terry9
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| Cartridge Loading- Low output M/C Wyn, I'm not claiming anything original here, except perhaps my anal-retentive dedication to costly devices!Speaking of which - direct drive ESL. I have new generation Quads, which I opened up as soon as the warranty expired. I found a step-up tra... | |
| Cartridge Loading- Low output M/C Wyn, your coaching is much appreciated. However, I am running discrete differential amplifiers (MATxy devices) throughout, and there is no "bias/protection resistor in series with a high impedance node in the signal path". Also, I am using air or ... | |
| Romex power cable as speaker cables? The copper part is fine but the dielectric is a bit of a problem because of dielectric absorption, which is increasingly problematic with frequency. You really want something like teflon or at least a good polyester.I run ESL's which require a ser... | |
| Cartridge Loading- Low output M/C Thank you, Wyn. Food for thought - or rather, food for experiment. Another pole means another stage and another pair of complementary devices, so the trade-off is obvious. But next is the amplifiers' turn, so it will have to wait!Thanks again for ... | |
| Cartridge Loading- Low output M/C @almarg ... in a hobby where a lot of audiophiles concern themselves with dubious and unexplainable minutiae such as which way a fuse is oriented an explainable and potentially significant phenomenon such as this seems to me to be a reasonable thi... | |
| Cartridge Loading- Low output M/C Wyn, I note the the simple expedient of putting the 2120 Hz filter first has the effect of reducing RF by 50dB at 1MHz at the first device. Is it your view that an additional pole is required?Thanks! | |
| Which material sounds better for speakers construction? Wood, Ply or MDF? I am quite keen on Panzerholz, a very dense, very dead German beech plywood with elastic properties. Costly to experiment with, though - $1000 sheet. | |
| Tonearm Suggestions For Technics Sp15 Under 5k I had an SP15 for emergency use, and paired it with a very good tonearm and cartridge - quite disappointing. With an upgraded Rega RB300 it was fine, perhaps because expectations were lower. But it was no SP10. | |
| Thumbs up for ultrasonic record cleaning The higher the frequency, the smaller the bubbles, hence the better to clean small spaces and crevasses.One of our big problems with vinyl is grease (fingerprints, etc.). It's hard to see plain water being very effective at removing that, irrespec... | |
| Cartridge Loading- Low output M/C @atmasphere I didn't know most of that. Thanks for sharing! | |
| Cartridge Loading- Low output M/C Just to elaborate on what Lewm said, a small loading resistance corresponds to a big load. The reason is that the loading is a resistance across the outputs, and so the cartridge motor has to work hard to get anything past that small resistance. T... | |
| Vinyl - Hearing The Beginning of the Song One Revolution Earler Tape should be stored so that the extra tape ("the tails") are on the outside of the reel. This makes print-through more obvious during loud passages, where it is swamped by the desired signal.But sometimes tape is stored "tails in", and a megabuc... | |
| Speaker design customer feedback Coherence first: all frequencies come from similar technologies. I can't abide a speaker which presents a piano's top octave one way, and the bottom octave another. ESL's have coherence, Magnepan used to.Fast: ESL's are the classic. Also ribbons a... | |
| Why do these Zyx Fuji and Airy 3 have such a dark sound? Also, I would like to second Karl's comment. Setup is critical, down to matching the torques on the cartridge screws. | |
| Why do these Zyx Fuji and Airy 3 have such a dark sound? Have you tried playing a test record? Because, if you are used to digital, a good analogue sound might seem lacking in treble. |