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MC transformers - what do they sound like?
Dear gregad and Downunder: I would like to know your address. Btw, if any one is interested about please e-mail your address.Regards and enjoy the music.Raul. 
Sumiko Celebration Arming
Dear 4yanx: I try my Celebration not only in the SME tonearm but on the Mission Mechanic, Audiocraft and the Morech DP6. The Mission Mechanic is in some aspects similar to the SME one but it does not match very well with the Celebration. Other tha... 
Ideal TT & Arm for the following top cartridges...
Dear Norm: +++++ " Boy was I floored when a capacitor change (at $18 to $35 each) impacted the sonic signature significantly more than an IC, PC and tube change. " +++++This statement tell you what you are really hearing: to that capacitor not the... 
Ideal TT & Arm for the following top cartridges...
Dear Sirspeedy: Unfortunatelly all is in the " way " that you post.I think that we are putting the " finger where it hurts " and maybe it is time to make a " stop " in our system race and try to " understand " the PHONOPREAMP " figure/real importa... 
Ideal TT & Arm for the following top cartridges...
Dear Jeff: Direct coupled. Between others: Boulder, Ayre, Fm Acoustics, Rowland, etc, etc.Regards and enjoy the music.Raul. 
Ideal TT & Arm for the following top cartridges...
Dear Norm: +++++ " The above adventures have led me to the discovery of how sonically influencial are output coupling and other signal carrying capacitors. Boy was I floored when a capacitor change (at $18 to $35 each) impacted the sonic signature... 
Ideal TT & Arm for the following top cartridges...
Dear Ctm: I have experienced the Triplanar but never in my audio system .I have a very good idea about the VII due to my " in other systems " experience and to the opinion of one person that I respect a lot ( an Auiogoner ) who thinks that the MAX... 
Does size really matter? :-
Dear Armstrod: Of course that the stylus profile/size is important but almost all the top cartridges share almost the same size/profile stylus.Regards and enjoy the music.Raul. 
MC transformers - what do they sound like?
Dear friends: Shane is right: it is not a cheap unit.Our Phonopreamp are in " true " three preamps: one MC, one MM and one Line level stage, all independent. Now, the three are true balanced input to output, this means that in reality they are: 6 ... 
Ideal TT & Arm for the following top cartridges...
Dear Ctm: For the KRSP: Lustre GST 801 or Ikeda 407.Allaerts MC 2 Finish: Ikeda 407.Colibri: Sumiko MDC 800 or Brinkman.Myabi 47: SME IV ( rewired )XV-1: Lustre GST 801, SME IV and Ikeda 407.Those ones are my experiences about.For turntables I rec... 
Ideas for a cartridge for a Breuer 8A tonearm
Dear Drjoe: My Colibri put on any one on music heaven through my Sumiko MDC 800: a Breuer clone, a very good one.Regards and enjoy the music.Raul. 
MC transformers - what do they sound like?
Dear Gregad: Our Phonopreamp is in no way a Vendetta clone ( with all my respect to JC. ), is is a very different design.Stay tunned.Regards and enjoy the music.Raul. 
MC transformers - what do they sound like?
Dear friends: +++++ " I think Raul should build a prototype and send it to me for evaluation. " *****I'm thinking very serious about and I think that I will take the " Gregad word " for build a prototype of the Phonopreamp and share/send with some... 
Does size really matter? :-
Dear David: +++++ " attributable more to the different profiles of the styli rather than their absolute size? " +++++Absolutely. Btw, of course that the stylus size is important but it is only one of the characteristicis that any cartridge builder... 
MC transformers - what do they sound like?
Dear Onhwy61: +++++ " If growing up means becoming as dogmatic and narrow-minded as you are regarding this issue, then I don't want to grow up. " +++++I don't think I'm dogmatic and certainly not narrow-minded.In the last 10-12 years we try/test d...