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| Hornshoppe "the Truth" preamp - any opinions? Hi guys, just my personal experience. I followed Mr, Salvatore's advice re: the weight on top of The Truth. In my experience, the result was a deadening and closed in essence to the sound.For me, the best result was with the lid completely removed... | |
| tube burnout Hi Atmasphere,The cartridge is new with maybe twenty hours on it. Still, it is a vast improvement on the Shelter 501 I had before in the same set up.I think you are right, it has to be the loading of the cartridge.It is hooked up to an Audio Inter... | |
| tube burnout Hi Guys,Thanks for all the responses!The last time I listened to vinyl I was plagued by the same problem. That is,on turn on I would listen to vinyl at low volume and everything was OK for the first fifteen minutes. Then, a low level distorted sou... | |
| tube burnout BlindjimNo, only the phono stage tubes in the pre get affected No, I have not had to raise the volume level moreIt was an electronics repair shop, not the manufacturer that checked it | |
| tube burnout BlindjimYes I tried different vendorstube makersnew ones,NOS, usedstill it does'nt matter | |
| tube burnout Hi guys,Rar1I allow the pre a few minutes before playing music, at low volume for the first twenty min to half an hour. This goes for the amps as well.SpencerI am leaning towards this way of thinking also. I believe that somewhere, something is fe... | |
| Nagra VPS phonom stage - how good Does the Nagra have enough output to drive a power amp directly? | |
| Sleeper older preamp with great phono..... Any MFA Magus will have a very good phono.They can be found at a very affordable price.Cheers, | |
| RS A1 Labs rewire Thanks for all the input guys.A few years ago I replaced the leads with the factory stock but I did some surgery to the arm as well. The gentleman at Sakura Systems suggested thatI may want to discard the junction box behind the cartridge leads an... | |
| RS A1 Labs rewire Hi TotemmanI know Rob at Applause and he has tried to find a replacement other than the stock factory silk covered wires in the RS A1 with no luck. What I am looking for is an upgrade from this and long enough leads to reach the pre amp. I know so... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Hi Kravi4ka,Congratulations on your excellent arm purchase. I am sure that you will have years of enjoyment out of this beauty.Yes, overhang is 19.6 mm, but you can also experiment. Iposition the arm basically like JNantais does in his setups. Exc... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Hi guys,Got my replacement RS A1 tone arm wire harness. Hired a proto solder the wires on. He also stripped out the old junction box behind the cartridge leads and connected the wires directlyto the RCA jacks. Thus avoiding two extra contact point... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Hi Oregon,Thanks for the condolences. I emailed Sakura Systems with myproblem with the broken arm wire. Yoshi the importer responded like lightning and advised that a new harness isUS 25 plus shipping. I should be able to do the replacement myself... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Hi Oregon,I don't know where you live but if you go to SAKURA SYSTEMS on the net, they will take care of you. They are the N. American distributors as well as for 47 Labs. Also, if you live in N. America, they will deal with you directly. I have n... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Hi Kravi4ka,The RS A1 arm, to my mind is a contender for the ultimate if not outright THE ultimate arm.Every other arm made has a fixed cartridge position,where the cartridge is solidlyscrewed on to the arm. If you think of all the valleys and pea... |