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| Develop a hierarchy for phono playback "No matter how good any of the other front end components are, they will sound lousy if the cartridge is not quietly, solidly in the groove." And what component is in charge of keeping the cartridge in the groove? The tonearm, of course. "and las... | |
| DIN Phono Cable Yes, of course, I was merely trying to explain to Jose what Maxson was getting at. Of course there may be no need for a right angle DIN with Jose's TT, just as it isn't with yours. The point was that Jose' did not get the point. | |
| DIN Phono Cable "The cable will come straight down from the tonearm connection." But where does the cable have to go next? Presumably the TT sits on a shelf, so the cable will have to bend at a 90 degree angle in order not to foul the surface of the shelf on it... | |
| Develop a hierarchy for phono playback ..."the cat amongst the pigeons." That's a good one. Especially since a cat will often ignore larger birds. We say "setting the fox to guard the hen house". But what is it you wish to convey about the Bedrok [sic] plinth? | |
| Technics SL-1300G Turntable issues Matt, Have you ever heard of the SP10, produced in the early 70s, or the SP10 Mk2 or Mk3 (earliy 80s)? In their day, those were among the best direct drive turntables available, maybe THE best so far as the US market was concerned, because competi... | |
| DIN Phono Cable Elliot, I don't know what brand it is but the black phono IC in one of your photos bears a male DIN connector, rather than the more typical female version. Female is more typical because nearly all tonearms that accept DIN provide a male receptac... | |
| Develop a hierarchy for phono playback I withdraw the word “worthless “. | |
| DIN Phono Cable IMO, Cardas make the nicest DIN connectors. Used on the better cables. | |
| Ortofon carts are too hot for my phono preamp? Seems I followed up my own post on the overload phenomenon, yet somehow it fails to appear here. Probably my fault for not clicking the green button. Anyway, I did some further reading on the phono overload phenomenon. Seems it is a complex subj... | |
| Develop a hierarchy for phono playback "I would like everyone to go back and carefully re-read ghdprentice's post. I think his logic is excellent and could form the basis for consensus. Thoughts?" Many thoughts are already out there, and I have not changed my opinion that assigning ... | |
| Ortofon carts are too hot for my phono preamp? This review at HFN says the Avid has an overload margin at MM inputs of 46mV. https://avidhifi.com/storage/uploads/cms/pdf/85/6345755481a21/2012%20HIFI%20NEWS%20PULSUS.pdf It’s not obvious to me that the phono stage per se is responsible for the... | |
| Develop a hierarchy for phono playback I hate this sort of thread, but I am bored. So, tonearm, phono stage, cartridge, wires cartridge to phono only, other ICs last. Why I hate this sort of thread: Any item in the chain can screw up the whole deal. My ranking assumes each item is at... | |
| Ortofon carts are too hot for my phono preamp? Bill, Not a good idea because of capacitance. Capacitance will cause a HF roll off probably before you notice a loss of gain. That’s throwing the baby out with the bathwater. "I just set inputs on the preamp to 2.8v - up from 2.0." What does th... | |
| Ortofon carts are too hot for my phono preamp? The Ortofon Black produces 5mV at a stylus velocity of 5 cm/sec. The Avid Pulsus phono stage provides 48db gain on its MM inputs. 48db gain is roughly a 250X voltage gain. So the output of the Pulsus would be about 1.25V. That per se is not goi... | |
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