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In the Thread: The last phonocorrector: “End of Life" Phonostage

Post Subject: InterestingPosted by N-set on: 4/2/2013

A bit of search and it turns out that VPI and Simon York use something more sophisticated
than RCA on their tonearms: they use Lemo connectors...and immediately fuck everything up
by connecting it to their "RCA connection box", right next to the arm
Hahaha!!! Make a manicure and then cut the hand.
This raises the question: is the use of sophisticated
connector (Lemo) a pure marketing move for the arm to look more advanced and hi-tek than with
the trabant 30's RCA? Or there is there some sonic advantage if the phono accepts Lemo
(some small manufacturers seem to take the chance, e.g. http://www.mr-labs.com/facts.htm)
and they have to use RCA box because of it's idiotic hegemony?

Checking the Lemo metallurgy nothing fancy: standard beryllium bronze female - brass male, both with Cu-Ni-Au standard plating
(Russian is Ag over the same metalls) + some PEEK insulator (not as good as Teflon but much better than Russian bakelite).

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