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| How Do Left & Right Brains Like AT ART9 vs Dynavectors 17D3, XX2, XX2mkII vs Ortofons Warning! Dynavector dealer disclaimer ...I've ignored a 17D3 I had in my stable for a while. On Saturday, I pulled it out for a demo on an Artisan tonearm (a Jelco with a Discovery Cable Plus-4 interconnect). The arm's effective mass is in the ... | |
| Is it a OK to leave tube pre-amps powede up 24/7 What Ralph (atmasphere) said ...Cheers,Thom @ Galibier Design | |
| Is it a OK to leave tube pre-amps powede up 24/7 In my experience, and apart from components that use Black Gate power supply capacitors, well designed tube gear will be "on song" anywhere from 1/2 an hour to one hour after powering on. In contrast (in the dark days when I ran solid state amplif... | |
| Daedalus Athena I’m a horn guy, but needed a box speaker for demoing my Galibier products. Most folks get disoriented when presented with a horn system and I needed to address this. After hearing my customer’s (jazzdoc) Ulysses, I began to explore them further. T... | |
| Time to choose: Baerwald, Lofgren, Stevenson ? Hi Raul,I agree with you that a tonearm manufacturer should provide an alignment tool with their product. It’s in their best interest that the customer have the best chance of achieving a good setup.Lew - An arc protractor can get you to within .0... | |
| Time to choose: Baerwald, Lofgren, Stevenson ? What is truly amazing with Victor X1 is my new 100k ohm resistors that completely change the sound of this cartridge. Hard to believe i’m listening to the same phono stage and the same cart i used before at 47k ohms. Hi Chakster, Subtle difference... | |
| Time to choose: Baerwald, Lofgren, Stevenson ? Hi Chakster,I'm with Raul - that if this concerns you, that you should experiment. Even Lew stated that he felt uncomfortable about generalizing his resonance experiment across other tonearms.Cheers,Thom @ Galibier Design | |
| Time to choose: Baerwald, Lofgren, Stevenson ? Something just occurred to me: Is the offset angle required for Stevenson much more acute than that which is required for Lofgren and Baerwald? I think it’s the opposite, because of the aforementioned need to twist the cartridge inward on a Steven... | |
| Need advice on what to look for in a turntable - budget $6K to $10K Thanks for the kind words, Raul.Mike ... can you send me an e-mail through my contact page (http://galibierdesign.com/contact/)? I didn't get your e-mail address when we spoke, and I have a couple of questions I'd like to run down with you in ord... | |
| Time to choose: Baerwald, Lofgren, Stevenson ? Hi Lew,I get that Stevenson has a significantly higher offset angle difference from (for example) Baerwaald than Baerwald does to Loefgren. Re-reading my earlier post, I didn't make that clear.I'll file this away for future experimentation, but k... | |
| Time to choose: Baerwald, Lofgren, Stevenson ? If the cartridge is aligned as designed by manufacturer, then the cartridge is straight in the headshell. Now move it another tonearm and align it according to that tonearm’s design: it will again be straight in the headshell. To the extent th... | |
| Time to choose: Baerwald, Lofgren, Stevenson ? I'm generally in the same camp as Lewm on this one: I align the cartridges based on the alignment the tonearm was designed for. Since most of my tonearms use removable head shells and were designed for a 52mm distance from the head shell conne... | |
| Time to choose: Baerwald, Lofgren, Stevenson ? That's a good point about 7" records. They're a bit off my radar.Funny thing is, that I've not seen anyone develop math around smaller formats. Stevenson would likely be the closest to an ideal alignment.Frankly, I don't find distortion increasi... | |
| Time to choose: Baerwald, Lofgren, Stevenson ? Hi Lew,I was basing my comments on the fact cartridges are not perfectly manufactured, and the more expensive ones are by no means immune to this. They very frequently have cantilevers that are misaligned to some degree (not perpendicular to the t... | |
| Time to choose: Baerwald, Lofgren, Stevenson ? Hi all,As far as using the designer’s intended alignment, this is one of the few areas where I say experiment (ignore the designer) and see what works for you.Assuming a fixed mount on your tonearm (meaning that you can’t change your pivot-spindle... |