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Direct Drive vs. Idler Drive vs. Belt drive
Some more if you please... 😉 The fact that the housing of the new Burmester 175 record player “builds so high” has, of course, also very practical reasons, after all, the developers packed in some key features. Above all, four motors, which, acco... 
Direct Drive vs. Idler Drive vs. Belt drive
Some more detail on the Burmester 175."The drive is not only equipped with its own tonearm and MC system, but also with a first-class phono equalizer, which is even supposed to keep the legendary stand-alone component Burmester 100 at bay in some ... 
Directionality Explained
Just follow the ARROWS, puleeese sen ser will be all fine mit bjutiful sound set vil follow, ja. All se gefetsch vil do nosing! Also dann jetzt just follow se arrow on the verflixte Draht bitt schön. Danke und auf wiedersehen bis später, M. 🇿🇦 👋 
Upgrading the stock cartridge on Macintosh’s MT5 turntable
Running the risk to get some flak saying that this arm-cartridge resonance it for many applications somewhat overstated...It took me some time to come to this conclusion. My best guess though would be that your tt's arm, being only some 7 odd year... 
Class D is just Dandy!
My last 'high end' experience was to save power used by my PaasLabs X350.5 and so I had a test in my system with Mola Mola monos (jolly expensive!). Double the price (then) of my Pass and sounding, 🤔 weird, flat, punchy with funny enough, NO real ... 
How do you share the sweet spot?
If a lot of such sharing is very often needed - go for surround sound and all be happy, no? 😊 M. 😌  
Wich is better
Hm, how about the one that sounds better - for the less $$$$ ? 🤔 💐 Is what I normally do... 😉 M.  
Directionality Explained
@cakyolAhhhh, wat was se kwestschen... witsch is se best derekschen to wat? Was olreddy answad, no? Eh, follo se Pfeil, mensch! 😉  
Matching fully balanced with unbalanced.
Not sure the science of your question was not answered already...? If *balanced* is 'pseudo balanced' i.e. achieved by opamp implementation as compared to 'fully balanced' implemented by two seperate strands of amplification within one source unit... 
Matching fully balanced with unbalanced.
In my experience only listening will really tell, as it also depends *how* the balanced is IMPLEMENTED in the source equipment(s). This unless some very long IC connections will be the case and RF issues adding to the mix. With my equipment (all M... 
How often to demagnetize mc cartridges?
Demagnetise MCs?!? 🤔 Ah... never! Ever. 😱 😲M. 😌 
Anyone with tinnitus or hearing loss who is into "high-end" audio?
Well, same here but thankfully I also can still hear quite well to about 11kHz.And I am quite aware if some mostly CD recordings are unpleasantly 'ear-flossing'. Though it's helpful to hear of the existence of more folks in audio persuits saddled ... 
How to contact Audiogon Support
@yogiboy, A valid question, what happened is that my posts in some on-off fashion got simply wiped out. Yet I could start this ’emergency’ thread and had one post after which nothing could be posted here or anywhere else any more. Sounds like the ... 
How to contact Audiogon Support
Just my thanks to all your helpful suggestions send via PM. I can only hope this will not easily happen again. So many thanks again, Michélle  
How to contact Audiogon Support
Will 'Support' be supporting me?