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I have an anal fantasy of a full silver path from the cart to the grid of the input stage.This brings me to finding an ambitious silver wound SUT. There is Slagle who can make it,but I'm inclined towards amorphous/nanocrystaline core, so there is Lun...
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Is this not similar to gas mileage? In Germany, we have busses running on fuel cells. Is that optimum transportation? Well it depends. A Mercedes Benz E-Class automobile gets better diesel mileage than their much smaller B-Class with the same sized e...
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Fucking soundcard...I knew I should rather buy myself a good bottle of wine if I cannot afford a real equipment, but I got seduced by the "simplicity" of mesurements and price...well, I got what I paid for: ~16k input impedance of my Fuck-blaster X-f...
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I just turned up the original paperwork while looking for the original packaging, in which I planned to return the cartridge to DK. The original packing slip was dated 27 July, 2002; rather more than the 8 years I "remembered". Which makes me wond...
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No one else posted this, so I'll take one for the Team by mentioning Fremer's May 2012 Analog Corner article in Stereophile. Apparently, Fremer has gotten at least two high-dollar Lyra cartridges with indifferent stylus-to-cantilever mounting. I co...
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Ok Romy thanks for advice. I will see about the loading for my shelter, and my cable to the step-up is nothing special. I am going to listen to mono only for next few weeks and see if i find the "same character of sound everywhere" syndrome! I do h...
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N-set, if you have an unused circuit in the apt., then its neutral may be an acceptable ground path (neutral stays "on" even when breaker is "off"...).Re, the phono calibration, I have expounded the SRA at length in the "Vinyl Ceremonies" thread. As ...
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Hello,May I have your comment for my diy LCR phono sound. Thanks.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwO6Uc-oOqg Bee Gees Greatest (3 songs)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYjRayM78FM We Are The Worldhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9Jvvockz38 The Beatl...
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... ooops... troubles with multiple pictures posting... apologize.
Using a link with very same pixes... http://twogoodears.blogspot.com/2009/10/thomas-mayer-and-we-437alcr-phono.htmlandhttp://twogoodears.blogspot.com/2009/09/extraterrestrial-l...
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Paul,As you know I am also a believer in the hard tracing, and have likewise consistently rejected all MC cartridges due to the lack of realism and their inability to penetrate beyond the most superficial layers of audio splendor, though these they d...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I think that you did not exactly my version but made some modifications; I do not know/remember what they were. [/quote]CCS heating of the tubes based on LT337A, 2x0.47u+470K at the output,my filtering is a bit bulkier at ...
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Thanks, Paul.
I never saw this company. I did call today to the guy who run it and had longer conversation with him then I intended. Size and shape wise it was exactly what I was looking for. Unfortunately he does not do matching transformer b...
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When the AC and the recording are good, the K&K tracks big choruses and piano fortisimos cleanly, as well, the first time in my hi-fi experience I have had a phono stage that can do this. The trouble with the really big stuff is that i...
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Rick, as I have chronicled at GSC, I have used a dedicated ground for my phono for many years. The Ticket seems to be to keep amp ground wires lifted, and in your case you would connect just the inverter ground wire to the dedicated ground line, and ...
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One thing I have noticed a lot with gear that "aspires" is a ""rubber band" harmonic effect, with +/- higher or lower harmonics in preponderance as the dynamics/complexity changes. There is also the effect where the [am...
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Go figure, but today I got to enjoy my rebuilt phono cartridge for several hours, once the system got up to cruise temperature. The sound's been better, but not for a L-O-N-G time, and I have no idea what "worked" this time, what might be different ...
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By the time I realized (last year) that I'd kissed off 2016 a year early, it was too late to edit/correct my mistake. Ironically, 2016 has been an "off year" for me, in terms of hi-fi, so, in fact, I've little to reprise for this year. I have poked ...
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Robin, this is The Dream, is it not? How Nice, and If Only. I remember when Romy was deciding on a phono cartridge, and I was getting very strongly that he did not really want a "hard tracing" cartridge, because he really did not want to have to re-s...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] rowuk wrote: A preamplifier shall be modular - the ability to insert
n quantity (maybe 20?) of input cards on a backplane (for phono MC/phono
MM/line level/Balanced/Single ended/TOSLink) as well as be configured for
mul...
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Hi Romy,Due in part to your enthusiasm for the older 78 rpm recordings and in part to my own curiosity I have decided to add the facility to play these to my system. It also helps that an old aunt has given me a large quantity of classical recordings...
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Thanks, Gregm.
My primary concern with all those IC-based phonostages is that they are thin like hell. The audio freaks like it, I do not. I never heard the DACT CT-100 and can not speculate. I have seen this one:
http://www.goodsoundclub.com/PDF/D...
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It is not about the LCR phono as a concept – many companies manufacture the RIAA LCR constant impedance networks: Lundahl, Tango, S&B, Da Vinci, A-D, your Allnic looks like dose them as well. The LCR filter is not complex and any manufacturing ho...
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Perhaps I should have mentioned before that the K&K is another spin-off of the well-received Arthur Loesch RIAA network. Also, the K&K's gain scheme is based on "classic" microphone circuits. While I am not say...
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N-set, clearly you have a much better understanding of electrical engineering than I do (as do most of my pets...)! Still, I am hardly terrified by tank circuits, just wary of inter-component/PS/signal mosh. And I really don't care what sort of div...
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Interesting point of view Romy. I have been exploring what I think is the same phenomena with the silly Ground Control devices. Certainly the changes brought about can only be happening on the "dark side" of the notes, since the devices are connected...
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The way it is described, I have to agree about taking the Pure Power to a trusted local repair shop to get it scoped out.I will just say again that repairing the Pure Power seems to fix the problems, for those who have been able to get their unit bac...
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Well, I know that you know that the B2's imaging capability is the last thing the amp will tell you. Back when heard the Sony Esprit amps my own expectations about imaging were not very developed. The bass was from 515s in bins as I recall, and, th...
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The first goal is the best sound possible, taking every advantage to get it. Since the [crappy] [wall] power source is such a big factor in the sound we get from hi-fi, I could see designing line-level stages for use with batteries as a possible...
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Bud, thanks for saying well what I have been trying to say (poorly) for years. This plus "corona discharge" effects from large parts, especially, can make it very difficult to quiet, say, a phono stage that is full of large parts, especially transfo...
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Ric, I sheepishly admit that at this point I remain entranced with the idea of a Class A behemoth. Probably my suicidal tendencies at work... Think of the last big tower that Tesla was working on when he died; now match current to voltage... Before ...
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