rauliruegas
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| Review: Empire EDR.9 Moving Magnet Cartridge Dear Eldartford: The phono stages in the Essential 3150 ( MC/MM ) are similar about the inverse RIAA eq. but different in some other subjects, for example: the MC stage works with bipolar transistors and the MM one with Fets. We found that the Fet... | |
| Review: Empire EDR.9 Moving Magnet Cartridge Dear groovey: +++++ " I have been told this Empire EDR.9 outperforms many MC Cartridges costing many times the price paid. " +++++And is totally true. The EDR.9 ( that I own ) like other high end MM cartridges compete ( bis a bis ) with any MC car... | |
| Experience with Raul's Essential 3150 Dear Piedpiper: " cartridge floating ": pin 1 disconnected.Regards and enjoy the music.raul. | |
| better tonearm for SME 20/2 Dear mooner: That's right.Regards and enjoy the music.raul. | |
| better tonearm for SME 20/2 Dear Aubullience: Very good TT. In my humble opinion the choice of tonearm depends more of which cartridge you finally own.If you decide for the Lyra the SME V is a better way to go and if you decide for the SME V ( I prefer the IV ) then try to s... | |
| Experience with Raul's Essential 3150 Dear Gregadd: " As well meaning as Raul is he chose to visit those whose opinion is most trusted here on audiogon. I don't blame him. "The fact was that I choose to make a personal delivery with the Matt Essential who lives in Austin, TX, then I a... | |
| Experience with Raul's Essential 3150 Dear friends: " Brass sounded brassier with the CAT than through the Essential ".From my point of view I would like to address this misunderstanding:other than many critical design differences between the CAT and the Essential 3150 there are at le... | |
| Experience with Raul's Essential 3150 Dear friends: One other aspect that could help to understand the Essential quality performance is that is designed through bipolar transistor technology and that is build through only two gain stages.I don't know any other active high gain Phonopr... | |
| The final Act in a study in preamps the ART 3 Dear Brent: I never had the opportunity to heard the CJ one but I already heard the Omega, Callisto, Hovland, Spectral and Vac, all of them very good units.I own a self design Phonolinepreamp named Essential 3150 that maybe could challenge the CJ ... | |
| Experience with Raul's Essential 3150 Dear Albert: Yes, I forgot: sorry.Btw, I don't know which balance configuration is using Purist: we recomended the cartridge floating one that is what Desmond and Mattew are using.Regards and enjoy the music.Raul. | |
| Experience with Raul's Essential 3150 Dear friends: There is something that you all have to know: during each Essential presentation on those audio system the signal from the cartridge was passed to the Essential through unbalanced ( RCA ) way, no one of those audio systems had a bala... | |
| RE: set up tips for Cello Reference mc cartridge Dear Daren: Jonathan is right, that non-cantilever Cello cartridge was build by Ikeda.I own the Ikeda REX9 and if in any form the Cello one has the same sound signature than mine then you will be really happy with it.The Ikeda cartridges are reall... | |
| What Turntable to Buy Dear Clarock: VPI with a better tonearm than the 10.5i.Along with the Aries you could take a look to Acoustic Signature and Galibier TT alternatives: both are great sound designs.Btw, which cartridge do you own or think to play on that TT?, the ch... | |
| Experience with Raul's Essential 3150 Dear friends: There are somethings that belongs to this thread and that help to understand the Essential 3150 quality performance:- the Essential was not designed thinking in any one of you ( with all my respect to any one of you ), it is designed... | |
| Experience with Raul's Essential 3150 Dear friends: That was a mistake: 3150 = MMMCL , is the right way and the other is 2150 not 2950.Regards and enjoy the music.Raul. |