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| New cartridge ideas... So the question I always ask when a customer presents me with a "cartridge sales opportunity" is how comfortable are you with having optimized your setup? I don't mean merely setting geometry, nominal tracking force, VTA, etc, but tuning, tuning ... | |
| Feel Silly Asking This Question Alignment Parameters When I recommend a procedure or tool to a customer, I try to get a read on their aptitude and willingness to learn. Needless to say, mechanical and cognitive skills span quite a broad range and with them, so do my recommendations. If someone is w... | |
| Feel Silly Asking This Question Alignment Parameters There’s a bit too much to address individually on this topic. The last thread that was loosely related to this this subject hit a few days after I put this blog post out. TL;DR #1: There numerous excellent geometries to choose from. Dispense with... | |
| Tone arm length Hi @rauliruegas, Long time ;-) This exercise got me started as I’ve been handling quite a few vintage Japanese tonearms recently, and I’ve been wondering why they specify the same overhang for various effective lengths (15mm for both the 245mm F... | |
| Tone arm length There's much wisdom (and a bit of controversy) in this thread. Suffice to say that I fall in the camp that there are many reasons to advocate long arms, but significantly improved tracing distortion is not one of them. I recently fired up John ... | |
| 40 years of fitting cartridges to a variety of arms, I'm feeling stumped Hi @regamortis We might be able to help you if you better defined the problem. Are you unable to establish basic geometry? Assuming you can do so, what is leading you to believe you have a problem? "It sounds bad" isn't an answer we can do an... | |
| Bananas rule, spades drool. End of discussion. TL;DR, but this (loosening spades) speaks to a much larger problem - the audiophile's fascination with garden hoses for speaker cables. ... Thom @ Galibier | |
| 300b lovers @gladmo The takeaway from your observations (quoted below) is that no system is universal, and we all latch on to different elements of the sonic illusion. Well done! ... Thom My personal award show notes from PAF, including the room with th... | |
| 300b lovers @donsachs I know that when I have my system "cranked" and I measure the level it is about 81-83 dB. I rarely listen at that level. As was stated above, the hallmark of a good system is that it has enough resolution and balance that i... | |
| 300b lovers Hi @charles1dad I couldn’t agree with your comments (below) more. In theory, reproducing music at concert levels sounds like a good idea. In practice however, I think that for anything other than a string quartet or solo guitarist, live concert... | |
| 300b lovers The speakers appear to be 8 ohm 90 dB from a stereophile review. They dip to 3.2 ohms, which isn’t bad. The amps would drive them with no trouble in any reasonable sized room. I cannot comment on pricing until Spatial Audio figures out all of the... | |
| 300b lovers Weirdly enough, both Thom Mackris and Don Sachs came up with the 6V6 driver within hours of each other. Thom was hacking around with his SET 300B amp and swapped in the 6V6 driver and was jumping up and down about it, and Don calls the same day.... | |
| Kuzma Stabi R mat? Hi All, For reasons that escape me, I haven’t picked up Kuzma’s reflex clamp, but one is arriving shortly. I think it has something to do with being in "recovery" mode from handling our 6+ pound Anvil weight over a decade ago. Scroll to the bott... | |
| Best audiophile earwax removal system? Timely post. I just performed an "upgrade" to the Debrox system (which was recommended by my doctor). I picked up a better irrigation system - Nuance Medical EarClear Rx. There are quite a few offerings like this. And the pressure generated m... | |
| Lyra Delos or Hana ML @thom_at_galibier_design Great article! I have been saying for years precisely what you pointed out about incorrect or sloppy set up with Lyra cartridges, mostly to deaf ears! Get it right and you are rewarded with excellent top end extension, ... |