PCB without issue. Such a configuration is better served by point-to-point wiring. The current model Rogue amps all use fixed/adjustable... | |
| Magico S5 vs Tannoy Westminster Royal SE The Yorkminster, Canterbury, and Westminster SE should all do very well in a room that size. You may wish for another couple feet beyond that 16' with the Westminsters...but if I could go for them in that situation, then I'd probably do so. The 23... | |
| Tonearm/Cartridge Compatability Hi Greg, Fortunately Ortofon always uses the proper @10 Hz dynamic compliance measurement, which is what's expected by most of the online resonance calculators (like the one you were using). Static compliance (i.e. 0 Hz) numbers will be much highe... |