stefanl
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| Ground Hum with Rega RP6, Exact and TT PSU. Have you made sure of all connections especially the ground wire from turntable to preamp...I know its a dumb reply but the sort of issue your having could mean you have a broken ground wire or related problem. | |
| Looking at upgrading to a new MC cartridge any thoughts? The Art 9 could be a too high compliant cartridge for a mid-mass Rega arm.Less than 8Hz resonance whereas the preferred Dynavector looks a good match at almost 11Hz tonearm/cartridge resonance. | |
| What is more accurate: magnetic anti-skating, or barrel weight attached a fishline? That in practice is not actually the case.I found as most of us have that the last track of a side is the problematic area.Look at Stevenson's alignment method for how far you can take that.Usually a slight increase in anti skate here will deal wi... | |
| What is more accurate: magnetic anti-skating, or barrel weight attached a fishline? There is an old trick to correctly set anti-skate.Because two (i.e L+R channel) signals out phase with each other will cause a -3db drop in volume when they meet.This is audible.You also need a mono switch on your preamp and your cartridge well al... | |
| Rega white belts Glp66 can you tell me how you upgraded the feet of your Rega with the Vibrapod cones and feet in detail? Is it just sitting on them or do you have some other arrangement? I found an improvement with white belts also.Better speed stability and thus... | |
| Trouble with rega white belt seating properly The suspension of the belts holding the old style motor eventually wears out.I obtained replacements for these on English ebay,search Rega.This is a bit fiddly!You have to remove the motor cover under the plinth.Your belts could be o.k.just make s... | |
| Trouble with rega white belt seating properly If you have the old motor suspended by rubber belts the screws at the plinth if loosened enough with right sized allan key(3 turns approx.) will allow you to reseat the motor.If of course the rubber suspension belts are not worn (replaced these on... | |
| Trouble with rega white belt seating properly It probably has to do with your motor being seated properly.You have to take off the belt loosen the screws on the plinth that are either side of the pulley.Then pull the motor down so the top of the pulley is centered and lower than the sub-platt... | |
| Tonearm Choice:SME or Rega? The Rega RB300 is actually supported by bearings on both sides.That being said there is spring in the weight adjustment side that does vibrate.However,I remember Jean Nantais of Lenco idler fame giving the Rega RB300 the thumbs up as the real deal... | |
| Tonearm Choice:SME or Rega? This is a note that when you do calculations for the resonant frequency match for the Denon 103 use the value of 12(13) cus compliance for the Denon 103 and not 5 cus.That 5 cus figure is based on a different table than the one most manufacturers ... | |
| CD's vs Vinyl - Finally hear the difference I have another take although some will be familiar with this.I cannot listen to stock store bought cd's ANYMORE!I firstly rip any cd I am going to play with EAC and play the CD-R.I will not even listen to the original cd.To me it is so obvious tha... | |
| What defines a high compliance cartridge vs low Looking at the specs for the Redgum phono stage,I personally think that the R.I.A.A curve is not really flat(+/- 0.5) and going down to 10Hz might be too sensitive at the lower end of the scale for M.M.Do they the roll-off at 35Khz? The competing ... | |
| I am at the end of my rope, please help Would demagnetising the cartridge help? There is a way to do this manually using the RCA's of the tonearm across each other (30 secs.),first one way then the other,the centre pin of one crossing the pin and shield of the other.Also it is not uncom... | |
| I am at the end of my rope, please help Try reversing the polarity of one side of the cartridge i.e the right-hand side,at the cartridge.Then reverse the polarity at the right-hand speaker to return to correct polarity for playback and then take your measurements again.This is an old tw... | |
| How can I improve my electric power situation. One thing I have been doing,which I just read about here I think,is to clean my power sockets at the wall with Caig's Deoxit.I took the plug sockets out and cleaned the connections,the wire ends as well.They were oxidised and I heard a noticeable ... |