dougdeacon
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| How much fine tuning required on cartridge loading If you're using stepup transformers, input impedance becomes very critical for MC's. Active gain stages make it useful (as Hagtech described) but not quite as critical.Still, I would never be without some way of adjusting impedance for MC use. Eve... | |
| Carts that sound like a Koetsu Gregadd,Very true. Our c-j preamp (tube) had alot of that rounded quality, on both leading edges and trailing ones. Typical c-j warmth. Pleasant, musical and never offensive, but not fully lifelike. It also lacked adequate power supplies, so our d... | |
| Cheap Turntable Protractor If you want cheap, why not free? Visit http://www.vinylengine.com/manuals_tonearm_protractors.shtmlPrint your own. Have it laminated for $2 at Staples or Kinkos if you like.Next best (and quite a bit better IMO) is probably the TurntableBasics for... | |
| Carts that sound like a Koetsu Thanks, guys. Excellent info.Apologies to Dazzdax for the digressions. | |
| Silicone for Tri-Planer damping trough Interesting observations, Thom.Cello and I confirmed the benefits of SirSpeedy's very fine tuning of damping on the Graham 2.2. It is far more particular than a 50% move this way or that. To get the most from that arm you really must adjust the da... | |
| Carts that sound like a Koetsu Raul,I've heard the Urushi, the RSP and the Onyx Platinum, but not the RS.When I had the RSP in my system I did use stepups, but Cello's two phono stages and my new one all use SS for the primary gain stage. The sonic character we've heard cannot ... | |
| Silicone for Tri-Planer damping trough We crackpots are everywhere!To quote another thread where I got myself in hot water, we find the TriPlanar's silicone damping "intolerable". That is with a Shelter 901 and various ZYX's.To our ears it kills HF extension and dampens everything rath... | |
| Carts that sound like a Koetsu Gregadd,What can I say other than the old YMMV? We have heard rounded transients from multiple models in multiple systems. You haven't heard that. Music is mysterious. ;-)It was wrong of me to ascribe that, or an enjoyment of it, to anyone else ho... | |
| phono stage break in? To avoid adding much to the length of this thead, I'll say that I agree with almost everybody!Do we hear various components break in? Absolutely. Some more than others, as has been noted. Cartridges, speakers, tubes, capacitors, interconnects and ... | |
| Carts that sound like a Koetsu Nghiep,I've compared the 901 and RSP, in two systems and on several arms (Graham 2.2, Basis Vector, Schroeder Ref, modded OL Silver, TriPlanar VII).In general I liked the review Fretless posted, and I also agree with him that the 901 lacks the mid... | |
| Carts that sound like a Koetsu You're right Dazzdax, it was a silly question. Trying for a sound you've never heard and know nothing about is risky and non-educational. Why hand off responsibility for your sonics (and your money) to the unexplored priorities of strangers?All yo... | |
| I've found the cd player for analog lovers Cmk,Paul and I are in fact two individuals: he's the smart one, I'm the chatty one. We own and enjoy the equipment, the music and the two cats in common.Our Exact Power (which also corrects sine wave irregularities) also helps smooth analog output... | |
| Tranfiguration Orpheus description Jtimothya,Thanks for reminding me of that passage in Tchaikovsky 4. I'll spin it tonight and double check my piccolodeum!SirSpeedy,ND is indeed a special guy, and his components ain't half bad either. We are very lucky to have been introduced to h... | |
| I've found the cd player for analog lovers Actually, we prefer our stock 3910 to both our previous Arcam FMJ CD23 ($2400), the Underwood modded 3910 and two $8-10K dedicated CDP's owned by friends. This makes our audio budget very happy. :-)This particular 3910's over-achieving is greatly ... | |
| I've found the cd player for analog lovers Onhwy61,We don't disagree. We're talking about different phenomena.I agree that "purist" recordings sound most lifelike within a certain volume range (though it's hardly a knife-edge adjustment). As classical listeners (and a little jazz), all of ... |