viridian
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| cartridge loading Your hum is not caused by loading. You should make sure that you have the phono preamp on MM. From there, it is either an issue of the unsheilded Grado picking up hum from your turntable motor, which happens with Regas and the like from time to ti... | |
| Of Moving Magnets - Step ups - and phono stages I would suggest a transformer. The Ortofon transformer is really nice and uses the excellent Lundall transormers. It is flexible and great sounding. Although it adds a stage, you will be adding one no matter what, if you wish to use both LO and HO... | |
| DL 103 One of the Auditorium 23 transformers. | |
| Ten audiophile commandments It might as well be used when I buy it, cause it's sure as hell gonna be used when I sell it.Happy Halloween! | |
| American Folk/Bluegrass music to die for Why not go for Bill Monroe or Del McCoury? | |
| Audio Buffer The ARC specs are 600 ohms output impedance and suggest a minimum of 20k ohms input impedance.http://www.arcdb.ws/REF3/REF3.htmlThe Stereophile test results indicate a very low imput impedance on the Macs lower than you state above: http://www.ste... | |
| Your feelings on vintage audio. What's vintage? It seems that anything over ten years old is now considered vintage by some. That said, vintage tube gear can sound great, and there is always the pride of ownership. But vintage solid-state........not so much. | |
| The Great Vinyl Debate Back in the 1970s, MoFi reissues cost $14.99 for a single LP. What would that translate to in 2010 dollars? There were many who complained then about the cost. As they do about the cost of cars, hi fi gear and houses. Interestingly, many MoFis fro... | |
| Review: Denon DL 103R Cartridge Not nearly enough arm mass....... | |
| How do designers fare when they change companies? One of the quietest guys in the industry is Kevin Voecks. He ran an audio store in Massachusetts, then started designing loudspeakers for Symdex. From there he moved to designing the excellent Mirage speaker line and after the untimely demise of P... | |
| Dan D'Agostino is back with a new line "...the worlds best known amplifier designer" and he's modest too. I wonder how John Curl, Nelson Pass, Bill Johnson et al feel about that little bit of self promotion. | |
| What amp do use to drive your Klipsch Cornwall I, Hey, I just joined the club! I picked up a nice pair of 1977 Cornwalls on Friday. One tweeter was inoperable, and a new set of diaphragms is on the way to me. With luck, I should be up and running this weekend. I'm going to keep the Fortes though.... | |
| Live performance acoustics. The Greek is not a room at all; it's an outdoor venue isn't it? It's just a band shell. I used to go to the Playboy Jazz Festival there back in the day. | |
| I need a lower gain 12au7 for Mastersound Derek, thanks for the heads up, I often get my hookers and Viagra from Moldova, but never thought of getting tubes there.In all seriousness, it's so great to correspond with someone that has had some issues with their first tube experience and wor... | |
| What a difference curtains make...WOW Your neighbors concur! |