dan_ed
Responses from dan_ed
| phono stage break in? Noams, it sounds to me like you should get even more improvement as you continue to play through your preamp. What you describe is very much what I also hear as caps break in.Think about this. Caps are voltage and time devices. This circuit is als... | |
| phono stage break in? I agree with Raul about caps needing break in time. That seems, based on my experiences, to be the component that does benefit from prolonged exposure to the signals of music reproduction. To take this one step further, it seems to me that any com... | |
| phono stage break in? Noams, the devices do break in much differently with a signal going through them, and not just a static signal. It needs to vary in amplitude and frequency just as the signal from the record will. Just turning on the unit with no signal does nothi... | |
| Transparent Phono Cable Well, I was thinking more like 200 to 300 hours but agree that this is still a long time. At least that has been my experience with speaker and IC Venustas cables. Given the low level signal passing through a phono cable I would expect this cable ... | |
| Analog cables for TT Ok, so we're talking a HO MC cartridge with an output impedance of 134 ohms. It's pretty much the same as any MM but since it is a MC I don't know if cable capacitance is much of an issue. Perhaps just try to keep the capacitance as low as possibl... | |
| Transparent Phono Cable Ed, please come back with your impressions of the XV-1s in regards to all of the music genres that you listen to. I've heard this cartridge with some classic rock and jazz, which is not supposed to be it's best application if you listen to some. I... | |
| Analog cables for TT What arm, cartridge and phonostage are you using? These will impact what you can expect to hear with different cables.It might be worth it to obtain some demo cables and swap them out so you can hear the differences for yourself. | |
| New Aerail 10T's Hi Jim,I think Mike Kelly is a graduate of New Hampshire University, but I could be thinking of someone else. In any case, the 10t's are a classic speaker. I bought Beemer's (Hi Paul!) and they have been wonderful. Even though I've changed speaker... | |
| Stylus For Gauge - Do I really need one? >All the more reason to use a better guage. It is the starting point I'm considering here and yes the final determination is done by ear. This has been beat to death elsewhere so in short, you use whatever you want. I consider compliances aroun... | |
| Stylus For Gauge - Do I really need one? It is not the effect of compiance on the guage, it is the guages usefullness in getting the VTF as close as possible to the manufacturing specs that matters. Higher end cartridges are more responsive to getting the VTF right and they tend to be of... | |
| Stylus For Gauge - Do I really need one? My take is that the VTF is more critical with lower compliance cartridges because of the compliance itself. Higher compliance is more forgiving when the stylus rides over minute bumps and warps, where as the lower compliance cartridge will force t... | |
| Stylus For Gauge - Do I really need one? You most definitely need a VTF guage. If you want to buy the last one you'll ever need, check out the one offered by member Ans for $95. I have no interest in this guage other than being a very happy owner of one. The Shure is a good way to go if ... | |
| Want to get into Analog but i do not have a preamp With the 834p, I believe that the load is fixed a 500 ohms for the MC input but I'm going on questionable memory here. (For MC you really don't care about the capacitance.) Pretty good value for most cartridges. It is easy to place load resistors ... | |
| Setting anti-skate It's the mechanic/tweaker in me that still has to know. :) But then, my system is finally revealing enough that I can easily hear these differences. (Don't under-estimate the Doshi effect!) In that respect, SirSpeedyMark is right on target about a... | |
| Setting anti-skate I should hope so, Warjarrett! :) IMHO, azimuth adjustment has been covered in so many places already. However, if you have an interesting and differenct approach I'd like to hear it. I think this is another adjustment where it is really nice to ha... |