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| ZYX cartridges I gotta say that "back in the day" I heard many a B&O cartridge and was underwhelmed, tho I'm not certain that I ever have heard the specific model that Raul mentions. The ones I did hear cast a flattering sheen on the sound and made everythin... | |
| ZYX cartridges Dear Sirspeedy, Why not just enjoy the fabulous cartridge you already own? Just because there is a "newer" version does not necessarily mean it's a better version. Did Piedpiper say it was lower in output? That makes it all the more problematic fo... | |
| ZYX cartridges thanks, Raul. But I have searched the internet on several occasions for the MMs that you have found to be so excellent, and I have yet to find any of them for sale anywhere. If you can help me find one, I'd give it a listen. I do indeed have an MP... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Well, we're using the Lenco chassis, and most of us are not using the Lenco tonearm and plinth, so it's not really a fair comparison to the WTR. But by any standards, the WTR w/tonearm is very difficult to work with if one wants to change cartridg... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II I suppose I'll get slammed for writing this, but I have had a lot of exposure for the last 10 years to my friend's Well Tempered Reference table and arm, and I find nothing there to yearn for. The sound is invariably overdamped and unexciting. And... | |
| ZYX cartridges Thanks, Doug, for your usual thorough and knowledgeable comment. It was your praise of the Triplanar cum UNIverse that got me started thinking about ZYX, since I use a Triplanar, too. From what I've read at the Sorasound site and above, it would a... | |
| ZYX cartridges Redtop, I now see your problem. You have been listening to "ZXY" cartridges and comparing them to the Shure V15. Everyone knows that those ZXY products are not so good. Here we are talking about the ZYX product line, any of which should blow away ... | |
| ZYX cartridges I don't think you guys appreciate Redtop's great sense of humor. Very funny, RT.I was hoping for some descriptions of the many different variants of the Airy 2 and Airy 3, why they are different, how the structural differences effect sonics, etc, ... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Jean, Are you talking about the distal end of the idler arm, where it attaches to the chassis, originally with rubber washers on either side of the nut/bolt that hold it to the chassis? Ugghh, I'll have to remove the chassis from the plinth to do ... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Jean, As you fade off into the sunset, did I hear you intimate that you are building/have built a plinth for an SP10? While I am no lover of the Heil tweeter, I've had a longstanding curiosity re those big EV (and JBL) horn-loaded spkrs of the 50s... | |
| Triplanar RCA out to Balanced out for MP-1 Cousinbilly, I gather your Triplanar has the optional external junction box with the standard female RCA receptacles. This allows you (or forces you) to use additional phono cables from the junction box to the preamp. Since you have decided to sen... | |
| Ultimate Idler Drive Robyatt, I did go to their website and I did see that the prices of the products are in the gulp domain. However, I am not one to denigrate a piece of gear just because it costs a great deal of money. In fact, having read up on the rationale for t... | |
| Ultimate Idler Drive Can Stealth wire be bought as naked product, or is one forced to buy them as made-up ICs? Guess I should do my own research on that. | |
| Triplanar RCA out to Balanced out for MP-1 Dear Thom, I've been thinking that your scheme #1 for hookup is the way you'd do it if a cartridge really had a hot and ground side, i.e., the way to do it if you were to hookup a single-ended CD player to a balanced input preamp. Scheme #2 is the... | |
| Triplanar RCA out to Balanced out for MP-1 Raul is correct. I would just add that the wire going to the "ground" side of the RCA plug is the one that should be soldered to pin3. Pin 2 gets the "hot" wire. You can do it yourself, but since Tri is colleagial with Atma-sphere, I am sure he wo... |