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| Lyra or ZYX ? The Zyx R100 is indeed a good deal. Good sound, uncritical to Arms, makes life easy. The Delos is a cartridge which is probably one of the best ever made. It has enormous reserves and the better the System gets, the Delos will go with it. Some "up... | |
| "Making Mono" for checking Azimuth Very simple to do with Graham AZ-1 Azimuth Adjusting System. Use with monophonic record to determine the optimum azimuth position for the stylus tip. Works perfect. | |
| How will you split $3000 between phono and cart ? Option 1: 47 Lab + Zyx cart.Option 2: None | |
| Phonostage: Naim Superline vs 47 Labs phonocube The 47Lab has more air, deeper soundstage, better holographic Picture than the Naim in any Set up. Better voicing, better timbal details.It works with a lot of carts, don't worry. | |
| Tonearm: Phantom vs. 4 Point vs. 10.5 What i get from your anscers is that, Phantom i easy to setup and a good match to the Raven One. But TW10,5 is a better match, but diffucult to setup.Is that right?well...No.The Phantom is shorter but has a nice black finish. The Raven has a nice... | |
| Headshell Washers : Nylon or Stainless Steel? My main question is do the nylon washers have any ill-effects or disadvantages that you can think of?Well, they look nice but they have indeed a huge disadvantage:The recommendation from Linn to tighten the Cartridge screws until the Headshell cr... | |
| Tracking force and Unipivot tonearms >>If you know how to set up the VPI, it is a top level arm<<Top level?I don't think so.Actually, having compared a number of them to other "top level" arms side by side, I know so.Well, I think, we should be honest to ourselves. We al... | |
| Tube Preamps? A good one - from sound and reliability - is a used Lamm LL2 | |
| Ortofon A90 broken stylus That is a great Thread to keep the limited Edition A-90 alive. Don't panic when you still haven't one. Some Dealers bought a dozen and will sell them until they are gone. Then the next super duper game changer Ortofon Anna will follow.But that one... | |
| Phono cartridge left / right output voltage differ The left is .16 mv and the right is .18 mv.That is great for a Denon. | |
| Orsonic headshell source? Hello Avs9,you found the right one. The Ikeda is ultra rigid and has superior copper leads stock. You can replace them with silver ones, when you like that (I did that).It works extremely well with all kind of carts I ever used, lightweight Zyx to... | |
| Orsonic headshell source? Sometimes they show up here at Audiogon, at Ebay you will find those too.The Orsonics are very good and very cheap compared to others. You can spend endless money on Headshells but I think, a lot are rolled with a dice from calculation.A top HS is... | |
| Which LPs are on your permanent rotation? "If I were a rich Man"Zero Mostel | |
| Aesthetix Rhea? I had one - for a short time - some time ago. Well, the noise, yes, in my - sensitive- Speaker System everything from 60+ was more or less not useable. And the Soundstage was foggy and compressed. I used it in combination with several Line Preamps... | |
| Tonearm Damping You can try chewing gum. It is cheap and some users wrote, Wrigleys is the most neutral sounding one... |