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| Cable supports on the cheap... I bought plastic rebar chairs for 20 cents each and hot glued them to 4" squares of wood. I also bought steel rods from Amazon and bent them and poked them into the same squares. For heavy cables you will want bigger squares. But I've never hea... | |
| Transimpedance has too much gain? @mijostyn @lewm Thanks for that info on converting a tonearm to balanced. I also discovered VPI sells a somewhat overpriced junction box that you can use to replace the RCA box on their turntables. | |
| Transimpedance has too much gain? @gochurchgo I wasn't familiar with that Love album but listening to it on streaming it is easy to see how that guitar could quickly become irritating. I don't listen to that kind of music but I have had other preamps that produces what I call gla... | |
| Transimpedance has too much gain? The Andover Spinstage is about 71 dB of gain if I am remembering correctly and that is more than most MC Phono Preamps. But I don't hear any tonal emphasis on mine. It just sounds much much better than it should for the price. But you might fin... | |
| Anyone else using slugs instead of fuses? Comments on metals used and sound please More power to you and your ears but I used copper slugs in my Magnepan 20.7s, and PS Audio BHK preamp and BHK 300 monoblocks and heard no difference. | |
| Looking for a budget Step-up Transformer This is a very good SUT for the money. https://hifi-exquis.com/tube-transformer/616-raphaelite-dt11-stereo-mc-pole-permalloy-step-up-transformer-20047k-114-hifi-exquis.html It isn't quite as good as my DIY Lundahl LL1931 SUT but better than the ... | |
| Andover Spindeck is really good I've been listening to the Spinstage for two evenings now and it really is very good. There are some differences between all the phono stages I have right now and I would be hard pressed to choose a favorite but the Spinstage is certainly holding... | |
| Andover Spindeck is really good I have one coming on Monday. I'm going to put it up against my PS Audio Stellar Phono, the Hegel V10, and a Graham Slee Accession MC. If you buy it direct and let them add you to their mailing list it is only $225 with a 60 day trial period! | |
| Need some help picking my first MC Cartridge @alvinnir2 I have my Denon DL-103 on my Technics SL-1200GR. Even after I bought a fairly heavy Ortofon LH-4000 headshell to use it still didn't sound very special. But a friend suggested I add weight to the headshell so I Blu-tacked a nickel on ... | |
| Need some help picking my first MC Cartridge The Denon 103 is probably the best budget choice. It has a warm analog kind of sound but it doesn't offer the ultimate in soundstage or detail. I think it is best with a Step Up Transformer and the Audiotorium A23 sounds great with it but it is ... | |
| Best set-up under $20K You need a biggish room for this system and you will need to buy used to get it for around $20K but it will be astonishingly good. 1) Magnepan 20.7 $9K used 2) PS Audio BHK 300 Mono Blocks $6.5K used 3) PS AUdio BHK Signature Preamp - $3K used... | |
| Wayne's Audio Canary LOMC Cartridge Still no new observations about the Canary cartridge? | |
| PS Audio Stellar phono question @lewm I don't believe I have ever read anything that suggests XLR cables intrinsically sound better than RCA cables. They offer better noise rejection but that doesn't really have anything to do with how the cable sounds. I found in that specifi... | |
| PS Audio Stellar phono question Use your ears. I have the Stellar going into the BHK Preamp and I have tried RCA and XLR and prefer XLR for short runs with 1 meter Harmonic Technology cables. Oddly, I preferred a cheapish RCA cable over a cheapish XLR cable for 12' runs which ... | |
| Wayne's Audio Canary LOMC Cartridge Anybody have any more thoughts about the Canary cartridge relative to any other MC cartridges? |