wrxified
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| Is it all in my head?? Have a buddy play 10 songs for you blind. Ones that you’re intimately familiar with. Play each song twice. Once with the upgraded cord, and another with the stock cord.Pick your favorite. If you somehow pick the upgraded cord even 75% of the t... | |
| Emotiva equipmet, how good is it? I’ve been using an Emotiva setup for 3 years and love it. I have a setup close to the initial system that someone else above started with. It’s their XSP-1 stereo pre-amp and the 2nd gen XPA-2 amplifier. Nothing but love for it. FWIW, which probab... | |
| Pani ... New ART-9 up and running ... Sorry I typed that wrong. I’m on my mobile. Meant the following but I’m going to add some data. Also keep in mind the compliance rating on the left side of the vinyl engine chart is based on a 10Hz compliance measurement. AT rates the dynamic comp... | |
| Pani ... New ART-9 up and running ... I’m rambling now. FWIW you’re better on the low end. The higher resonance value will cause a much bigger issue when it falls in the area of the frequency of the music being played. The lower end resonance value becomes an issue with warped records... | |
| Pani ... New ART-9 up and running ... The change in cartridge weight won’t impact it as much as the tonearm mass and cartridge compliance. Honestly this combo puts you right in the low end of the sweet spot to slightly below (7-8hz cartridge resonance). You can run some numbers on vin... | |
| Pani ... New ART-9 up and running ... Yes if we look at the typical numbers, a lower mass tonearm would get you in the sweet spot. That said my combination is about the same as yours and it sounds infinitely better than any setup I’ve had yet, including some combinations that fell ri... | |
| Pani ... New ART-9 up and running ... Your arm is 10-11 grams according to vinyl engines specs. https://www.vinylengine.com/library/sme/series-iv.shtmlAbout the same as my VPI 3D arm which sounds glorious with the ART9. Technically if if you go by the calculations, you are slightly be... | |
| Pani ... New ART-9 up and running ... Crazy. I was in a similar situation when I bought my ART9 but went the opposite way and sold my SUT. Coming from the AT33PTG/II at .25 mv it was a perfect match for my Parks Audio CM-1254 SUT. The SUT was on the high end however for the ART-9 w... | |
| Pani ... New ART-9 up and running ... @pani, we used 3 phono stages for the testing. Among them was a Clearaudio Nano, a Rothwell MCX SUT to Rothwell Simplex, and a Spectral DMC-6 with phono stage. The Spectral was easily the best of the 3, followed by the Rothwell setup, then the N... | |
| Pani ... New ART-9 up and running ... I picked up my ART-9 in early April. I also have the AT 33PTG/II. The PTG was a replacement for the 33EV. I've really been an Audio Technica fan. Over the past 3 weeks I've been putting the hours on it Probably a little over 50 hrs at this po... | |
| Pani ... New ART-9 up and running ... That is flat out sexy. Would easily trade my wife for that turntable. | |
| Pani ... New ART-9 up and running ... Thanks all. Was considering the PSAudio Nuwave Pre-Amp while they were closing them out. Have seen some pretty good reviews on it and kinda liked the idea of picking up the XLR outputs and ADC for ripping some of my favorite albums.http://www.ps... | |
| Pani ... New ART-9 up and running ... Great thread. Thanks Pani for your input. Have a couple questions for the group. Looking for suggestions. I see most people are using an appropriate phono pre-amp to deliver 100 ohms or more. Went through the 8 pages and might have missed it ... |