viridian
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| Best 5814a tubes for DAC? The best 5814 is an Amperex 7316. | |
| If you wanted to impress someone, which track? Pat Boone, from the album "In A Metal Mood; No More Mr. Nice Guy". I play the, most excellent, salsa-tinged version of Led Zep's "Stairway To Heaven". It never fails to clear the room though. | |
| To buy or not to buy a used cartridge? Well, there's another angle to this one, if you buy a great cartridge, Koetsu, Supex, Kiseki, or whatever, with a roached cantilever, you can usually buy it very, very, inexpensively. Send it to Soundsmith and for another $400.00 you have a new ca... | |
| New JJ Tesla tubes For the price that you will pay for those, you can get some nice NOS tubes. Maybe not Tele smooth plates, but some excellent GEs. It seems that the current small signal tubes have not really come that far, but the power tubes are quite excellent. | |
| Why not horns? I own horns as well. You should do a bit more reading before throwing around terms like "distortionless". | |
| 4 Ohm Load I don't give a crap what my gear enjoys. If I want it to drive 4 ohm loads it better start pushing. I pay the bills around here. | |
| Something Vintage Sherod, I bought the Tyr lls when new after a rave review by Gordon Holt in Stereophile. Nice speakers, if you don't drop them on your toe! | |
| Something Vintage I'm pretty much all vintage:Micro Seiki MR-711 DD table with MA-202L armGray ST-33 table with Papst motor and ESL S-2000 armRussco Cue Master idler drive table with Micro Seiki B-77 MKll arm in rolling studio baseDenon DP3000 table in white ash ba... | |
| How important is ext. adj. for cartridge loading Peter:I don't change MC loading that much, though having it on the front panel would be nice. MC/MM selection on the front is not desireable to me as the first visitor or child that flips the swith to MC when you are running MM will cause an unfor... | |
| Analog care -- what do we NEED A little steel wool, a little spit, and a nickel to tape to the headshell when the ruby needle starts mistracking. | |
| Jelco Arm mass and cartridges The formula for effective mass of a tonarm is: Total Dynamic Moment of Inertia divided by (Effective Length of Arm)^2 You will note that increasing a fixed weight at the pivot results in less of an increase of effective mass than the same weight a... | |
| KAB Rumble filter gets preamp to overload/distort? Sorry, this is not a smart question. Do you, by chance, have the KAB hooked between your turntable and your phono stage, it should be after the phono stage, before the preamp, or in the processor/tape loop? | |
| Phono preamp gain setting To clarify, when I said "MM" in the above post, I should've said "high output". The Soundsmith is, of course, a MI. | |
| Phono preamp gain setting The measurements in the Stereophile review found that the high freqency overload margin of this phono preamp is shockingly low:http://www.stereophile.com/phonopreamps/307sim/index2.htmlThis would seem to mitigate against using a MM into the higher... | |
| Denon DL-103/103R or DL-301II An excellent primer on cartridge/arm matching can be found here:http://www.theanalogdept.com/cartridge___arm_matching.htmI meant a touch light in the bass, not thin or lacking in midrange dimension. I refer only to the original 301 having no idea ... |