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| Questionable service at Soundsmith Dear Mr. Viloria; I have researched your repair - RA15628. This Benz was received on 7/6/15, not "One Year Ago" as stated. I also see that you Pre-selected a repair level of $450, so that should NOT be a surprise. I looked up the particulars in th... | |
| Sumiko Blackbird Soundsmith Rebuild Level? We can install Boron with ultra-low mass nude Contact Line. That should provide near undiscernable performance from the original, except with better inner groove performance. Althought it is not on our website, we do stock a large numebr of varied... | |
| Need help with hum & rfi with an lfd LE phono stag Dear Barry; Glad to try and help - Please call and ask for me personally - Peter Ledermann/Soundsmith 914 739 2885 | |
| SoundSmith Sassuro Paula and Manley Steelhead For the Soundsmith Hyperion, Paua or Sussurro:More information: You can go into the MM input, set the gain at 60 or 65 and the loading at 47K, and use a dual "Y" RCA adapter at each phono input jack. By soldering a 1K (or whatever you choose) resi... | |
| SoundSmith Sassuro Paula and Manley Steelhead No - none whatever. The 470 Ohm models of Paua, Sussurro, and Hyperions will have a bandwidth of 28KHz at 400 Ohms, so more than enough to cover normal bandwidth AND using even more loading (if desired) to tune the top end down if needed for your ... | |
| SoundSmith Sassuro Paula and Manley Steelhead The New Hyperion, Paua, and Sussurro can all be ordered at 470 Ohms loading option. This will soon become the new "standard" order for all these models - That will largely broaden the preamp capability. Peter Ledermann/Soundsmith | |
| Rebuilt Ortofon A90? Just for knowledge's sake; I stock the original stylus used with the A90 - when I retip them "only" - you are back at the original starting point. No sonic changes. Peter Ledermann/Soundsmith | |
| Review: Soundsmith SG-200 Cartridge Thank you for the wonderful review of your Soundsmith Strain Gauge SG-200 system; It provides me great satisfaction to know that each one I hand make is appreciated. I do agree with you that a line contact stylus, and especially our SG-6 Optimized... | |
| Soundsmith's turnaround time? It is now Monday morning,and I have looked into Mr. Moffitt's cartridge issues. It was delayed due to:1) The manner in which he sent it from England caused us to pay import duties for these two high end cartridges. They were held by UPS while we f... | |
| Soundsmith's turnaround time? I received a phone call about this thread. I will respond to the many issues raised here, and post it here soon. I want to gather my thoughts first, and respond in a thoughtful considered manner. Maybe to address the main thread here, I need to do... | |
| Soundsmith SMMC1 or Clearaudio Maestro on Rega P25 The SMMC1/Aida will not hum in an AC environmnet; we specially anneal the FULLL SHIELDING so that it has the best 60Hz. hum rejection possible with for a phono cartridge. Peter Ledermann/Soundsmith | |
| Soundsmith The Voice Thank you Jay for the comments - I must correct your typo - The Voice is a MOVING IRON, compatible with MM INPUTs.... the proper load is 47K. In all magnetic cartridges, the coil genereated current is converted to a voltage by its own internal res... | |
| Strain Gauge Preamp/ Phono. A new standard? Again, thank you for your comments, as it allows me to try to illuminate issues about the Strain Gauge cartridge that have been long misunderstood..... My comments again, are not to present a position that an EQ absolutely cannot be used; I am how... | |
| Strain Gauge Preamp/ Phono. A new standard? Thank you for your comments: they are greatly appreciated. The subject of human response to amplitude and phase is an interesting one; the standpoint often determines the course of design choices for those of us in the audio design and manufactur... | |
| Strain Gauge Preamp/ Phono. A new standard? I very much appreciate Audiogon's great coverage of the Soundsmith Strain Gauge Phono system, and for having the courtesy of posting this hopefully helpful and informative response:The Strain Gauge is a DISPLACEMNET device, not a velocity sensitiv... |