paulgardner
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| Hesitant to upgrade my phono cartridge @audphile1 the Herron VTPH-2A uses loading plugs which I do not use. Keith Herron encouraged me to not use the loading plugs if possible. I believe he called it “infinite loading” when using this phono stage without the loading plugs. | |
| Hesitant to upgrade my phono cartridge @tooblue the SL stands for Shibata Low output. I have checked the tracking force. It’s at 2g, which it where the manufacture recommends. I can definitely raise the arm a tiny amount. I just might try that. Thanks. | |
| Hesitant to upgrade my phono cartridge @tooblue the cart has roughly 1500 hours maybe a touch more. I had the cart mounted by a local shop when I had the arm replaced due to ignorance on my part when I broke the azimuth adjustment tension wire. I have not adjusted anything since then. ... | |
| What's It All About? Every system is a slave to the recording. | |
| Balance control? @woofman74 fair enough. Thanks for the input to you and everyone here. Much appreciated! | |
| Balance control? @mulveling its damn good looking cart! | |
| Balance control? @mulveling wow thanks for the breakdowns. Super helpful! Sounds like the Zebrawood L is a good place to start. Like I said I really like the Hana SL but I think it’s time for a change and I hoping to smooth a bit of the top end harshness of the B&... | |
| Balance control? @mulveling yeah the channel imbalance is a challenge for sure! I did swap the L/R cartridge leads for a bit but went back because I couldn’t live with the flipped image. It did help though. I really appreciate your replies here. Super insightfu... | |
| Balance control? @theophile its not an inexpensive cartridge. | |
| Balance control? @frogman good call on the subs. Mine are in opposite placement of each other. One in the front corner, the other is just to the left of my listening position. I tried turning them both off. Imbalance is still present. What if I told you that the i... | |
| Balance control? @fuzztone yeah my main concern is sound degradation. | |
| Balance control? @sns room is symmetrical and hearing is good. No wax. | |
| Balance control? @solypsa I have not tried that one. I did swap the interconnect on the phono pre but couldn’t really tell if the imbalance moved or not. Here’s what I’m running: Hana SL cart Clearaudio Ovation table w/ Magnify tonearm Herron Audio VTPH-2... | |
| Basic switch....should I upgrade? Definitely get a TT. I mean look at that thing! | |
| SYNERGESTIC RESEARCH - GALILEO SX INTERCONNECT- XLR its difficult to find what real people think about it Real people don’t buy $10k cables. They just don’t. |