dougdeacon
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| Headshell Washers : Nylon or Stainless Steel? Whether there's an audible difference will of course be system-dependent. FWIW, it's clearly audible in mine. Your system isn't listed so I couldn't guess whether it would be audible in yours.As to which is preferable, that's a matter of taste. In... | |
| Using Test LP - curious observations The last possibility that I can think of why the cartridge might sound better without AS is tonearm geometry set-up. We must use our protractors to set the HTA and VTA in a static situation. That means that while the cantilever is loaded in the ve... | |
| Balanced XLR to RCA Adapters: Good or Bad? Ebm wrote: Im using Cardas xlr to rca very good none is better.Compared to what? No one's in a position to state that "none is better" because no one's heard everything out there. I've also used the Cardas adaptors. Compared with my Doshi-built o... | |
| Balanced XLR to RCA Adapters: Good or Bad? True enough, Herman... For some reason I clicked on YOUR system and was responding with that in mind, which of course isn't relevant to the OP either. Pre-new year's lack of sobriety? | |
| Balanced XLR to RCA Adapters: Good or Bad? I WOULD take that bet, at least if I could do the comparison in my system. I know from experience that we'd hear the difference easily.I've used RCA/XLR adaptors. The commercially available ones all sounded like mud. My preamp designer then built ... | |
| Using Test LP - curious observations Moonglum,Good question:...you will no doubt have seen cantilevers bent like a bow due to skating force Actually, I have never seen a cantilever bent/angled due to SKATING forces and I doubt anyone else has either. Skating forces pull the stylus in... | |
| Pros and Cons of "Staying with" Analog and Vinyl I know the golden eared types can spend endless hours worried about minutia, ...Why describe what you hear and prefer in emotionally neutral terms while describing what others hear and prefer as "minutia" [sic] of concern only to "golden eared typ... | |
| Pros and Cons of "Staying with" Analog and Vinyl Others have covered most of the questions you have to decide. What music do you have in your record collection that you value and can't hear otherwise? If it's not much, consider transferring it to digital before bailing.If, OTOH, it's substantial... | |
| Using Test LP - curious observations SirAnthony,It isn't VPI tonearms in particular. I hear what Harry Weisfeld hears on my TriPlanar and on a Durand Talea. Audiofeil hears similar things on five of his six tonearms. It's partly cartridge-dependent and partly a matter of how well a c... | |
| Using Test LP - curious observations If it's such an objectively verifiable problem, why do some (and that's Harry Weisfeld included) don't hear any improvement with anti-skate applied? It's not that we don't hear any improvement. I do. It's just that we hear many more detriments tha... | |
| Using Test LP - curious observations I was surprised at how much my previous phono section added to the buzzing heard in bands 7-9.Nanbil, that makes perfect sense and is consistent with the observations made by Atmasphere and myself on this thread . The noise source being discussed ... | |
| Using Test LP - curious observations A degree of anti-skate is essential.Recordings such as soprano with piano accompaniment can be useful. The soprano is usually well centred and will produce sustained notes not dissimilar to a test tone. In this way you adjust against any "edginess... | |
| Using Test LP - curious observations With regard to (1), Audiofeil nailed it. Using an over-amplified test track makes no more sense than using its opposite, an ungrooved surface. Neither corresponds to real-world conditions. Adjust VTF and A/S by listening to real music. With regard... | |
| Optimizing TNT, Triplanar, Transfiguration Temper What do you mean by dress the free wires? For "dress", substitute, "arrange". Sorry for the lingo. ;) | |
| Latest new generation Lyra Jonathan, You might have offered the boxes for Christmas, including a coupon for a cartridge to follow on availability. There would have been some happy/excited/insane audiophiles on Christmas morning. ;)Best of luck with the new baby,Doug |