tketcham
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| Jolida JD9 settings for use with a Denon DL-160? Erik; based on what you've posted you are using the right settings, so it may be the tubes. I find that the JD9 will convey a different sound depending on the tubes. My favorite tubes of the three I've tried were Mullard style tubes from Groove Tu... | |
| Feelings on the Music Hall MMF 7.1 I haven't seen the new mmf-7.1 but from the photographs of the turntable (located at the Music Hall web site), the tonearm doesn't look like the Pro-Ject 9cc. The tonearm in the high-res image appears to have a separate headshell from the arm tube... | |
| Record cleaning machine or other devices?? Pivetta; how many records are you planning to clean? A few hundred? A thousand? Thousands?As Actusreus suggests, it depends on what you can afford now, and over time. If you don't plan on accumulating more than a few hundred albums and want to kee... | |
| SoundSmith EZ Mount Cartridge Screws Nothing negative; that's unless you mess up and don't adjust VTF after installing a high compliance cartridge or one with a fragile suspension using the heavy brass (6.2g) or stainless (5.8g) screws. That extra weight/force might damage the suspen... | |
| SoundSmith EZ Mount Cartridge Screws Oops. The second database link title should have been "Cartridge Database". It's mislabeled but gets you to the right place. TK | |
| SoundSmith EZ Mount Cartridge Screws Rosedanny; a relatively simple way to determine which weight of screw to use can be found at VinylEngine.com...Resonance Calculator You need to know the effective mass of the tonearm and the weight and compliance of the cartridge in order to use t... | |
| Upgrading cartridge used or new? Hi, Mountainsong; the replies you get aren't necessarily going to reflect the overall opinions on buying new or used. It's a limited sample of people that are willing to take the time to reply. But you probably already knew that.The question you s... | |
| Analog vs Digital Confusion Rgp; I've been playing LPs for more than 40 years and have a CDP and a tube buffer that makes for some very listenable CD playback. I could be content listening to only digital music. But I continue to listen to vinyl mainly because I enjoy the "r... | |
| Reasonable not to be offered a trial on a cart? It shouldn't be surprising that dealers do not allow prospective customers to demo valuable cartridges at home. The risk of damage and cost of repair or replacement is too high. As for the assertion that "components are likely not to sound of thei... | |
| interesting article about turntables and vinyl Odd statement at the end..."Most older turntables have a feature that allows users to replace the cartridge that controls record playback quality, a feature that might be important to audiophiles. Newer models are often outfitted with ONE STANDARD... | |
| Cartridge gain question Rockyboy; here's a simple chart showing approximate gain needed for a range of cartridge output voltages. (Modified from KAB website.) Below the chart is a link to the KAB gain calculator. It also provides a way to determine phono gain when only s... | |
| Clearaudio Concept - Used - Careful Pdjmwj; you might want to have your local retailer have a look at the turntable to make sure it's working properly. Just a quick look will find the most likely problems. That way you're not trying to set up a turntable that cannot be set up becaus... | |
| What exactly is "breaking in" on a new cartridge ? Neslepums; my comment on "break-in" being an ongoing phenomenon was somewhat cynical. :-) You're correct; "break-in" as used with phono cartridges is really just wear. But as I suggested, if the suspension does have a wear rate that is rapid at fi... | |
| What exactly is "breaking in" on a new cartridge ? It would be interesting to see a graph indicating the progression of change in cantilever suspension elasticity (or stiffness) over time played. As the suspension is stressed from movement of the cantilever and as the suspension becomes less/more ... | |
| Gingko or Symposium Ultra Platform?? Fivechannelguy: Herbie's no longer carries the larger 1 3/8 in. "grungebuster" balls. The web site advertised them as suitable replacements for the Gingko "Cloud" platform. My hunch is that they found the "MedicinBall" to be a better match with th... |