terry9
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| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? @mikelavigne Glad the DaVa is working out so well for you. I was wondering about one for myself - how would you characterize the sound? Lean? Analytical? Lush? Thanks! | |
| Mood lighting for listening Just a word. Some lights, especially LED's, cause radio frequency noise, which is not what your electronics need to sound their best. Quartz lights may be old and hot, but they don't radiate RF. | |
| Playing with Cartirdge loading on my phono stage In general, higher ohms mean leaner sound and better tracking. My phono does 10R to 47K, and I usually run the Koetsu at about 1k. But there are times when I prefer it at 30R, or even 47K. Depends on source, mood, and how long the electronics have... | |
| Basic question about power/watts @koestner No, I don't think so. It's more like damming a river and diverting what you need, and letting the rest flow away. | |
| Basic question about power/watts Consider a used Bryston. I had a Bryston 3BSST on Magnepan Tympani II and MG IIIAs, which both sounded wonderful. The SST even drove new Quads reasonably well. Haven't tried the previous ST series or the later SST squared, but the first series, 3B... | |
| For those of you who had spent over hundred thousand dollars for your sound system. Either your wife is with you or it comes out of your personal allowance. Fortunately for me, wife is with me all the way - e.g. a higher end Koetsu for a major birthday. | |
| For those of you who had spent over hundred thousand dollars for your sound system. I can’t afford to spend 150K on a turntable, etc. etc., so I build my own stuff. More fun, and mostly better quality. Regrets? Didn't start sooner. DIY forever!! | |
| How many plays can you get out of a good record? I have a record which has been played extensively - hundreds of times on a low fi system, and many hundreds on a high end setup. It has been ultrasonically cleaned. I also have a sealed copy of the same record, played only a few times. There is l... | |
| Using battery power to go off the City's power grid Why invert at all? Your audio system (except possibly the motors for turntable, tape, and player), runs on DC. You just need a DC-DC converter, which are almost noiseless. Better yet, you may find equipment that runs on your house DC. Of course,... | |
| Current Universal Players I use a Panasonic DP-UB9000 in the HT - excellent in all respects. Don't know about all the formats it does, though, so you might want to check that out. | |
| Seeking suggestions for 6922 tubes I collected a lot of 6922’s in the late ’90’s. The best were all specially selected by HP (Hewlett-Packard) for use in their test equipment, the stuff which put men on the moon. Tales from that era were of co-op students testing boxes of 144 facto... | |
| Softest, smoothest sounding capacitors you've tried? Didn’t know about OIMP. Thanks. | |
| Setup Speakers Along Long Wall? I'm running an ESL system, long wall, in a 7' x 10' x 24' room. Tried to make it work the other way, but speakers on the long wall just seem to sound better. Agreed that cartridge to phono stage is the important cable. Really, I can't tell the di... | |
| Ever Damage A Stylus Using Cleaning Brush? I use the cueing lever to lower the stylus into a circle of Magic Eraser glued to a NON-MAGNETIC coin. Follow up with stroking cantilever back to front with an artist’s brush, to remove any trace of ME fibre. It’s easy and foolproof. Even me-proof... | |
| Softest, smoothest sounding capacitors you've tried? @bigkidz I understand that V-caps are teflon film. Not oil. Also have to quibble with you comment about every cap. Air-gap and vacuum dielectric have one main characteristic: clear as crystal. Of course, they are only available in small capacitan... |