mulveling
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| Dedicated Vinyl system next upgrade? That’s nice gear. I would recommend two upgrades:1. If you have the magnetic-bearing Concept tonearm, change that out to a rigid bearing arm: e.g. in the Clearaudio amp, a Satisfy (good) or Tracer (better). You may not have severe issues with the ... | |
| Is my Stylus damaged? I assume that was with the record sinning, and stylus repeating in the end groove? That could be bad - because of the grime that collects in the groove and rubs against stylus without cleaning cycles to break it up. Possibly much worse that equal ... | |
| Upgrade my tone arm? Matching arm to cartridge is extremely important. Who or what gave you the idea the Triplanar would be better suited to the Miyajima, and why (i.e. make sure you’re not just going on price)? The Shilabe seems to be very low compliance, and the exc... | |
| Woofer pumping possibly due to tube amp when playing vinyl Despite swapping out turntable/cart/phono stage, your constant factors here are: your rack/mounting/floor under the turntable, its location (relative to the speakers too), and your (lack of) clamping over the whole record surface. You could leave ... | |
| Looking for ideas on Lyra Delos - muddy middle @daveyf brings up another good point. 70dB of active JFET gain is a LOT of gain for a cartridge with a healthy 0.6mV of output. You could be cutting it close to the stage's overload margins? Paradox seems like a small shop, and it's possible the f... | |
| Looking for ideas on Lyra Delos - muddy middle I would definitely check the rest of that signal path. I’ve run Stax and vinyl and it can be simply sublime, but Stax amps push out a ton of gain (almost as much as an MC phono stage, 54 - 60 dB typical), at very high voltage rails (+/-300V and hi... | |
| My #@%$ Cat Destroyed My ARC REF 5SE. Soliciting Suggestions. Very sorry to hear, OP. My girlfriend has 2 cats, and I mostly enjoy them, but they’re pretty dumb animals. Their curiosity serves more for destructive powers than intelligent learning. Yes, they have tweaked up a valued piece of audio gear I had ... | |
| Why Do 12" Tonearms Cost So Much More Than 9"? It probably depends a lot on the design of the arm, and the available tooling etc, whether a longer arm tube is very difficult for the manufacturer to make. Clearaudio Universal is an example where the price difference is reasonable - the 12” vers... | |
| Phono Preamp. With transformer or fully active SUTs are as diverse in their sound as phono stages are (maybe even more so), so it’s difficult to put all the stages with built-in SUTs into a bucket. And as mentioned by chakster, any given SUT is not nearly as adaptable to a wide range of cartri... | |
| Need some turntable guidance @ctorAgree that perhaps it’s time to look at a newer amp to replace that Bryston. I think a lot of amp makers have made great strides in sound quality over the last 15-20 years, including Bryston themselves! Unfortunately the prices have gone up, ... | |
| First impression: Herron VTPH-2A phono preamp @jw944tsAl’s math is right. A doubling of output power to your speakers corresponds *approximately* (not exactly) to +3 decibels of increased SPL. But the gain from a phono stage is not amplifying power - it is amplifying the source signal’s volta... | |
| Need some turntable guidance Your gear is mostly still extremely nice by today’s standards. You obviously put a lot of thought into system building. After checking into the condition of your styli (potentially upgrading to a new MC cartridge), I’d look hard at the PS Audio ph... | |
| Why was the entry level line at Audio Research eliminated? Chinese amps have taken over that segment of the market (tube preamps, tube amps). American brands which formerly occupied that space have mostly had to move upscale (e.g. ARC, VAC), or die off. Rogue is one rare exception, that produces at any sc... | |
| VPI Signature Cartridge Ideas VPI SIg w/ Fatboy Unipivot arm I used to have Kensington SE, lovely speakers. Currently own Canterbury GR. I know how it’s important not to push a cartridge or source with hot treble through these speakers. The Cadenza Bronze is great for this. I actually ran its predecessor, t... | |
| Best isolation platform for a turntable with suspension? A spring suspension engineered into a turntable is the best isolation. You already have that. You probably just need to get a more rigid rack underneath it. Cheap flimsy racks (e.g. VTI) are the absolute worst enemy to quality turntables. At least... |