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I've noticed for a while now that my phono stage sounds less "splashy" since I swapped in the V-Caps, and the truth is, I kind of miss the splash, as it carried through to tonal colors, and it was low enough that it mostly made the Music "more colorf...
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Chris, I'm not Romy but I've listened to some of their products -- about which I'll talk later. First:[quote user="dazzdax"]Hi Roman, FM Acoustics amplifiers from Switserland have been regarded by many audiophiles (mostly the ones with lots of money)...
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Hi, I am new here and would like to say hi.I am a owner of an ET SU-1 and would like to know what phono stage would go best with it. Would a Lamm LP2 be a good match?Will be using a Dynavector XV1s with it. Thanks in advance...
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Hello all i must have missed the subject line with pp2000 noise i have not noticed any hiss at all from all inputs except my phono amp. Whats the problem and fix?ThanksMike...
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Ok, already, using as many words as you like.I at least need something for my phono stage that increases the number of days I can use it each month.If it's a real, "no-qualifiers" full-system solution I may have a siezure getting out my che...
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With my limited experience of using pentodes (primary as phono corrector first stage) I think that the most mysterious in them is power supply of bias to "other" grids. Looking at the Milq schematics it is obvious that I pay too much attention to th...
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The question in my mind Romy is: why? I will be interested to hear your comment on what your goal was to learn about your system in introducing these and what the results are. After the extent to which you have described the sound of your...
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[quote user="SOS "]I've tried even placing a cheater plug on the PP+ unit and still get the hum. Why can everything be plugged into another conditioner or everything into the wall and all is dead quite BUT plug either the phono stage and or the TT mo...
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It's polishing a turd though isn't it? I listened to the 834 quite a bit when it came out and thought it sounded poor, even for the price. imho, The circuit's just bad. If you do all that to it it isn't really an 834 anyway. I used to work for a valv...
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The positive feedback published a review by Marshall Nack of SP-102 Phono Stage: http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue69/vitus_sp102.htmIt is an interesting review despite that some of the Marshall’s comments do not makes sense at all. I did not he...
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Bob Graham of Graham Engineering can provide you with a silver wire transformer that sounds great to my ears. More accurately, I don't hear it detracting from my enjoyment. I use mine in conjunction with his silver wired phono cartridge s...
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The 834p is a tried and true circuit. It should be OK. If you have hum, I would suspect the step up transformers first and the power supply second. Maybe a ground lead is not attached?Take it completely out of the system, disconnect the phono leads, ...
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[quote user="Paul S"]Is there such a thing as partly unshielded arm wire? If you want that run shielded, don't you have to start at the cartridge connection? [/quote]Paul, the tonearm wire runs inside the metal armwands (EMT & SME), which in tur...
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Romy, why not get this guy's phono stage to try so we all can benefit from an unbiased opinion of its performance? Rgs,montepilot...
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You are right about the sound of YouTube.I recorded the sound directly from LCR phono through TASCAM DR-100 recorder (24 bit / 96 kHz) and added it into video then uploaded to YouTube....
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In the past there was such a concept of full-function preamplifiers that included MM and MC inputs. With time such devises die out and nowadays it is VERY difficult to find a full-function preamplifier generally and a good sounding full-function ...
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I recently could not pass up a good deal on a EAR 834P MM, so I will have the opportunity to compare it to my current phono stage. It is funny since I had planned to listen to EAR phono stage in my system about 10-15 years ago when I lived in Santa M...
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[quote user="hagtech"] Musta been a teenage thing. I never got around to experimentation with my own chemical formulas. [/quote]
Nope, it is nothing to do with teenage thing but rather a cultural thing. In Russia any more or less civiliz...
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The iDAT-44+ just got back from a visit with its dad, John Wright, to repair an intermittant fault and to work his current round of "upgrades" to the sound. Also, over the course of re-integrating the fixed and improved iDAT, I re-thought the way I ...
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It just was brought to my attention that Shelters released 2 new cartridges: 7000 and 9000. They claim for both: New design technology. Newly designed body, high rigidity, improved front-yoke, larger diameter PC-OCC lead wires wound around the redesi...
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Somebody today created at my site a link in the visitors section with a link to “Home of the Arthur Loesch Phono Preamp”. The link to them existed at my site for a while
http://www.goodsoundclub.com/Links.aspx?Q=Loesch
… but the ...
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Thank you very much for all the help/advise. I'm still to investigate the problem. The working hypothesis is that my phono has some GND routing problem. Will examine it with the scope and shortening method to see if that's the case.
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[quote user="twogoodears"] Yes Roman... I feel pretty like I entered a sort of "cul de sac", tube-wise... I contacted, few months ago, Western Electric USA and they told me that, at USD 750 ea. they have "plenty" of N.O.S. WE 437A... I've been ab...
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My exorcisms to eliminate 100Hz PP induced noise in the EndOfLife phono gave no results so far.
- I took GND from the PP socket and tried connecting it to various GND points I could access (the signal GND plane, input sockets GN...
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A private Project is finished.
Some record collectors and serious Listeners (RCA Living Stereo, Decca...) wanted the best Phonostage to...
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[quote user="Paul S"]Is he saying other (lesser) phono stages are class A/B? Better, perhaps, to claim "all SET gain path"? [/quote] What does it mean? Why any state of a phonstage would ever be entering anything then class A?[quote user="Paul S"]Lam...
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Hi Paul,WTF is probably the right question. The time has been the problem - in the past 2,5yrs Ive set up my own audio company and only recently came back to working on the front end of my system.I changed the concept and bought the FR64S arm togethe...
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Jarek, that really sucks! Are you sure no one in Japan might salvage this cartridge for you? Has Stitch not offered more sage advice?And what about your Super Deluxe Tribute SUT? Is there a way you might adapt it for use with something else? I re...
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Just tossing in as possibilities the old JAN GE 5751s. I had a pair of these that were very interesting, including excellent, very even sound density and truly great LF. The only tubes in my system now are the old, "New York" 6922s in my phono stage,...
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N-set, before you wrap the signal wires with PTFE tape, I should mention that I have had some PTFE "tubing" on hand for quite a while, for "tubular" shield spacing, if I ever actually do it. I should also point out that most decent shielded IC has s...
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