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| Transfiguration Orpheus - Has anyone tried it ? The preceeding comments sound hauntingly parallel to those of the ZYX contingent just as the UNIverse was making its debut. Up til then, they gushed about the Airy 3 as the ultimate ZYX offering. BTW, didn't I read somewhere about an 'improved' UN... | |
| Twin Lead Shielded 4yanx, I don't think this animal exists because you see. the idea behind twinlead has to do with the (elimination of) the capacitance between the two wires by spacing them apart a certain mimimum distance. If you were to throw a shield around it, ... | |
| Cartridge alignment help. In addition to SD's comments, you might want to re-check the stylus overhang, and them check/adjust the cartridge yaw (rotation in the headshell viewed from above) To do this properly, you need an alignment protractor (I like the DB, but there are... | |
| Optimal loading for Dynavector xx2 Don'tcha just hate when that happens?!! | |
| Power Cable Recommendation These XLO References are excellent 12 AWG cords, well shielded, good Hubbell connectors etc. Not "floppy" flexible, but bend easily and won't pull your equipment off the rack:http://cls.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?cablpowr&1151333032This guy h... | |
| Is my Audio Alchemy DAC outdated? Herman is right, but don't dump it (it's not worth that much anyway). I have one too, and it's still way better than the DAC in any under $300 DVD player.Recently, I discovered it will even accept/decode 24/96 sources (I was amazed!) | |
| Optimal loading for Dynavector xx2 Flg2001: I agree with Xlr8or (based on what you said re: balance toward high frequency) and therefore want to revise my original recommendations.I would start lower, maybe as low as 40 ohms or sufficiently low to hear "enough-but-poor-quality-bass... | |
| What's snapping? It's not static if it happens with all sources (about 80% sure on that one) and not cabling (I agree w/ Porziob) then I'd guess RFI -- probably not a faulty ballast however (although could be, but that's not the kind of RFI they produce.)I'd guess... | |
| whats the best styus cleaner gel Zaikesman, I think you can still get the Zerodust for 1/2 price from Mehran (the ZYX guy) at Sorasound. You can buy a lifetime supply (one package) of Magic Eraser at Home Depot for around five bucks (maybe less, I cant remember)You're probably ri... | |
| whats the best styus cleaner gel I second the Magic Eraser. I put crazy-glue on a plastic coffee stirrer and jamb it into a sugar-cubed size piece. Then with the TA in its rest (locked down) I lift it up against the stylus/cantilever and then back down. No back-and-forth action! ... | |
| whats the best styus cleaner gel You can also simply wipe the Zerodust with an alcohol swab/pad, without removing it from its case, and it'll be ready to go in about 20 sec. (when the alcohol evaporates.) | |
| How to set SRA after determining true vertical? Excuuuuuze me, but when did this turn into a musical preferences thread? | |
| AC cord polarity?? Does it matter??????? Metro, the answer to:"In most homes, aren't the neutral and "ground" combined within the breaker box?"Is no. And this is very important to understanding the "leakage" problem oulined in the article you cite above.The neutral is zero relative to th... | |
| How to set SRA after determining true vertical? Andrew, I only mentioned the business about setting new carts' VTF at the high end of the range because it is necessary to do that in order to get the cantilever/coil assembly to "line up" squarely in the magnetic flux field (maximum output).Later... | |
| How to set SRA after determining true vertical? Andrew, don't be skeptical. There is absolutely no mystery here. It's all physics and simple geometry. The most important thing to remember when approaching the matter of setting correct SRA, is to have all the other settings perfect beforehand. I... |