wrm57
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| MONO cartridge recommendation @folkfreak, Ah, sorry to bother. A quick search reveals my mistake. This was your good advice to me in that earlier thread: I wonder if you could not make up a simple cable which adds the two channels together and gives you the effect of a mono sw... | |
| MONO cartridge recommendation @folkfreak , I seem to recall from an earlier thread on the Zero that you run a custom mono phono cable to eliminate hum. What manufacturer made it for you? I’ve been eying this cartridge for along time but I have no mono switch on my preamps or p... | |
| TriPlanar tonearm outward skating issue that post tell us that was you not Triplanar whom fixed the problem because the advise Triplanar gave you not works. Dear @rauliruegas , I know you mean well, but you have misread my post. I did not say that I asked Tri for advice. I only asked f... | |
| TriPlanar tonearm outward skating issue I agree with cleeds. I’m not sure where Raul and others are getting this inflammatory business about Tri being unwilling or unable to fix this or any other issue with his tonearm. I certainly never asked Tri to adjust my anti-skate, nor claimed he... | |
| TriPlanar tonearm outward skating issue Yes, the wiring was my first thought, too. I've played around with the cable to no effect. Perhaps there is some torquing of the internal wiring within the arm tube/pivot, I don't know, but that's beyond my skill to check. And as I've been able t... | |
| Switching to solid state amp? I second Lak’s suggestion above to look at Plinius. I have an SA-103 in the same rack with a VAC 300.1a, switching back and forth depending on mood. The Plinius more than holds its own. It does not have quite the HF extension and sparkle of the VA... | |
| TriPlanar tonearm outward skating issue @shayes002: I, too, have noticed a high amount of native anti-skate in my Triplanar VII uii. Nothing like yours but still quite a bit. The armboard and table are perfectly level, and all parameters are set with reliable tools. Tri sent me a lighte... | |
| Are tuners still popular They are still popular with me. I have three, and listen to at least one every day. | |
| Clearaudio Innovation Wood or shoot for the stars Techdas AF 3 If I were you, I'd wait for the new Technics before dropping that dime.FWIW, I owned an Innovation Wood with Universal Arm for a couple of years, with Graham Phantom II in second position. While I liked it well enough, I never really loved it (eve... | |
| thread for PMC owners I’ve owned IB2i for nearly five years and think they’re excellent--but to get the most out of them, you really have to replace the binding posts. The stock posts have no place on a speaker of this quality and expense, IMO. Not only do they appear ... | |
| Would you use an Ortofon A90 on a Jelco tonearm? Soundsmith does offer an A90 retip using what Peter told me is the Ortofon Replicant 100 stylus. He has them in stock. It is a stylus-only retip, affixing the diamond to the original A90 cantilever. Peter does it personally. I don't recall the cos... | |
| I'm considering replacing my passive preamp with a tubes. Is it worth it? @milpai Sorry for the delay in responding. I just noticed your post. First, I've never owned a Music First, only listened to a friend's in my system. I did not mean to imply that anything was lost in moving from the MF to the Vac. Rather, as I rec... | |
| When is it time to consider adding a SUT? The LPS is not really a great candidate for an SUT because of its 38-ohm internal resistance (DCR). At .36 mV, you’d likely want to use a 1:15 SUT, which would present an impedance of 209 ohms to the cartridge. That’s pretty low, when you think ru... | |
| Bad vinyl I return many LPs for noise and warps. | |
| Alternatives to Psvane KT-88's ? BTW, I just swapped in two new quads of the PS KT88 a couple weeks ago. The old quads were trouble-free for around 2,500 hours, then developed a bit of a hum in a couple of tubes. No bias issues, just a hum. The other six still sounded good and bi... |