reimarc
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| Phono preamp or SUT for low output moving coil I went down both paths: I had Dave Slagle make me a copper EMIA SUT matched to the specs of my preamp, and I had a Sunvallley Audio SV-EQ1616D "phono equalizer" as they call it. I liked both. However, the phono stage allowed me to fine tune capaci... | |
| Supratek Owners Thread My remote from Mick never worked: I noticed that the IR photocell under the Grange is quite loose and flimsy. Mick's not very helpful here. Any idea how to fix this annoyance? | |
| Looking for my End Game Speaker You own it to yourself to audition the Linkwitz 521.4 system. In terms of 3-D staging and "being-there" (including powerful and tight bass), there is just nothing else out there. Your 12 feet room width is enough for correct placement of the speak... | |
| suggestions for new phono stage Congratulations for your ZYX purchase: I only heard great things about the brand. I have tried several phono-stages in my system. I was very happy with the EMIA step-up transformer in combination with the Sunvalley Audio SV-EQ1616D phono stage (w... | |
| Looking for a narrow baffle small footprint speaker Check out the Linkwitz website: https://linkwitz.store/category/lxspeakers/ I have both, the LX521.4 and the Sirius. They are mindbogglingly good! The 521.4 just won the 2025 Editor's Choice award from TAS. The smaller Sirius should fit your desc... | |
| Time for a new cartridge Dear @rauliruegas , Thanks for your detailed, albeit somewhat technical, comment. Yes, I saw the frequency response of the MEMS cartridge on the website, and also as an attachment of a personal eMail from Sawada-san. That mail came as response t... | |
| Time for a new cartridge Dear @mswale, I don’t know what the cartridge system (i.e. cartridge plus power source for the condenser mikes), goes for in the US. You might want to contact the importer. While in Japan, Sawada-san sold me his personal unit from his turntable f... | |
| Time for a new cartridge I might be too late to this discussion. If not, however, I would like to draw your attention to the Miyaji MEMS cartridge by the Japanese designer H. Sawada (his company is called ARSound) of Hamamatsu. During my last trip to Japan in April, Mr. S... | |
| Straight tonearms without offset angle I am the happy owner of the 7" Rigid Float CB (carbon fiber) arm. I met Akimoto-san in March near his home in Kamakura. He is a wonderful human being; communication worked well and he explained to me the important parts of his design, most importa... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm To rauliruegas Thanks for your comments. My question to every reviewer (including Harry Pearson at the 2008 RMAF): how do you actually know what exactly is encoded in the LP grove? Unless you have the master tape side by side. And no, I don't wan... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm I met with Mr. Koichiro Akimoto and his family near Kamakura during my trip to Japan in March. We discussed the Rigid Float arm at length. He has a Masters degree of engineering of the University of Tokyo, Japan's most prestigious school. He expla... | |
| dac recommendations for turntable listener? I know, this might not be your price range (and neither is it mine if I'd to pay list), but I just got a MSB "Discrete", the junior model in the MSB stable, and playing DSD256 it is almost indistinguishable from my analog versions of the same trac... | |
| Recommend an MC cartridge For the past 5 years I lived with both, a Benz Micro LP-S ebony and an Audio technical ART-1000. I sold the benz last year, because the ART-1000 just gives more "life" to "live" recordings: deeper sound stage, sharper attacks, better focus around ... | |
| The molecular level explanation of "cable burn-in" I tend to agree with this statement. We measure what we CAN measure, and the measurements prove or disprove corresponding preconceived explanations of natural phenomena. So far so good. But there is a certain circularity at work: these measurement... | |
| The molecular level explanation of "cable burn-in" I was as much a skeptic as many of you with a science background. Then came the 2010 RMAF, where Nordost demonstrated their various speaker cables, beginning with a regular copper litz from Home Depot, and working all the way up to their top-of-th... |