wrm57
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| Passive preamp I run systems with both active and passive preamps. What works best depends on synergy with the amp, as other posters have emphasized. Categorical statements about which is better don’t really apply. If your amp is friendly enough to passives (and... | |
| Phantom Supreme to 4Point-14? @rauliruegas, I missed an EPA-100 Mk2 by an hour yesterday on HiFiDo! It was scarfed up almost immediately upon being listed, and at a good price. Dang! Many thanks to all who contributed to this thread. I have a lot to think about as I plan my n... | |
| Phantom Supreme to 4Point-14? @mijostyn , I greatly appreciate your thoughtful post. I take your advice about VTA seriously and without offense. If it's a delusion, it is a persistent one, decades long, but perhaps confirmation bias is operating in more ways than one. I'm goi... | |
| Phantom Supreme to 4Point-14? Lewm, Thom agrees with you. I just got off the phone with him. Great guy. And like many wise heads in this thread, he gently argued against per-record VTA changes. Then he gave up. :) | |
| Phantom Supreme to 4Point-14? Thanks @rauliruegas . Should I hold out for the Mk2, made of Boron/Titanium, or is Titanium/Nitride Mk1 nearly as good? I’ve neither seen nor heard either one. | |
| Phantom Supreme to 4Point-14? Corrections to two of my previous posts. a WallyVTA, which surprised me with how much better it made things. I meant to say WallySkater. And regarding the Graham counterweight: The weight is slid along the track by an accordion-like mechani... | |
| Phantom Supreme to 4Point-14? Thank you for the tip. I’ve never talked to Tom. I might just give him a call. | |
| Phantom Supreme to 4Point-14? No worries, @karl_desch, my nervosa is not so labile :) and I do appreciate your thoughts. It’s certainly possible azimuth is changing with VTA. But in my experience, azimuth pertains more to clarity of image and soundstage rather than what I hear... | |
| Phantom Supreme to 4Point-14? The main reason for this thread is b/c I’ve started to sour a bit on my Graham Phantoms. Both of them exhibit a frustrating hypersensitivity to how the counterweight is set. I don’t mean VTF, which I set carefully to the 100th of a gram. I mean th... | |
| Phantom Supreme to 4Point-14? I have good alignment tools, accumulated over the years: a Wally dedicated to Grahams, an older Wally Universal that I use for my 9-in Ortofon, a UNI-Pro that I like best for my 12-in Ortofon, a MintLP for my 12-in SME, and a smattering of others ... | |
| Phantom Supreme to 4Point-14? @mijostyn , thanks, great stuff and much food for thought. I hear you and lewm about VTA and I really want it to be so. Life would be so much easier setting and forgetting. But every time I try that method it only sounds good on the record weight... | |
| Phantom Supreme to 4Point-14? @mijostyn , did you try the MSL Platinum with the 4P-14 and find it to need a lot of damping? The cart's compliance of 10cu and the arm's effective mass of 19 put resonance at 9 Hz, right in the fat part of green on Vinyl Engine calculator. Or is ... | |
| Phantom Supreme to 4Point-14? @sksos , that sounds like big fun. Let us know how it goes. | |
| Phantom Supreme to 4Point-14? @larryi , I think the 92 degrees in motion is why Fremer sets his to 93 static. Your approach to VTA, like lewm’s, is utterly reasonable. As an experiment, I’m going to set my tonearm to the average record, which in my scheme would be 160g, and se... | |
| I need Hign compliance cartridges They make interesting products, for sure. I have a 20x SUT from the Phase Tech days that is quite good. |