swampwalker
Responses from swampwalker
| Upgrading cartridge used or new? Middle ground- buy used cart from dealer who has excellent feedback. | |
| Newbie building modest system ...what amp? +1 for McCormack DNA 0.5 (or 1.0). | |
| Denon SUT or Micro Seiki head-amp? the Puccini Settanta is already a nightmare when it comes to "volume control": you need to have surgery precision with that knob.That's what I was learning from the web reviews I read. Excess overall gain coupled with a finicky attenuator is a rec... | |
| Who is the WORST Audio Shop? different people have different outcomes when they visit the same dealer.Sometimes that is true; but sometimes different people have the same outcome when they visit the same dealer. That's why it's not appropriate to extrapolate from a sample of ... | |
| Denon SUT or Micro Seiki head-amp? Looking at some comments on-line about the amp you are using, there are some suggestions that the gain steps are a bit large at the lower end of the scale, so I think that 80 DB of phono gain would be too much; leaving you wanting more fine contro... | |
| Denon SUT or Micro Seiki head-amp? Well, you know that 60 dB of gain is not enough, so you'd have to use the MC input which would give you 80 dB, which might very well be too much, depending on how much gain your line stage and amp supplies, room size, etc. If that were the case, y... | |
| Denon SUT or Micro Seiki head-amp? Fedocable- Your welcome. I suggested the head-amp because in a highly resolving system, I have preferred a high gain active phono stage vs. a xformer. I have very little technical expertise in this area, but I am told that one of the reasons is th... | |
| Denon SUT or Micro Seiki head-amp? Fedocable- Marakanetz MAY be correct but if there are import limitations it might not be possible to find a sufficiently high gain full function pre-amp or phono stage. Using the KAB gain calculator, a cart w 0.2 mV output requires about 64 dB of ... | |
| Question for all Esoteric owners with clocks ..... Is it possible he left out the decimal point? $1000.00, not $100000?? Methinks so. | |
| Denon SUT or Micro Seiki head-amp? The Micro-seiki "head amp" IS an active gain stage, which if it does not result in noise, can often provide better results than an SUT which can result in ringing and will "magnify" any cable or loading mismatches. | |
| Volume level of ARC Ref 5 seems very high I've used the Rothwells many times. Maybe a good idea to give them a shot and then if it solves the overall problem, you can look further into having ARC lower the overall gain on the pre. | |
| Coconut Audio = LOL Y'all are missing the secret message. It's called CocoNUT Audio. He/she is obviously cuckoo for coconuts ;~) | |
| Volume level of ARC Ref 5 seems very high The Euphrodites is a high-very high eff loudspeaker @ 98db/watt/meter, which means 1 watt @ 3 meters would give you 92 dB, so it's not surprising that you have to stay near the bottom of the volume attenuator's range. It is also true that at the l... | |
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| Gain challenge with Lyra Delos You went from a 2.5 mV HO MC cart to a 0.6 mV output low/med output MC cart. According to the KAB gain calculator, your new cart needs 13 dB more gain than the old, so I don't think that the BAT is going to solve the problem. The hiss you are hear... |