piedpiper
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| budget Cables / Interconnects recommendations? Many cables will not make much difference... and then there are the ones that do, even in an inexpensive system, regardless of where in your system you put them, and not necessarily for the reasons of basic engineering that the engineers will poin... | |
| Reversing absolute phase As a recording engineer myslef I agree with Tbg. You just have to know for sure what the poarity of your equipment is. The only caveat is when you're multi-micing with lots of bleed which is something to avoid anyway for this very reason. It is ob... | |
| Reversing absolute phase were the world that simple. | |
| Reversing absolute phase A manufarturer's choice to include polarity reversal is based on budget and the sonic dgredation involved in the extra stage that most designs would require, and that of the switch to control it. | |
| Reversing absolute phase Tbg,this is a little confusing but I believe what Dopogue meant was that there is no qualitative difference between the two in and of themsleves, except relative to keeping the playback polarity the same as the original, which only shows up as sig... | |
| Reversing absolute phase not an excuse, just a reality. The much more common issue is polarity inverting circuits. An engineer mus be cogniscent of the polarity of every unit in his arsenal of gizmos and make sure to align them. I would hazard that most modern truly profe... | |
| Gain and Loading Second the 44db gain setting as probably being appropriate. What load settings are available to you on this unit? It is likely there are very limited settings, if any, between 47K and 1K anyway. As you go lower the most obvious difference you'll h... | |
| Reversing absolute phase There's a bit of confusion here between these posts. In any electrical situation, there is a positive and return leg of the circuit. Sometimes the return leg is synonimous with ground and sometimes there are discreet positive, negative and ground ... | |
| Xv-1s competative carts mention in latest TAS The Airtight and the Transfiguration Orpheus would be my guess. | |
| New TT or old here's to roaming... | |
| New TT or old Marty,good question. I don't pretend to know what theoretical advantages will, in the end, represent an improvement. just sharing the lay of the land as I see it. Perhaps a sufficiently coupled and inert platter/record interface needs no mechanica... | |
| New TT or old Elevick,B&O TTs only take B&O carts and replacment styli are very rare and now expensive. There is another thread discussing this issue at length.Lewm,good point and obviously and extenstion of mine, but debatable with some of the latest i... | |
| New TT or old Another thought:Turntable technology, at its best, has definitely evolved since the vintage of your gear. At the affordable end, though, you may still do better with an older design (at used prices). However, if you are willing and able to spend t... | |
| New TT or old In case you're not aware, the B&O cartridges are significantly better than the tables were and have garnered quite a following. They are only available now through an arrangement with Soundsmith, unless you luck into a NOS(new old stock) one. ... | |
| walker proscenium Tbg,your writing is perfectly clear. One excellent component does not a system make. |