rauliruegas

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TONEARM DAMPING : DAMPED OR NOT ? ? USELESS ? ? WELCOMED ? ?
Dear @mijostyn : The worst deaf-man is the one that does not wants hear in the same way that the worst blind-man is the one that does not wants see.Know you or not and rigth from your first post in the thread you did not posted any evidence, fact,... 
TONEARM DAMPING : DAMPED OR NOT ? ? USELESS ? ? WELCOMED ? ?
Dear @dover  :  "  Tonearm damping is a bandaid for poorly designed arms or turntables and/or mismatched arm/cartridge.  "A bandaid?, well all after market devices as: protractors, mats, tip toes, still points, clamps, treatment, amp damping, TT ... 
Copper, silver, or gold MC cartridge coils?
The explanation about the Sony came from a site that reviewed item not from JC.R. 
Copper, silver, or gold MC cartridge coils?
Dear friends : In the long MM thread J.Carr touted a lot the Sony LOMC cartridges and especially the 55/88 top of the line and he did it because not the coils wire type but because its unique coils wiring shape:""  The Figure 8 coil was meant to ... 
Copper, silver, or gold MC cartridge coils?
Dear @mijostyn : I think that the more expensive high output ( MM/MI ) cartridges are the ones coming from SoundSmith and PL never says he is using silver or gold wire in the coils but cooper.No singler vintage HO MM/MI use silver wire in its coil... 
Copper, silver, or gold MC cartridge coils?
Dear @edgewear : Yes you are rigth because Lyra asked for the Parnassus sample to build the Olympos and yes too with the Koetsu that does not needs a donor cartridge.Yes, different application sonic benefits.R. 
Copper, silver, or gold MC cartridge coils?
Dear @edgewear :  You are rigth the Colibri samples sound a little different in between.I owned wood/plastic body models and cooper/Gold ones I never had the opportunity to listen the platinum one.My preference with the Colibri go to the low outpu... 
16 ohm speakers: any amp sounds better with more resolution. speaker cables less critical.
Dear friends: in other thread with main subject: all tube phono stage and audiophile named Wavestreams unit that by coincidence years ago ( along other audio friends. ) when I was traveling in California ( La Joya. ) I had the opportunity to liste... 
Copper, silver, or gold MC cartridge coils?
Don : Do you think that these kind of music lovers/audiophiles buy or bought their cartridges because the cartridge coil wire type/kind?, no way almost no one decides on a cartruige thinking on that specific characteristic because it's just unimpo... 
Copper, silver, or gold MC cartridge coils?
Dear @don_c55  and friends : I think that this example could help to support what I posted about the importance priotiy of cartridge wire type that I said is not so important as we could think.This gentleman own several top phono cartridges includ... 
Copper, silver, or gold MC cartridge coils?
Dear @don_c55 :  Everything is important in the cartridge quality performance and certainly the kind of wire in the coils it's but not so important to define the cartridge signature because all depends of the whole cartridge design and in particul... 
Analog Lp
@melm  : Thk's, God bless you.R. 
Analog Lp
Dear @melm : First than all sorry that my post made that your anger goes out at that high level, was not my intention but I’m sure that after you posted you feel better because than anger gone.May be I’m all what you said but I’m not to sure abou... 
Analog Lp
Dear @melm  : ""  sometimes made to sound snappier! More treble, more bass. ""and what's wrong with that because that's the way live MUSIC seated at nera field position as it's where the recording microphones are " seated ".Problem is that you d... 
Pure tube phono preamp
Dear @stuogawa : Really good system and that 901 is very good cartridge ( I owned ) with that classic TT/tonearm combination: Sota/ET.Yes, you need to add that DAC.Enjoy your playing ! ! R.