rauliruegas

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Phono Preamp. With transformer or fully active
Dear @frozentundra  : "  As a general rule...."I own 5-6 SUTs and owned some others in the past. The ones I own are hard wired to not disturb the cartridge signal through the input/output connectors and are hard wired with 0.5m good IC cables.My ... 
Phono Preamp. With transformer or fully active
Dear @mglik  :  Dear @mglik  : I have no doubt that you love the Zesto unit that's a tube phono stage design.Why LP analog alternative needs a phono stage? mainly to apply the inverse RIAA curve eq. and in second place to amplify the cartridge si... 
Phono Preamp. With transformer or fully active
Dear @terry9  : Well, part of the second post and only an opinion.  I think that I have not exactly a misunderstood as you said but that I did not be specific about. Never mind, your post welcomed.R. 
Stylus shape?
I don't read or know of an audiophile that after 400-500 hours re-tipped his Lyra Titan or even after 1K.R. 
Phono Preamp. With transformer or fully active
Dear @frozentundra : "" Phono Preamp. With transformer or fully active.""Both can works fine and if you ask on which is better the answer is that mainly depends of each unit quality design and excecution quality of that design.In both designs you ... 
Stylus shape?
Dear @g_nakamoto : Ortofon use Shibata shape in some of the cartridge models.Btw, """  advanced shape sounds better, costs more, but lasts much longer..."""lasts much longer?: this is a misunderstood because the time lasting an stylus does not de... 
Inner tracks vs outer tracks
Dear @almart1 : "  May be due to better system resolution. Which bothers me a little. "A linear tracking tonearm can't improve per sé the quality recorded sound in those inner LP grooves.Any one can improve the inner grooves quality sound if: the... 
Stylus shape?
Dear @musicfan2349 :  "  what shape of stylus yields the best sound.."the stylus shape is only one of several parts in the design and manufacture of a phono cartridge and per sé is important but not determinant  in the overall cartridge quality l... 
Best cartridge <$200?
Dear @dougeyjones : "  It makes intuitive sense to me that cartridges from vinyls heyday would’ve been manufactured with higher QA standards than now,.... "Intuitive sense?, maybe to you. In the old times the cartridge main alternative was MM des... 
TT or Cartridge...what to buy?
Dear @dustin_collman : that Pro-ject Atension 10 is very good option and the Blackbird very good quality performer and obviously you will have the dealer support at your place. Good.Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS,R. 
Best cartridge <$200?
Dear @dougeyjones : Yes, it's an up-grade to the Marantz. In the other side you own 50 LPs and starting the analog " trip " and you need to learn about and you can do it with that Pro-ject combo you bid it.Latter on and according your self analog ... 
Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC?
Dear @sdrsdrsdr  : "  Trial and error is still the way, wouldn’t you agree? "certainly is an important part in the test/evaluation process and critical when we have not on hand all the information need to make the " rigth " set up that even if we... 
Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC?
Dear @sdrsdrsdr  : I posted that one problem with MM changes in loading is that normally the IC cable manufactuyrers do not states its total capacitance but it's not the only trouble we have about because the MM cartridge manufacturers almost neve... 
Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC?
Dear @sdrsdrsdr  : Good that you try the MM alternative that's better that what we can imagine.The MM loading issue is dependent of the cartridge it self ( inductance levels. ), room/system and each one of us MUSIC/sound priorities.Exis no " rules... 
Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC?
Dear friends: Here a way to improve our understanding of MM cartridge loading: https://www.tnt-audio.com/sorgenti/load_the_magnets_e.html https://www.vinylengine.com/turntable_forum/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=6674 https://www.hifisystemcompon...