dougdeacon
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| DIY stylus-cleaning magic long Spencer, just noticed your post. Glad you found Mr. Clean as effective as we have. Next month will mark one year of cleaning our styli exclusively with a dry stylus brush and the Magic Eraser. Nothing but continued good results to report from here... | |
| Review: ZYX Airy2 and Airy3 Cartridge Thanks for your response. My calculation was wrong. The best cartilage loading in my Airy 3 was 12 ohms at first, and after about 5 hours it went down to between 9 to 10 ohms. Aha! Good to know neither of us is going deaf. Prepare for further down... | |
| Review: ZYX Airy2 and Airy3 Cartridge Yhyun,What is the actual resistive value of the resistors that sound best? Are you calculating the load seen by the cartridge correctly? Not trying to be cute, I just want to be sure there really is a big difference before I start rattling off any... | |
| Step-up transformers... Spencer,Bombaywalla has/had a CAT SL1 Signature MkIII. You can read his review on Tubes Asylum. Maybe he can advise on how it handles lower output cartridges. My guess is you'll need a stepup, though 20db might be too much. If your line stage is t... | |
| About Lugnut -- Patrick Malone Paul,Thank you for the update. The news, daunting as it is, seems somewhat better than the worst Pat told me he was expecting. It sounds cliche, but if they removed 1/3 of his stomach then he has 2/3 of one left. If the stomach and some length of ... | |
| Advice needed, MC cartridge for SpaceArm? I have a friend with a Space Deck and Space Arm. He wanted something more neutral than his Grado and more resolving than his Denon.I sent him my Shelter 901 to try (that offer is open to all A'gon members by the way, just email me). But I also tol... | |
| OK, I made the leap... Scottht,Your advice was good, and well-intentioned too, but you obviously got to him too late. He's doomed.OTOH we have another new friend on the analog forum. | |
| About Lugnut -- Patrick Malone Patrick,It's good to have you back with us after your visit home. What a wonderful gift from Steve. It was a gift that reflects the true spirit of its recipient as much as its giver. "The love you take is equal to the love you make." Because you m... | |
| Help me find a Simple Hi End Turntable Metralla had the best advice IMO. Find a reputable dealer or audiophile nearby and pay them to help. Every rig above my old Fischer-Price needs occasional tweaking and adjustment. That is the nature of trying to make music by dragging tiny rocks t... | |
| OK, I made the leap... I want to commend Rushton on the pictures thing. Damn showoff, y' makin' the rest 'f us look lahk IDjits!Excellent advice from all those above, particularly the part about spending some quality time in the archives before dropping major cash. I sp... | |
| Teres Turntable Support - concrete, wood, rack...? Oakiris,Our equipment (except speakers) is all in/on a Salamander Synergy Triple 20. See it here:http://www.mander.com/syn/synergy.jsp?modelbase=sl20This stand is decidedly NOT audiophile approved. In fact it rings like a bell. I know that so plea... | |
| Teres Turntable Support - concrete, wood, rack...? Hi Oakiris,I have a Teres (265) on a suspended wood floor and so do many others. It is much less sensitive to footfalls than my previous suspended table. The Teres has NEVER skipped or even audibly mistracked due to outside vibration of any kind.M... | |
| To Loricraft users Cmk and Tbg,I tried it. 0g downforce I mean.It works great! Of course you already knew that.Thanks for the tip. | |
| Review: ZYX Airy2 and Airy3 Cartridge Simes,Thanks for the good review of our review. Seems like we've both experienced many of the same things. What other cartridges have you compared your ZYX's to?I think my all unshielded silver cables which worked better with the spks I previously... | |
| Review: ZYX Airy2 and Airy3 Cartridge Gendut3,Since it's brand new I'm not 100% certain, but I think retail is about $7K. Your best bet is to contact SORAsound directly, especially since he normally discounts from retail.Here's his rollout ad for the UNIverse:http://cls.audiogon.com/c... |