o_holter
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| Lyra and OMA @JCarr - thanks a lot for advice! I am now testing added mass to my SME V arm with Lyra Atlas. Ca 5g at the top of the headshell, 30g on top of the counterweight. This way, I did not have to screw the counterweight further back. I am using coins f... | |
| What Does It Take To Surpass A SME V? Re SME V with Kimber KCAG as phono cable I have used this cable for a number of years without problems - not much hum. I compared to a Hovland phono cable, no big difference. I liked the airy sonic signature of the KCAG as interconnects, thats wh... | |
| Lyra and OMA Thanks to jcarr of Lyra for interesting information. He wrote: "The Lyras will work OK in tonearms of 10~12g eff. mass (for example SME Type V, Technics SL-1200G), but will sound progressively better as the effective mass increases. Normally I’d ... | |
| I just discovered Van Der Graff Generator... Check out House with no door, on the H to He album. Great, spooky, as fresh as it was at the time. | |
| Powered speakers show audiophiles are confused Earlier in this thread, thespeakerdude argued that my Atma-sphere MA1 amps wont be a good match for many active speakers (testing the passive speaker in the pair). He showed 1990s statistics of the amp performance. My amp is upgraded to mk 3.2 sta... | |
| What Does It Take To Surpass A SME V? miljostyn wrote: If you are looking for the ultimate pitch stability you need to check out vacuum clamping. I wonder, how would this help me, unless the LP slides or does not stay stuck to the platter? I use a center clamp and see no friction. M... | |
| Speakers for Atma Sphere M60 mk3 Whatever your decision, I think careful amp/speaker matching is a key. My Atma-sphere MA-1 amps sound good with many speakers, at 8 ohm or even below, but they sound great with 12 or more ohm and high efficiency speakers. Even my former Krell FPB6... | |
| Lyra Atlas experiences Just a small update. My Atlas 2018 is still working well. No problems. I know I should wash my LPs but dry cleaning with the Mobile fidelity brush works ok for most of them, not much clicks or mistracking. Maybe it sounds a bit better with a bit o... | |
| Powered speakers show audiophiles are confused thespeakerdude wrote: 02-20-2023 at 08:31pm @o_holter I just searched a measurement of the MA-1 amp and the figure they arrived at was 10.5 ohms output resistance. There are very few speakers that will not experience a huge chang... | |
| Powered speakers show audiophiles are confused I am interested in active speakers but for now disappointed. When I run the passive speaker from my main system tube amp, instead of the amp in the active speaker, it sounds way better (Sony, Elac etc). But you can't stick my Atma-sphere MA-1 int... | |
| Speakers for Atma Sphere M60 mk3 Check Audiokinesis speakers, very OTL-friendly. | |
| Speakers for Atma Sphere M60 mk3 I tried the MA1s (bigger brother of M60) with 4 ohm speakers, including the top of the line (at the time) Dynaudio Consequence. No good. 8 ohm - yes quite good. Varying. Spelz autoformers - I tried and was not convinced. Veils the image a bit an... | |
| Solving the "complex music problem"? ahuvia - we converge - nice with a thread that actually brings agreement. The recording (and production) sure means a lot. A quite simple but important factor is playback volume. I can remember from way back when, turning down the volume on hard-... | |
| Solving the "complex music problem"? I agree with many points in this thread - how to improve the playback system, and not least, the integration with the room. Yet I think many problems of ’complex music’ are inherent in the recording. You can reduce them in the playback but they do... | |
| Testing for Dirty Electrical Power Try your phono stage, at high volume, without playing records. If you dont hear noise from your speakers, turning other equipment or power circuits on/off, from mobile phones, etc - maybe, don't worry, its not a big problem. |