restock
Responses from restock
| Best Phono Stage within 2000 $ I heard the Rhea in a shootout with several other phonostage and neither of us was impressed - we pretty much unanimously felt it was very disappointing. It was slightly noisy too.Some short comments:- Sutherland Ph.D. (nice balance, good flow, qu... | |
| Cartridge for Scheu Classic 10" Tonearm Thomas Scheu used to suggest the Denon DL103. The 103R would be an ideal match. | |
| Happy Chanukah and Merry Christmas And a late happy diwali! | |
| What is it the wears out on a cartridge? One thing I would like to know. Do some suspensions on some brands last more than others??? Jan Allaerts uses 120 old rubber for the suspension on his cartridges to avoid aging of the suspension. | |
| Transformer-coupled tube phono pres I think the K&K/Art Audio Vinyl Reference may have a transformer-coupled output. | |
| Best Phono Stage within 2000 $ With an X-1 pre I would not even think long about the right phono stage: Pass XOno. A friend is running one with his INT150 and it's a perfect combination. He runs a Dynavector XX-2 cartridge into the Pass which works well too. | |
| Budget Low-Capacitance Interconnects I third the Blue Jeans LC1 (C=12.2 pF/ft).I didn't realize the capacitance of the Blue Heaven was this low (C=8.1 pF/ft). | |
| Best Phono Stage within 2000 $ I heard good things about the Whest PS30R but no chance to listen to one yet. There have been excellent reviews on some German forums comparing it closely to a Pass Xono which seems to fall in a similar direction sonically.For the US$ used price t... | |
| Best Phono Stage within 2000 $ While there is not necessarily a "best", I would consider the following:- Vacuumstate JLTI- Pass XOnoI preferred both to the Sutherland Ph.D., EAR 834R and some much more expensive stages. Some others that look interesting:- ARC PH3 SE- K&K Ma... | |
| EAR 834P and gain A reduction of voltage gain by 30% amounts only to a 3dB reduction in gain. You would end up with a gain of around 65dB. | |
| Jelco Tonearn SA750D Jelco does manufacture the Vivid arms as well as Sumiko, Graham Robin, and some others. | |
| My LP couldn't beat my CD, until now After 15 years in analog, I had a similar 'wow' experience when I inserted Vacuumstate JLTI phono stage into my system (after a Trichord Dino, Wright WPP200C). The second 'wow' followed quickly when I got my first >$1k cartridge. I did not thin... | |
| Cain and Cain dealers in western canada? You could just cross the border and visit Jason in Walla Walla who is running Terry Cain's shop now. A few hours and nice trip across the mountains. Or maybe Jason can refer you to someone who owns a pair of Cain & Cain's.If you make it to Eas... | |
| Is there a process to match a Cartridge to a Phono The other way round ;)You have to match capacitance for MM and resistance for MC for fine tuning. Lots of info on cartridge loading in the Asylum and on Audiogon. | |
| CDP's being dumped for hard drive driven units? You get full benefit of the license and so does someone else, but the artist gets paid only once.What if I have a vinyl copy as well as the CD? Do I get some license contributions back as I paid twice for the license? :)I agree otherwise, it is mo... |