tubehead120
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| Who's done it besides me ? I have numerous vintage MMs, particularly Shure and Grado. I also have a bunch of MCs (mostly Denon but also Ortofon and Dynavector) and a Grado Statement Reference. They all sound good, in different ways, with the right stylus. It depends on t... | |
| old high end preamps.. The good blue Alps pots (Blue Velvet) were physically larger (maybe 1 1/2 times as big) than the ones you see now. The only place I see the old ones now is in stuff I built 15-20 years ago. | |
| What is the appeal of the Denon 103 cartridges? If# of turns primary - Np# of turns secondary - Nsprimary impedance - Zpsecondary impedance - ZsthenNp/Ns = square root of (Zp/Zs)Zp = (Np/Ns) squared x ZsJust Google "transformer impedance ratio" for the above formula.for a 1x10 transformer, Z... | |
| What is the appeal of the Denon 103 cartridges? Sorry - one more: That 2x impedance thumbrule only applies to stepup transformers. If you are using an MC amp stage, it's 10x. For the DL-103 that would be 400; some inexpensive phono preamps are fixed at 100 ohms or thereabouts. You would nee... | |
| What is the appeal of the Denon 103 cartridges? IMHO it takes a heavy arm for that low compliance (I use a Jelco 750 for them). Proper use of a step-up transformer really helps as well, and there is a lot of disinformation around. Some hints: 1) a transformer has no set impedance; it reflects... | |
| Can an IC based amp be considered 'high end'? No matter what you consider high end, most IC-based stuff can be improved by putting a Burson op amp replacement (made of discrete parts) in it. The amount of improvement depends on what chip was there in the first place but I haven't found any o... | |
| Get your First Watt SIT-3 now? So where do you get this "sort of kit"? | |
| Budget hi-fi and vintage audio gear Take it from a troubleshooter who has used this stuff in factory and power plant conditions as well as at home for as long as I can remember:For pots/controls:https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00006LVF1/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02__o00_s00?ie=... | |
| Best Phone Stage for under $1,000.000 I bought a PS Audio Phono Converter when the price dropped to $1000. It's very good AND can rip ytour LPs to HiRez (including DSD). It also has a line in so you can rip with another phono preamp if you wish. I'm using it with very tweaked Linn ... | |
| Room correction, DSP for dummies. I use a DSPeaker Antimode 8033 on each sub and I love the results enough to consider getting their Antimode 2.0 for full range correction. | |
| Repair Linn turntable vs buying a different one I love Linn tables. I have seven, including 2 with DC motor; the others use either Valhalla boards or 2 other board types for speed control. I have Jelco, SME, Micro Seiki, Grace and Linn arms for them. I have installed counterweights on most o... | |
| New Tweak --- Its Fantastic Not flipping thru 40 pages to find a link. Can't be worth much if it doesn't come up when I Google it. Stop wasting our time. | |
| GTA SE-40 Service Manual now available I just got one and want to restore/upgrade it. I'm going to get the Sonic Craft kit. I saw the top entry about the Yahoo group having a manual. I've tried to join it 3 times. They say to talk about your gear and why you want to join so it won'... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Sleater-Kinney: "No Cities To Love" | |
| Whats playing on your system today? The Pretty Reckless... some people still like new things.. |