mulveling
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| Volume levels Though I listen at louder levels - the few times I’ve found vinyl sounding dull and lacking punch, it could usually be blamed on phono stage and (in particular) its match to your chosen cartridge. If you’re running an MC cartridge into a budget p... | |
| Rogue Audio hard to resell, has it fallen out of favor ? Traditionally Rogue’s lower price-tier true tube amps & preamps have held relatively good value. Their Class D hybrids are tougher on resale, as is their TOTL gear. It’s just market demands at play. And if you take ASR seriously, then you sho... | |
| Synergy My opinion on cartridges will still be flaky because, unlike you, I am a flaky person. Everyone reading! Do not listen to my opinion on cartridges, listen to Raul and @lewm. They know what they are talking about. @mulveling and I will keep buyin... | |
| Hagerman Piccolo Zero: New transimpedance head amp Interesting. Thanks @intactaudio , think I’ll just make a JavaScript calculator where I can plug in different parameters including cable + input resistance. 1-2 ohms seems awful high for 1.2m of cable, even at these small gauges (~ 24 - 26 AWG?). ... | |
| What happens when the stylus tip wears out on a $12,000 cartridge? mulveling, Re your comment on why one cannot rebuild an MC, wouldn't there have to be an air gap between the moving coil and the magnet structures? Can't be hard wired from stylus to output, I don't think. @lewm sure the magnet & pole piec... | |
| Synergy I would do the Crimson which is reported to have more aggressive bass and punch with two poles. The Clearaudio Titanium is another cartridge I would like to try. @mijostyn That was my thought on the two going in, before hearing them. I liked ... | |
| Amp upgrade, speaker cables or both I've used various Tannoys over the years. I've found they all scale significantly with amplification - both quality AND power - though I must qualify this by stating that I listen loud. I'm not a 75dB listener. I've got a A23 (not currently in u... | |
| Gain and level controls on an amplifier-a good thing? I’ve tried bi-amping a few times now, and even with the SAME two stereo amps I end up with a nagging feeling it’s robbing some of the musical coherence. Always end up going back to a single stereo amp in those cases. That was with solid-state amps... | |
| What happens when the stylus tip wears out on a $12,000 cartridge? I’m no cartridge expert.... Is it even possible to build a MC cartridge with a removable stylus like MM’s? I’m guessing not or there would be plenty out there. I recentlu learned that early Ortofon Concordes were MC. Who knew Anything's possibl... | |
| Gain and level controls on an amplifier-a good thing? Good if you have a use case. Not good otherwise. Perfect answer here by @fuzztone | |
| Amp, Preamp, two volume pots, there can be only one! It’s not a serious mismatch per say, it just appears you’ve got a high gain tube preamp without the highest signal-to-noise ratio. Your Doge lists "200mV sensitivity" - if that is in reference to a 2V output, that’s 20dB gain which is very high. G... | |
| Synergy @rvpiano I can second tomic601's Benz Wood recommendation. Never bright or edgy, and never boring. Just nicely balanced and a bit sweet :) I started out in analog (years ago now) with a Benz Glider L2, and it kept the upgrade-itis at bay for two... | |
| Synergy " I always roll phono stages / arms / etc when trying to optimally match a new cartridge.. " Certainly I understand try to match the tonearm/cartridge combinations and even a SUT ( I did it in the past till I found out the top Denon SUT that I c... | |
| Herron HL-1 Preamplifier, Solid State; Herron still in business? Thoughts about sound? I too was surprised to see that listing - wasn’t aware Herron made a SS preamp. It seems it was a while ago, ~ 20 years. Price seems great, under 1K. However, looking at the inside - that’s a lot of ICs. Not that ICs can’t sound great, but it simp... | |
| Anybody use a 5687 tube inplace of a 6sn7? 5687 is a 9 pin I stand to be corrected I was referring to a 5692. and 10,000 hours for Any tube is not common or likely . a 6sn7 has a different Sonic characteristic ,for sure worth checking out especially matched NOS tubes. It’s crazy how t... |