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| The Great Cartridge Shootout @daveyf1 - Yes, if you go here, https://www.musicdirect.com/phono-cartridges/Grado-Statement-Sonata-3-MI-Phono-Cartridge, and look at the Grado Sonata cartridge body, you can see the back side of the body is cut square at the bottom behind the st... | |
| The Great Cartridge Shootout I have thought about a record flattening device. However, I don't have enough albums with warps to justify $1000+. Besides the VM160 and the Ortofon 2M Blue tracks the few that have a warp without a hitch. If I could rent one, that would be a ... | |
| How to choose step up transformers? I agree with the Audio Technica VM760 - that is one fantastic cartridge! | |
| Best Interconnect with Step Up Transformer Echo again, Blue Jean cables. They work amazingly well. | |
| Questions that Never Die Now this is one awesome post! :-) Thanks for the chuckles! | |
| Review of a tweaked Pangea Premier SE Octet Power Distribution Strip[ Nice. BTW, you know your old when you blow a tweeter fuse and just don't get around to replace it.....:-) | |
| Searching for "The Diamond Revolution" test CD by Usher Audio Here are a couple of sites, although I have never used them and I cannot vouch for their integrity:https://lossless-flac.com/165-va-usher-audio-the-diamond-revolution-2009.htmlThis is the US importer for Usher Audio: https://www.katli.com/Hope th... | |
| Suggest an entry - midrange Preamp (tube as well as SS) for a McIntosh power amp PS: Finding one might be an issue, though. | |
| Suggest an entry - midrange Preamp (tube as well as SS) for a McIntosh power amp Actually, a Dynaco PAS preamp, original equipment or with mods. They are cheap and amazingly good. I mean, really amazingly good! Odds are if you get a deal, you can sell it for what you paid for it, if you take care of it and don't mess it up. | |
| furutech fp-s022n or furutech fp-s032n for solid state preamp No, no downside but I don't see an upside either. It is a preamp, a high quality 14g cable is definitely overkill. | |
| Best ultrasonic lp cleaner in 2020 and what surfactant best? I have no experience with ultrasonic cleaners but it does make sense that a good surfactant is important though! Interesting question, I'd like to see the comments! | |
| Used McIntosh Amp or better new options out there? - Amplifier or Integrated If your amp is repaired properly, then an amp that was opened and repaired has better resale than an unopened amp with a bum meter!BTW, You could specify a factory authorized repair shop for the repair. | |
| Terminal Blocks for Speaker Wire "Splitting"? Well, capacitance is a proportional to the area of the plates, in your case the bolt and washers, times a capacitance factor, which in your case is air, and inversely proportional to the distance between the plates. So, if you want low capacitanc... | |
| Power Conditioning / Surge Protection Yeah, I still believe his is marketing wording talking here. Given how an inductor works, putting it in parallel with the line is counterproductive. The word "Parallel" here means connected from Line to Neutral or from input to output with the ... | |
| The secret to a great amplifier... So were these Orange fuses inserted in the power amplifier outputs to the loudspeaker or in the AC Mains line to the unit? Either I missed it or that installation point was never made. |