viridian
Responses from viridian
| PS Audio BHK300 didn’t work this morning. Jim, thank you, and best of luck for a speedy resolution. | |
| PS Audio BHK300 didn’t work this morning. Sorry to hear of your issues. When you say that you checked "everything" did you physically remove each fuse and test it with the continuity function of a multi-meter or similar? Visual inspection is not reliable. | |
| DIN Phono Cable DIN refers to a variety of connectors originally designated by German standards, what you are looking for specifically is a JIS connector. Japanese standard. | |
| Ortofon carts are too hot for my phono preamp? Excessive capacitance with a MM cartridge will cause a peak in the audible range before any roll off at the top of the range, and this will be perceived as added brightness. https://www.hagtech.com/loading.html | |
| What is a "reference" system? Dekay, thanks for that! Well, if it’s good enough for James Mason, it’s good enough for me. What kills me is that I have visited the homes of some of the old codgers...err members on this board, and you know what? They have all of this scratch bu... | |
| Ortofon carts are too hot for my phono preamp? Well in MM mode the Avid has 48db of gain, which is very high for MM, which is typically around 40db, and the Ortofons tend to measure high output, so what you are hearing could be a mismatch. In which case the only options are to live with it, ch... | |
| Help me choose a phono pre Whatever preamp you choose, make sure that you can select 0 picofarads of capacitance, or at worst case 100 picofarads, or less. The AT has a rising high end response and that can be exacerbated by high capacitance phono stages. And your phono cab... | |
| What is a "reference" system? No, I mentioned it, "Richard's", short for Richard's Wild Irish Rose. You need to get some better hooch and become more conversant with the finer things in life. | |
| What is a "reference" system? Thanks to all who played. This morning, I just cracked open my second bottle of Thunderbird (hey, it's a holiday), and it hit me. Thunderbird is my "reference" hooch. The one that I judge all other hooch by. Otherwise, I would never know how good ... | |
| Desperate to Get Back to Horns Yes Wolfe! Thank you for the correction, appreciated. | |
| About Koetsu Rosewood I have never seen a case in audio where paying 100 times the price yields 100 times the sound quality, and I have worked at nine different audio stores. So I too would doubt it. We call this the law of diminishing returns. Not to say that such a t... | |
| Desperate to Get Back to Horns ...as do I... | |
| Desperate to Get Back to Horns Not even close to the same size, Altec 19 is 30x39x21, 24,570 cubic inches, and Speakerlab 7 is 29x17x15, 7395 cubic inches. I know, I have owned both. And if you have the itch, agreed seek out the 19s. But I will relate a little story. I have be... | |
| About Koetsu Rosewood I'm willing to bet that more Koetsus are used with a $17K phono stage than a $160 one, LOL. | |
| About Koetsu Rosewood Koetsus are a bit of a specialist cartridge, although they will mechanically plug into any record player, their best performance is obtained only by matching them to the proper tonearm. IMHO the Denon 103 presents a similar situation. Both will sh... |