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Tonearm for Teres turntable - approx $1000 - ??
Holly: Yes, it is. Tks for the link. Nice idea.Regards and enjoy the music.Raul. 
Tonearm for Teres turntable - approx $1000 - ??
Doug: There is no problem, it is very easy and really function. You only do this once and forget for ever.I understand your point: " I'm not that good with a soldering iron. ". Don't do it in this way.Regards and enjoy the music.raul. 
No. 26 - MM or MC board?
Dear Tom: I think that what you get on P. Vallarta was a kind of Tequila. The city of Oaxaca ( México ) is the house of Mezcal, and like you say: truly spectacular, too.regards and enjoy the music.Raul. 
Tonearm for Teres turntable - approx $1000 - ??
Dear Dave: Yes, I forgot: I use a 2K, 1/2 watt resistor on each channel ( very easy to solder directly to the headshell pins ).Regards and enjoy the music.Raul. 
sporadic distortion in low end?
Pablo: You have to ask to Music Hall.Regards and enjoy the music.Raul. 
Graham 2.2 tonearm cables
Hi Speedy:: The subject on phono cable ( like many other issues. ) is a hard choice. There are no rules. Here the only rule is “ our ears and sound bias “.When we are talking about those kind of cables like: Cardas, XLO, Vetustas, Nordost, Audioqu... 
sporadic distortion in low end?
Pablo: f= 1/2Pi x the square root of 1/mc. Where m is the effective mass of the tonearm + the cartridge weight, c is the compliance of the cartridge and 2Pi is = to 6.2832.That's all you need.Regards and enjoy the music.Raul. 
Phono Cable recommendations
Dear Art: You have to try the Silver Oval from Analysis Plus, hands down the Golden Ref. At least on my ears.Regards and enjoy the music.Raul. 
Graham Phantom vs the Graham 2.2
Dear friends: This is another example of the " black magic " between the tonearm/cartridge combo:in the past, I buy two tonearms MDC-800 from Sumiko ( The Arm ) that I never mounted. A few months ago I put on sale one of them ( I think for 800.00 ... 
Graham Phantom vs the Graham 2.2
Doug: **** " From a practical standpoint, anyone considering a Mk VII really doesn't care about any possible weaknesses of the Mk II or Mk IV. All that matters is what arm s/he's going to get today. " ****I totally agree with you.Regards and enjoy... 
Graham 2.2 tonearm cables
Dear 4yanx: I tested severals phono cables in my system: Cardas Golden reference, Norsdot Valhalla, Kimber KCAG, Analysis Plus Silver Oval, XLO Gold Eclipse III, HarmoniTech, Audioquest Amazon, and a lot more.I stay with the Silver Oval from Analy... 
Graham Phantom vs the Graham 2.2
Hi Sirspeedy: ***** "even though I probably never will own one. " ******If you don't buy the Phantom, maybe you can get the Airtangent. Good luck on it.BTW, I agree with you about **** " don't think it has to be all that technical .." *****. With ... 
No. 26 - MM or MC board?
Fernando: Don't do more mistakes. Stay away from step up transforme, this stage is a heavy degradation for the fragil signal that comes from the cartridge. It does not matters if is a " dedicated " one.Think on this: when you use a step up transfo... 
sporadic distortion in low end?
Dear Pablo. It looks to me like a classic problem between your tonearm/cartridge resonance frecuency. Your cartridge don't mates with your tonearm and the only solution is to change that cartridge or to change that tonearm.In theory, the resonance... 
Phono Cable recommendations
Hi: The phono cable has a very high importance on the analog sound reproduction. My advise is that try to buy the right phono cable that maybe will be at a higher price from your budget.BTW, the Silver Oval ( phono cable ) from Analysis Plus is a ...