rauliruegas
Responses from rauliruegas
| What LPs do you use for VTA adjustment Dear friend: The best way to set up the VTA is: trust in your ears and experience in live music, take 3-4 records that you know very well and set the VTA where you have the better FOCUS ( I agree in all what already told you Dogdeacon ). Best rega... | |
| ikeda mc-transformer This is for John Tracy: I´m living in this planet. Maybe you don´t know wich is the difference between an outboard stepup transformer and a built-in phono stage. First, you can use the outboard stepup transformer only if your preamp has a builtin... | |
| OK...I'm getting ready to buy a new Phono pre amp. Dear friend: Great audio system. If you want to improve your quality analog audio reproduction I recomended that you have to change your pream/phono stage ( first ). The best is to buy a preamp with a built in phono stage ( no step up transformer ... | |
| Tonearm cable recommendations Dear friend: Silver oval by Analysis Plus. The best.Regards.raul. | |
| Top phono cartrige to match jfrech's system ... Dear friend: All these 3 phono cartridges are great ones ( I own all these ). You can choose any one. I think that you have to change your preamp ( it has not enough gain ). The best you can do for your music reproduction is to buy a preamp with a... | |
| Graham and Shelter matching - and other arms/carts Dear friend: I use the Shelter with: SME IV, Micro Seiki MAX 282 and Dynavector DV 505. Great with all these tonearms.Raul. | |
| Have anyone pics and tech-data for a SU-1 step-up? Daer friend: I own severals cartridges and tonearms. I'm a music-analog/lover and I can tell you ( with confidence on my 40 plus years on music and with confidence on my ears ) that " THE BEST STEP UP TRANSFORMER IS NO STEP UP TRANSFORMER " in the... | |
| ikeda mc-transformer Dear Eduard: I own Ikeda cartridge, not stepup transformer.But I can tell you that " the best stepup transformer is NO stepup transformer ". Change your preamp for a high gain preamp ( with built phono stage ) or change your phonocartridge. If you... | |
| Cartridge Recommendation Dear friend: Shelter 901.Enjoy.Raul. | |
| loading impedance Dear friend: The ideal is that with the correct load impedance the frecuency response of the cartridge will be flat, but you need some tools and instrument to do that. So, if you are experienced in live music then you have to trust in you ears: ta... | |
| What makes a good tonearm? Dear friend: You can't say " I want to buy a tonearm ". When you want to buy a tonearm, you always have to think about it " wife's ": the phono cartridge. You can't separate, tonearm/cartridge is a "combo buy ". Go with you audio dealer and talk a... | |
| Shelter 90x vs 901 / Graham arm Dear friend: I own both cartridges. The 901 is a HiFi cartridge and the 90X is more, more sofisticaded is the " aristocrat Shelter cartridge ". Is the same manufacture but both are different cartidges. At least to my ears.Regards.Raul. | |
| Strange Tonearm Tweak. Long Dear friend: I have around 18 tonearms. You have a point that maybe it's valid, but when a tonearm manufacturer has a good design and a good execution ( it does not matter wich kind of tonearm bearing design ) you don't have to worried about it. I... | |
| Denon, Shelter arm choices Dear friend: I own the Shelter 901 and the 90X, both are great on the SME IV. I own, too, the KOETSU RSP and this one is an exelent match to an Audiocraft AC 4400.Regards.Raul. | |
| cartridge allignment/test record Dear friend: I own several cartridges and tonearms, too. I own your cartridge and your tonearm ( by the way: great TT ), both exelent performers. First: I take the Radio Shack record an go to a friend's house ( that have a decent audio system ) an... |