paulgardner
Responses from paulgardner
| Next step in Turntable I went to the Herron VTPH-2A from that same phono preamp you currently have. The Herron is $2500 and it’s worth far more given its performance. You DO NO need to spend $5k on a phone stage. Go hunt down a Herron and be set for life. We’re in the s... | |
| Herron VTPH-2A discontinued That’s a bummer. Thanks inflation. I own a VPTH-2A and love it! Aside from switching out tube when they croak, I wonder how long one can expect a unit like this to last? | |
| Channel imbalance with turntable playback @pragmasi Yeah I was only swapping the cart wires to see if the imbalance changed. Not intending to leave it that way. | |
| Channel imbalance with turntable playback @pragmasis I spoke too soon. The imbalance is still there but it’s on the right side now. I think after listening to the left leaning sound for so long it just seemed more balanced when swapped. I have since swapped the phono inputs back and will ... | |
| Channel imbalance with turntable playback @chakster even if I do find phase or polarity problems, how would I go about adjusting those? | |
| Channel imbalance with turntable playback Yeah that’s what I suspect after doing some research. Does having the L&R inputs swapped doing anything to the sound quality? Thanks for the reply! | |
| what system musicians prefer? Do they care? Neil Young cares. | |
| Lack of Female Representation It comes down to males are generally more interested in things and females are more interested in people. This is why you see more male than female engineers and more female than male nurses. | |
| Popping & crackling please help!☹️ Thanks for the replies! So I just checked the bias in the tubes and two of the positions bias’ were way off! No idea how that happened but it seems to be better now! Wild! I will make sure everything is still good later on today when I have time b... | |
| Cartridge upgrade? @petg60 Yeah I’m kinda leaning toward just upgrading the turntable. Thanks for the thought. @big_greg thanks. I’m now thinking I’ll put the money toward upgrading the turntable before pulling the trigger on a different cartridge. | |
| Cartridge upgrade? @tablejockey cool. Thanks, I’ll look at the blue and the ART9 | |
| Cartridge upgrade? @dover Thanks. Yeah I’ll look into Soundsmith too | |
| Cartridge upgrade? @big_greg Yeah I’ve been considering upgrading my turntable too. I really like the Concept but it is very difficult to isolate with the magnetic bearing arm. I like the aesthetic of Clearaudio tt’s. I have my eye on the Wood w/ Satisfy arm. Or may... | |
| Cartridge upgrade? @dodgealum awesome! I will do that. Thanks | |
| Stereo RELs, two different sizes? @fuzztone Ha yeah. I only say stereo referring to more than one sub. I believe Rel calls two subs “stereo subs”. Not claiming I hear stereo bass. |