swampwalker
Responses from swampwalker
| Tonearm wiring termination---DIN, or RCA jacks? Not what you asked, so feel free to disregard, but if I were going to the expense of rewiring a tone arm, I would direct from cart clips to male RCAs that plug into your phono stage. Very low level phono cart output should, IMO, pass through as fe... | |
| Is my preamp useless? +1 Frogman. If the OP is still around, remember that Frogman is a musician who is intimately familiar with what real instruments sound like and is fully committed to maintaining the tonality, drive and emotional impact of a performance. I think th... | |
| Newb on the loose The Concerto v.2 is what I would call medium output. I would try the MC high setting or medium on the gain (Switch 2) which is incorrectly called impedance in the manual. If you don't have enough gain, you can try switch 3 but you may get too much... | |
| Funny and clever Axpona Ad John- I showed this to my wife also. Your wife and mine must be twins separated at birth. Although mine must have been the firstborn. It took her less than 5 seconds to say "he's looking at the speakers, not the woman!" | |
| Funny and clever Axpona Ad I'm not sure which is funnier, the ad or the responses. Thanks for the laughs, everyone. | |
| favorite independant audio dealers/designers +1 to all of the above. Add Kevin Hayes from VAC. If you're not put off by his sometimes less than warm "phone side" manner, add Richard Vandersteen. | |
| Newb on the loose Shawn- according to the specs, there is either 85 or 95 dB of gain through the MC input. That's more then enough for an LOMC cart, which the specs verify, saying the LOMC input can handle carts w output as low as 0.25 mV. There are only a few cart... | |
| Tidal Mofi is right, of course, but you'd probably find the SQ to be less than satisfactory. No matter how you work it, just remember to keep the volume maxed out on your computer/software and attenuate the signal w your regular pre. | |
| Sound format question.... Anything less than 320 kps pretty much sounds like elevator music. I find the premium Pandora to be reasonably good, but the lossless Tidal material much better. | |
| Fess Up How much have you spent on this Hobby?? Geoff: I feel your pain. As a poor graduate student several (ha!) decades ago, I let my gut override my brain and bought a Fiat 124 rag-top, from a guy who must have been clairvoyant. Started breaking down within a month. Or maybe not, that was pr... | |
| Best Preamp = No Preamp? OK, understood, Phusis. You make good sense. | |
| Pickup SRA - starting from a 500x microscope Isn't it amazing that when someone who REALLY understands all the technical issues and has a sound command of language, chimes in, it all becomes very clear? Thank you, Jcarr for taking the time to provide such a thoughtful, logical and well writt... | |
| Best Preamp = No Preamp? Phusis:"To each their own [fortune]"[quote]Couldn't agree more![quote]instead of being simply in the camp of preferring a faux sonic imprintingThose two statements are completely contradictory. Were you being intentionally ironic? | |
| Tidal At a minimum you will need a DAC- Digital to audio converter, with appropriate cabling. If your PC is too far from your pre to use a physical cable, you will need either an ethernet or wireless connection from the PC to the DAC, with the DAC locat... | |
| Electrical Ground to Water Pipe, No Earth Ground The electrician I just used came with A-rated feedback via AngiesListHe may be very good at what he does, but apparently part of what he does is separate the mark...I mean customer...from his hard-earned $$. Most of us, myself included, have no id... |