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| PS Audio Direct Stream Pacific Northwest Audio Society meeting tonight.Ted Smith presents discrete DSD DAC to PNWASTed Smith is a longtime friend of PNWAS and was the lead designer of the new PS Audio DirectStream DAC.Over three years ago, Ted presented an early prototy... | |
| Dumb VTA Question Peter, that sounds about right with small changes in SRA. With a 1 degree change in SRA the difference will be large enough to worry about. | |
| Dumb VTA Question Dinster, another way to change SRA is by placing a shim between the cartridge and headshell. Placing the shim behind the cartridge screws will have the same effect as lowering the back of the arm. Of course if you have to lower the back of the car... | |
| Dumb VTA Question Dinster, Baerwald is the best compromise for the records I play. I like to stay as close to that as possible. YMMV.It is not an issue on my Schroder LT. With this linear tracker I can easily dial alignment in by ear. | |
| Dumb VTA Question Excellent post by Jcarr. As usual.:)"However, as I recently wrote in Stereophile, the construction of every tonearm that I am aware of (with the sole exception of the Eminent Technology linear trackers) guarantees that altering SRA will simultaneo... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Hi Bflodave, I've settled on 1.56 grams for my ANV. | |
| SDS or phono stage The Herron is one I would like to hear. From all reports it should be a big improvement on your in built MF phono stage. | |
| SDS or phono stage The phono stage in the MF A308 integrated I had long ago was not very good. Not sure how it compares with your newer MF though.It will depend on how much your budget is? If you could stretch for something like a Parasound JC3, it would be more of ... | |
| Wood armwand vs Metal armwand Ralph, that is true. It is kind of a stretch to compare tonearms to speakers. Just trying to point out the differences in the sound of materials. I should have been more specific about the speakers, even though it is a bit off topic. I meant the c... | |
| Wood armwand vs Metal armwand Dnath, I was just trying to get a feel for what arms you have listened to. The Phantom is a good arm, but not it's not everyone's favorite. Metal adds it's own coloration's as well. Nothing is perfect. You have to pick your poison.Kind of like all... | |
| Wood armwand vs Metal armwand Well, Ralph I've had one of my Reed's for over 2 years, and the other about a year now. No problems. | |
| Wood armwand vs Metal armwand Dnath, What wood tonearms have you heard? What are you impressed with? | |
| Wood armwand vs Metal armwand I also do not find the sound to vary from day to day, with my Reed tonearms. When rechecking my settings they are not different either. So at least IME stability is a non issue.I think too many people pass up wood tonearms because they fear these ... | |
| Wood armwand vs Metal armwand It all about the sound. I have not found the sound to vary noticeably between different samples of wood armed tonearms of the same model, material, and manufacture. At least of the three I have heard enough to make that statement. Which are the Re... | |
| Wood armwand vs Metal armwand Geoffkait, Sapphire would be interesting but extremely expensive. Not to mention heavy and very fragile. If you could make a tapered tube from sapphire that was not too heavy, It would probably cost $100k retail. That would be a very expensive exp... |