terry9
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| MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY? Don't really need a FET or a SUT to amplify the voltage of LOMC. A well designed BJT with parallelism and premium parts does it better and just as quietly. Pindac lists all the things to worry about - good to keep them in mind in a thread like t... | |
| Should we care if a piece of equipment comes from a pet-free, kid-free, smoke-free home? @immatthewj Those two hacks never wrote anything even close to as good as The Art Of The Deal. Yeah, that guy Schwartz can really write. | |
| MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY? @lewm @jhnnrrs I have two of the higher end cartridges, a diamond Koetsu and a Grado Epoch. The Koetsu at 1510 hours (minimal stylus wear at 1000 hours by photomicrograph) is exceptional in its smoothness, quietness, resolution, sweetness, and m... | |
| Anyone ever have, use or hear this tube? Don't know about the 12A family, but I did a bit of rolling when I had an ARC SP10. Very good were Telefunken 6902, but standard T 6902 were almost poor beside the Telefunken 6902 specially selected by HP. They came with both T and HP seals. Rumo... | |
| The Absolute Sound posts a video about a new product development from Magnepan, but... Ditto about improving Magnepan crossovers. M also makes bass panels, the DWM, which are a magnetic push-pull design just like their other bass panels. I'm using two to complement my four Quad ESL's, and they sound pretty good - so I'm building a ... | |
| Turntable prices. Is my mind going? @tony1954 There are many sources and types of distortion. Some forms of distortion are irritating to some people. For example, I can't stand the 'sizzle' that comes from some digital and most electrolytic caps in the signal path. Some other people... | |
| Turntable prices. Is my mind going? I'm going to come to the rescue of a few of the ideologues here. Rule of thumb: if you can't find the engineering mistake, don't criticize it until you hear it. | |
| if you had this system, what would you do to make it sound the best you can I bought new Quad ESL's 15 years ago - and I'm keeping them. The 29 series is very smooth and elegant, and build quality is high. The 28 series is brighter, too bright for my taste. YMMV | |
| Turntable prices. Is my mind going? Better yet, build one an enjoy it. DIY forever! | |
| Stylus stuck in groove. @pindac +1. Written by a high class expert in cleaning, who's generous to boot. We're lucky to have access to that level of expertise. | |
| Advice and recommendations needed for a turntable rig... Consider a used TT. Used heavy platter units from boutique suppliers can be very good value. See if you can find an old Nottingham Analogue table - so heavy that you have to push it up to speed by hand! But the sound is excellent, and not fatiguin... | |
| Comparison of sonic qualities of some tonearms This is why linear tracking tonearms are no advantage But this is not an agreed fact. Science proceeds by finding reasons for agreed facts; these reasons become models; and models make predictions, which are subject to test. You seem to be sta... | |
| Comparison of sonic qualities of some tonearms Back in the day, ’Big Bang’ was a derogatory name for the theory that eventually came to dislodge ’Steady State’. Perhaps it’s time for the pendulum to swing back. | |
| Comparison of sonic qualities of some tonearms Now consider that, at the time of the Big Bang, the entire cosmos was in a quantum state. When the Big Bang is observed, say with a radio telescope, it is changed by the observer (Copenhagen). What is the nature of this change? One can only suppos... | |
| Comparison of sonic qualities of some tonearms Typo, sorry. |