zaikesman
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| Phono Preamp Help - 47K Ohms - 100 Ohms .. Huh? Consttraveler - Sorry, I'm not going to be of much help for specific recommendations, as I've never owned a super-low output MC that required a transformer (though I have read that Wright Sound offers a decent one for about $350). Maybe do a forum... | |
| MIT Love 'em or Hate 'em Unclekrusty, you wouldn't be AKA 'Krusty The Clown' from TV's beloved The Simpsons, now would you? I'm tuning out most everything here beyond a certain point, save for the grin from Audiogon's beloved uncle Detlof... :-) | |
| Phono Preamp Help - 47K Ohms - 100 Ohms .. Huh? Consttraveler, with a cart output so low as .23mv, many (most?) phono preamps will need the assistance of a phono step-up transformer to provide a sufficient amount of quiet gain, and that sounds to be the case with your system. | |
| MIT Love 'em or Hate 'em Maxgain, you wouldn't be self-fulfilling your first-response prophecy under a bogus name- now would you? ;^) | |
| I don't understand Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue" Interesting citing, Trelja, about the ABB and KOB - I can see that connection, now that you have pointed it out. (I'll politely take exception to "THE American Rock & Roll Band" however! :-) | |
| It's Magnepan 20.1's or B&W Nautilus 801's That's wonderful - I wish *I* was getting a pair of those! Let us know how everything works out.Enjoy, Z. | |
| Checking the quality of your AC Thanks Bufus, I realize the voltmeter won't tell me about other AC problems, but I still wonder if voltage correction is really necessary from what I see (or don't see) with this meter. | |
| Review: Coincident Speaker Tech Total Victory Speaker Actually, Soundstage does contain a review in their archives showing a measured sensitivity for the Total Eclipse model as being 86dB vs. a claimed 94dB. I can't find a reference to a Stereophile review on Coincident's website or Stereophile's onl... | |
| Phono Preamp Help - 47K Ohms - 100 Ohms .. Huh? Agree with Twl, except I wouldn't even call 'conflicting' answers a 'problem' (unless they're posted by the same individual!). If there was no sincere difference of opinion or experience to be found in this hobby, we wouldn't really need this foru... | |
| Phono Preamp Help - 47K Ohms - 100 Ohms .. Huh? I have found that the recommended loading can be pretty useless as a guide to what sounds best. It seems to me you would probably prefer a loading somewhat higher than the low 100 ohm setting, but not essentially unloaded like 47k ohms. The correc... | |
| It's Magnepan 20.1's or B&W Nautilus 801's My gut response for your musical tastes (mostly acoustic it seems) would be the Magnepans, but that doesn't mean the B&W's might not actually work better in your room, although you likely won't go far wrong either way. The B&W's could well... | |
| Review: Sistrum Mini-Minitor Platform Support-SMM 1 Stand Although I have yet to be convinced by anyone claiming that vibrational transfer can be a one-way street, or that vibrations seek 'ground' like electricity, I do agree that speakers sound best when rigidly coupled to a non-resonant floor, and that... | |
| Cocktail of choice when listening to fav music? All I drink in is the music...Cheers! | |
| Review: Coincident Speaker Tech Total Victory Speaker Sorry, Natalie, I wish I had that information or could remember, but I don't. If I had to guess where I could have seen such measurements, it probably would have been either Stereophile or Soundstage.com., so you could check their web archives. | |
| Why do Maggies need a lot of power? Actually, I was thinking of the word 'average' in the strict sense, as in watts RMS, and the differences that can exist referenced to the peak level, at any listening volume. |