yeti42
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| Source for resistors for an acoustech/sutherland phono preamp Vishay metal foil are the resistors of choice for cartridge loading, or at least they were last time I paid any attention. I do think though that getting VTA and VTF tuned in properly with a shibata stylus should be your first priority. I assume i... | |
| Generally speaking, are MC cartridges more delicate than MMs? The replaceable styli of some MM cartridges is the main feature you’d lose and there are a few well regarded cartridges from Ortofon, Goldring (with derivatives from Audionote UK and Roksan), Nagaoka, etc that have this feature. As you’ve not need... | |
| To bolt Standmounts to stands, or not? Is there a torque value for the bolts? If not that’s something else to experiment with. I tried it with speakers and stands that weren’t intended for bolting but not for long. I find the small Herbie's that take a spike very useful for spe... | |
| Cartridge recommendations If you have the arm for it the Ortofon SPUs have a warm full bodied sound but they’re low compliance. If there’s a removable headshell than just worry about balancing the 30g weight of the pickup head but if you need 1/2” mounting than the naked N... | |
| ETHERNET CABLES Didn’t try bluejeans for ethernet but liked their 4974R 12G sdi cable as an SPdif cable. For ethernet I started with some throwaway CAT5e scrounged from work but later tried some belden 1305A CAT5e and 1303E CAT6a from Designacable in the UK and ... | |
| Ortofon MC Cartridge Problems ?? Is there a record clamp and has the cartridge made contact with it? I had another unipivot and couldn’t use my HRS record weight with it because they made contact at the end of the side while the groove was still trying to take the stylus inwards.... | |
| Re-tip Ortofon Cadenza Bronze Unless you’ve bent the exiting cantilever it’s not now you need to worry about the cost, take good care of your cartridge and it will have gone up when the time comes anyway. I have the other current Ortofon with a Replicant 100 stylus on an alu... | |
| Turntables Regas are about as idiot proof as a turntable can get but not necessarily audiophile proof. Do things Regas way and they’re fine but pick something else if you want adjustability to fine tune or accommodate different cartridges they’re not the ans... | |
| What measurements from the rear wall? It’s easier to measure from the back and I start from the wall one speaker at a time using the Sumiko Master set method, unless the speakers are designed for boundary use. Pay attention to levelling unless measuring at the bottom. Different wall... | |
| Herbie’s Spike Decoupling Gliders: my…experience I found Herbie's small gliders took a little while to break in, a couple of weeks at least with quite a harsh effect on high piano notes, most noticeable with an electric piano which faded in time. I’ve had brass and titanium break in on ... | |
| Buzzing in Speaker while Playing CDs I had buzzing from one of a pair of Thiels just from one fleet foxes track, on CD. Tightening the bolts securing the main driver cured it. The other was loose too but didn’t hit the right resonance to buzz. I even asked Thiel what the torque value... | |
| Chime in if you bought a second table that cost a fraction of your main table. I just kept my old table, a Townshend Rock mk2, when I bought an Artemis and Schröder Reference. I put a mono version of a Decca Maroon on the Rock and ran it along side. On original mono cuts it mostly beats the main deck but not always. | |
| Phono Stage Gain - how does it impact sound? Run it for 50 hours, then revisit the VTA and VTF settings, finalising by ear. Dynamics should peak when the stylus is correctly aligned (more so with a fine line stylus than your previous eliptical) and the coil in the focus of the magnetic field... | |
| Transformer..? Moving To TheUK The internal conversion might not be that difficult if there are existing taps on the transformers. The manufacturers should be able to advise. | |
| My Sonic Labs cartridges I heard a signature platinum on a Dohmann Helix 2 at Ana Mighty Sound in Paris, they even made a video of it playing a track from my copy of Roy Harper’s Stormcock. I heard quite a few combinations that day including a Koetsu Azure on a Schröder 2... |