terry9
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| Will fine tune adjustments with protractor help with "brightness?" Set-up will affect the sound. Period. I suggest that you buy the right equipment right away, and no more guessing. But note that the best installation won't do much for a damaged or malfunctioning tonearm.Alignment will affect the sound, and is th... | |
| Used Bryston 3B-ST or Schiit Vidar? Bryston is bulletproof. This does not matter until the unexpected happens. But at that point ... | |
| First Foray into XLR Listen to Al.I say Mogami 2534 or Canare 4E6S with ETI connectors. Both are star quad configurations, which suppresses RF. I have come to prefer Mogami because the shield is easier to unravel and terminate, and also because Canare uses teflon diel... | |
| Don't waste money on ultrasonic RCMs Ri-i-ight. And then you can spend all the money you saved on cryo-ed cable crayons. | |
| Finally took the Bryston 4B Cubed plunge Glad to hear that your Bryston experience is as positive as mine was. Did I mention that they are bullet-proof? While shifting the 4B ST, I accidentally touched the output posts to a slab of aluminum chassis - basically, using it as an arc welder.... | |
| Tonearm Suggestions For Technics Sp15 Under 5k In what way? Had less refinement than I was used to. A bit grainy, noisy. Just a decent sound, not a particularly good one. | |
| Tried tubes and LOVED it, now what? Second the idea of upgrading parts. MIT Multicap RTX are made of tin and styrene, a very neutral combination. Solen makes a good tin and teflon cap, if you are after a bit of brightness. So does Relcap. Nude Vishay resistors are also worth their w... | |
| Phono stage and cartridge Set-up also includes torque on the mounting screws. I neglected this, and finally sprung for a torque screwdriver when I found that a Linn engineer had posted on this subject. It was discussed on a recent AGon thread - search for 'lube the nuts', ... | |
| Memorial Day Thank you, @schubert . | |
| Cartridge Loading- Low output M/C Your cautions are accepted. I've been thinking mil spec circular connectors and cables encased in grounded shields, or mono blocks bolted to the back of the speaker bases.Interesting parallelism. I went from Magnepan to ESL-57's to Prodigies to 29... | |
| Cartridge Loading- Low output M/C Wyn, I'm not claiming anything original here, except perhaps my anal-retentive dedication to costly devices!Speaking of which - direct drive ESL. I have new generation Quads, which I opened up as soon as the warranty expired. I found a step-up tra... | |
| Cartridge Loading- Low output M/C Wyn, your coaching is much appreciated. However, I am running discrete differential amplifiers (MATxy devices) throughout, and there is no "bias/protection resistor in series with a high impedance node in the signal path". Also, I am using air or ... | |
| Romex power cable as speaker cables? The copper part is fine but the dielectric is a bit of a problem because of dielectric absorption, which is increasingly problematic with frequency. You really want something like teflon or at least a good polyester.I run ESL's which require a ser... | |
| Cartridge Loading- Low output M/C Thank you, Wyn. Food for thought - or rather, food for experiment. Another pole means another stage and another pair of complementary devices, so the trade-off is obvious. But next is the amplifiers' turn, so it will have to wait!Thanks again for ... | |
| Cartridge Loading- Low output M/C @almarg ... in a hobby where a lot of audiophiles concern themselves with dubious and unexplainable minutiae such as which way a fuse is oriented an explainable and potentially significant phenomenon such as this seems to me to be a reasonable thi... |