vusi_khumalo
Responses from vusi_khumalo
| Dynavector XX Mk II SUTs are designed to go into the MM input of your Phono (47Kohm) so if the 58db gain spec relates to your MC input then I dont think you will get good results. | |
| Anyone who has had a VdH Colibri for over 1000hrs Lewm yes it's the cart you sold me, it will one day be one of the few Colibris with over 2000hrs ;-) There is a XGP 0.65mv that Bas sold here a while back, the day I buy it I will send you the XCP to play with for a few months. | |
| Anyone who has had a VdH Colibri for over 1000hrs Cfluxa what I'm guessing you are referring to as 'regular' is in fact the Reference or higher end (and weight) cart. Must be honest the 2 XGP LWs I went through were from memory as good as the Ref XGP. I think the Ref is about 2gr heavier but it i... | |
| Anyone who has had a VdH Colibri for over 1000hrs Cfluxa my first Colibri was a LW too and the few I have seen have long(er) cantilevers. So if you were 1mm out with alignment you could mod the screws and/or try trade to one with a shorter cantilever etc. Maybe I should expand that to say if you ... | |
| Anyone who has had a VdH Colibri for over 1000hrs Hi Cfluxa. Silicon damping (and any anti-skate) degraded the sound on SME V, which has fixed head holes too. I had to file the threads off the top 3mm of the 6mm screws I use to thin them so I could twist the cart. I can imagine the expression on ... | |
| Anyone who has had a VdH Colibri for over 1000hrs Now at over 700hrs and with the arm dropped even lower (lowest position) and alignment changed to Lofgren. Getting the best results of the journey so far :-) I'm ready to admit that I didn't expect to have to fiddle with the setup so much to get t... | |
| Results from Eliminating Anti-Skate I had similar results with a SME V/vdh Colibri combo, setting the A-S to 0 as opposed to removing the mechanism though. From memory I think my previous DV xx-2 & xv-1 carts did benefit from A-S but maybe I didn't know as much about optimising ... | |
| Anyone who has had a VdH Colibri for over 1000hrs Many thanks for all your responses!In the last month I have been playing around with VTA and alignment to try and improve things and it worked wonders :-) Firstly on the SME V arm I have found the Stevenson curve to sound the best of the 3 curves ... | |
| How many with analog rigs only? 100% Vinly for 4 years now, never looking back :-) | |
| Would a Dynavector XX2 MkII be good upgrade? Damn fragile carts? or maybe not! I had a XX2 mkII 3 years ago, broke it before 100hrs. I then broke 2x XV-1s in a year(both still not run in), 2 other close friends of mine broke theirs last year! i have since moved to Colibris(2x) which look mor... | |
| SME 20 SME V cartridge Misnomer, I think your arm will work well with most carts under 15g. This probably means you have a choice of over 100 carts in your price range. I think it would help to narrow that list down if we knew the Phono stage you are using, maybe even t... | |
| Cartridges: low output vs. high output For me the answer starts with what Phono stage you plan to use, because matching is the most important factor. Also helps to know in absolute terms which input (MM or MC)sounds better on your Phono. There aren't a lot of cartridge manufactures tha... | |
| New Vinyl - "scratchy"? Also worth trying on a friends system to see if it's not specific to your sysytem. When I got my 45rpm Charlie Brown Christmas by Vince G Trio it was scratchy. A year later after I changed the Dynavector XV-1s for a Colibri XGP I coencidentaly fou... | |
| Your Impressions of the DV XX2 MKII Had a DV XX2 MKII 3 years ago on and SME V arm. I still miss it up to this day - even after 2 XV-1s & 2 Vdh Colibris! It had a magic with the ARC Ref Phono, smooth from top to bottom. Awesome bass and dynamics, sounded supper with any LP I thr... | |
| Benz HO MC wood cartridge what type phono pre? 52tiger,Not sure what the output mV is on the cart you are refering to, but if it is more than 2mV then only a very low gain MC phono (<48db)should have the result you are explaining. What it also might be is that you are used to the extra driv... |