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| Good turntables w/o record clamps Dcstep, Then you would agree with my inference that the decision to use a clamp will be in part determined by the nature of the record mat (or the absence of one in your case).More controversial to me is the advent of ring clamps used to hold LPs ... | |
| Good turntables w/o record clamps Pawlowski, A clamp could (in theory) transmit bearing and/or motor noise into the record, causing smearing of the audio signal. Obviously, warped records might benefit from the use of a clamp. However, I own a Sota reflex clamp which is/was touted... | |
| Good turntables w/o record clamps The clamp is kind of a "tweak". As with all tweaks, there will be some who swear by it and some who hate it or are indifferent to its use. So, in the end with any table, it will be a matter of your own opinion based on your own listening. Having s... | |
| Stand out phono stages Banpuku, Maybe you ought to re-evaluate the other preamps with a 10K load on your cartridge. Perhaps it is the cartridge that is working optimally into the Lyra piece but not so well with the 100-ohm load afforded by the other gear you tested.Alth... | |
| Aesthetix Io Sig vs Manley Steelhead-opinions pls I think I do know what you mean; it's one thing that vinyl definitely does "better" than digital, in that the silence on vinyl sounds more real (to me, anyway). | |
| An Audiophile Goal Picking up on what others have said, and I hope adding to it, instead of driving yourself nuts trying to "equalize" your room, there is a fairly reasonable path to your goal, costwise, using digital equalizers. Several of these have been reviewed ... | |
| Aesthetix Io Sig vs Manley Steelhead-opinions pls It so happens that on the wall of my office, I have a Chinese letter painting that depicts the Chinese name bestowed upon me by my friend who created it, in black inkbrush. The white background is printer paper from Staples. Wonder how THAT sounds... | |
| Denon DL103R with Shindo Monbrison BTW,if the combo is not a good one in stock configuration, it is probable that a little soldering of a few resistors and maybe a v small cap will make the match work fine. SUTs, like all other transformers, do not have an intrinsic impedance; they... | |
| Aesthetix Io Sig vs Manley Steelhead-opinions pls Dear Exlibris,Oy! I think you've been sipping the same suspect brew that used to affect HP's conceptual powers in strange ways. But, I got it (I think). | |
| Nottingham Owners: Motor Question It's meant to be left on all the time. I never gave it any further thought. After 6-7 years it has not harmed the motor one bit, using a Walker Audio PMC. | |
| Aesthetix Io Sig vs Manley Steelhead-opinions pls I have an older (very much older) MP1 that I purchased used and in virtually non-functional condition. Therefore after purchase I was forced into DIY mode, both to fix it and to update it to what were then Mk II specs. This took more than a year's... | |
| Aesthetix Io Sig vs Manley Steelhead-opinions pls Exlibris, As a fellow owner of the Atma-sphere MP1, I am curious to know what you might not like about it that causes you to want to change to the (very much more expensive) 6-box Aesthetics, fine as the latter preamp may be. Or is it the eternal ... | |
| Triplanar VII tonearm & Koetsu Jade Platinum cart. Guess I'll just limp along with what I've got, which sounds wonderful to me. Possibly the Jade has a higher weight than does the Urushi, which might compound any problems related to matching with the Triplanar. I will try out Doug's suggestions on... | |
| Triplanar VII tonearm & Koetsu Jade Platinum cart. I must interject that I own a Wheaton Triplanar with a Koetsu Urushi. I tried implementing some of Doug's suggestions. I did not remove the anti-skate weight entirely, but I mounted it as close as possible to the shaft, so that it exerted minimal ... | |
| Stand out phono stages Essential, Are you quoting the phono gain of the Boulder or its true S/N ratio? 46db S/N sounds impossibly bad for any commercial product, let alone one that costs as much as the Boulder. |