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| MC suggestions By all accounts, the original MC2000 bears an aluminum cantilever with a "fine line" tip. That’s another way of saying "line contact". According to our friend, Nikola, Axel had a small supply of actual original alu cantilevers with "fine line" sty... | |
| MC suggestions Chakster, Would you care to say what is so irreplaceably "special" about the line contact stylus on the MC2000? Assuming that the cantilever is replaced with a cantilever of like material and the stylus with a good modern line contact type, why c... | |
| JVC TT-101 Won't Stop bestie, I have no idea whether or not the particular circuit and ICs of the TT101 would be affected by lead length, but I am certain that some such circuits, using very wide bandwidth SS devices operating at high speed, are so affected. JP probabl... | |
| Vinyl vs high def audio i.e. 24bit / 96 or 192khz 3 easy payments,For 5K spent on turntable, tonearm, cartridge, and phono stage, and a willingness to consider used equipment (or maybe even if you stick to new), you can easily equal or surpass a 5K digital front end. It all depends upon you as li... | |
| JVC TT-101 Won't Stop It'd be great but you'd want to shoot yourself before you finished. There would be many pitfalls. Some of these circuits are affected by lead length, just to begin with. Also, it is a trick to get a multiple pin IC off a PCB and then successfull... | |
| Grace F14 MONO cartridges and styli Chakster, you’re doing nothing wrong. The purist approach would be to hook up only one channel to the cartridge. No need to go that far. A mono switch would make no difference as far as impedance matching at the headshell. | |
| Phono preamp Pass Labs XP-17 or XP-27 Maybe there will be good deals on the 25 now that it’s been superseded by the 27. That’s how I would shop. | |
| Tube rolling - 12AU7 to 6922 adapter I just found this by searching for an adapter which would permit me to use 6922 types in a socket wired for 12AU/T/X7s. In other words, the reverse of what the OP did. Does anyone know of such an adapter?Just a comment on this thread: In all my... | |
| Audio Additives Stylus Force Gauge inconstantcy To the OP: Lower the cartridge (preferably an MC cartridge, because they have big magnets) until it is barely above the weigh pan but not touching it. Does the gauge show a negative weight value? If so, that indicates it contains some low level ... | |
| Grace F14 MONO cartridges and styli Sorry, I forgot one thing. Chakster, the way you have hooked up your Grace to your stereo system could cause a degradation of performance, because each channel of your stereo phono stage is now seeing the output impedance of the cartridge in para... | |
| Grace F14 MONO cartridges and styli I don't disagree with anything HDM wrote above. That's pretty much what I said too. But I would not go overboard to say that mono cartridges derived by bridging stereo channels are to be dismissed out of hand. First of all, that would drastical... | |
| Grace F14 MONO cartridges and styli I’m not sure that’s a good question.It seems that Lyra orients one coil of a stereo cartridge such that it doesn’t react to vertical displacement. But it’s there. | |
| Grace F14 MONO cartridges and styli Chakster, You wrote, "4 lead wires from the conventional headshell are "Y" type for use exclussively with just 2 pins on the MONO cartridge." I am not sure I understand. How do you attach your 4 lead wires from the headshell to two pins on your ... | |
| Grace F14 MONO cartridges and styli I don't recall ever reading that a spherical tip is to be preferred for mono. Rather, I have often read that the spherical shape is OK for mono, whereas it would be regarded as out-dated for stereo. Miyajima make some of the best mono cartridges... | |
| Best LPs to Test Turntables If you're not in your own house listening to your own system, then you are "testing" not just a turntable in isolation but also everything else in the chain, including the room. If you are not already familiar with these ancillaries, then it woul... |