terry9
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| Do You Play Or Save Your Best Cartridges @grislybutter You may surprise yourself. You don't need to do everything yourself - I sure don't. I buy off-the-shelf whenever I can. Prefer to just design and assemble, but sometimes a craftsman can't think of how to do it, or is too expensive.... | |
| Do You Play Or Save Your Best Cartridges Uh - because it's Romanee - Conti? | |
| Do You Play Or Save Your Best Cartridges @grislybutter "I guess the rest of the setup would be just as expensive" Unless you DIY. I like to budget for something pretty good, like a 10-20k turntable or a 5k tonearm, and see what I can do with that money. That’s led me to an air bearing T... | |
| Do You Play Or Save Your Best Cartridges @grislybutter "what does a 10,000 dollar cartridge do better than a $1,000 one?" Absolutely nothing unless you have a comparable turntable and a comparable tonearm. If you do have these, you get smoother, clearer, more defined, more delicate, mo... | |
| New Synergistic Master Fuse I suspect that all similarly rated fuses sound the same, but when you replace them, the contacts are remade and that's why they sound better. But - and it's a big but - a lower impedance fuse will sound better than a higher impedance fuse, and im... | |
| Do You Play Or Save Your Best Cartridges Yes, but our own auditory equipment is deteriorating daily. I'm with @mulveling on this - use your best until you discover something better. | |
| Do I buy an upscale TT? IMO, the turntable is the most important part of the vinyl system. You already have a fine tonearm and cartridge - let them sing! Be sure to audition an air bearing TT, air thrust and air sleeve. Air for both, if you can find one. Once you have h... | |
| Made in USA My Chinese Quads have better QC than my UK Quads (which I sold). Parts are beginning to fail after 15 years, especially panels exposed to sunlight, but even that, apparently, has been fixed. Political, ethical, economic matters are another discus... | |
| Made in USA @fpomposo This is an audio forum. Please stick to audio topics and leave your politics at home. | |
| Made in USA Just took delivery of a Grado Lineage series cartridge. From initial inspection, fit and finish appear to be superior to Koetsu. So obviously it can be done, if the will is there. | |
| Made in USA My Chinese made Quads are better than the old UK built Quads. But Grado makes some good stuff, can't deny that. | |
| Getting back in the game Don't spend on cables. Microphone cable like Canare Starquad is good at about $1 a foot or so. Switchcraft RCA's are available for not much. That gets you close to the big money stuff, so you can spend where it really counts. Good luck! | |
| Interconnect advice needed I agree about the importance of dielectric. Of course air is best, but teflon and cross-linked polyester are a good second. The issue with teflon is soldering - if you make up your own, do so outside and at eye level - burning teflon releases HF, ... | |
| Took the lithium ion battery plunge I agree, @carlsbad . B+ is a real problem for batteries - it’s often 300VDC or more. That governed my choice of technologies: I use aerospace solid state running at +/- 6VDC for phono-pre. One solution is NiCad batteries, which are about 1.3VDC /... | |
| Took the lithium ion battery plunge Not everyone uses inverters, @carlsbad , @sns . I choose @rbertalotto 's solution for phono / pre. No inverter, no bridge rectifier, no filter caps, no filter chokes. It's bad enough for amps, where LC-LC-LC-C is good enough for me - that's a Fara... |