oldrooney
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| From whence does Sound Stage come? @vonhelmholtz and @knotscott Thank you both for your insight and encouragement. I’m just starting to dial my rooms in. I was a bit despondent after putting out the effort to maximize the power available to each speaker. I’m not sure what I was... | |
| From whence does Sound Stage come? @edisoncarter Point taken. My friend in whose house I first heard a decent sound stage tells me I need to use better sources. Thanks for the response. | |
| From whence does Sound Stage come? @rodman99999 After thinking 💭 over your response and pondering the content you referenced, the answer to the original question, ‘From whence comes Sound Stage?’ The answer might well be, ‘from inside your head’ (not yours of course, but mine, or a... | |
| From whence does Sound Stage come? I might also add that I have limited test equipment available: a frequency generator and analog oscilloscope, the DATS V3 Audio Test System for component testing, and a miniDSP UMIK-1 microphone, boom mike holder, and the free-to-download Room Equ... | |
| From whence does Sound Stage come? @rodman99999 Thank you very much for the links to the AudioCheck site and the Chesky CD. I shall follow up on them. I started with the ‘More’ articles, first I’ve heard of LEDR phenomenon and testing method. I noticed in my reading of the article ... | |
| Weak Link in Vinyl Playback The PS Audio and Elac phono stages include potentiometers to adjust the impedance loading. I don’t know of any with a similar capacitive loading scheme although it is certainly possible to design one that way with screws to vary the separation of... | |
| Weak Link in Vinyl Playback @owl9113 Seems to me that you’re getting the most out of your current setup; save an expert cartridge setup, I don’t think you’ve left any stone unturned. If your table has no way of adjusting the vertical tracking angle, or ‘rake,’ there isn’t mu... | |
| Weak Link in Vinyl Playback @nlitworld I like the ‘Tonearm VTA & Cartridge Azimuth Alignment Ruler Headshell Alignment Block’ you linked. Prime Day (July 11-12) is coming up, I think I might be adding a tool to my chest. | |
| Weak Link in Vinyl Playback @owl9113 I’m just going by the manufacturer’s specifications for your cartridge, AT-VM95ML which is not that much different than the Shibata-tipped model (except it is a lot cheaper). The impedance loading at the phono stage should be 47 kilOhms a... | |
| Weak Link in Vinyl Playback I’ll go along with Herb on this one, you will pick up 12 dB with the Freya’s tube’s gain of 4, and 14dB if you go the Lisst tube replacement’s gain of 5. Edit: Your cartridge and phono stage appear to be adequately matched. | |
| Weak Link in Vinyl Playback @owl9113 Another thing I noticed while I was on the Crutchfield site was that your particular cartridge was specified for S-shaped tonearms ONLY. It has a fancy Shibata shaped stylus that evidently requires the S-shaped tonearm install. If your tu... | |
| Weak Link in Vinyl Playback @owl9113 In case I misunderstood your question, the ‘devices’ I used to setup my cartridge on the Numark table included the Riverstone Audio Record-Level Turntable Stylus Vertical Tracking Force Gauge (a very handy item), a full-size protractor in... | |
| Weak Link in Vinyl Playback @owl9113 In answer to your question, I purchased a used McIntosh MC100, a two-piece 50th anniversary edition 2-piece (circa 1992) preamp for which I probably paid too much. It has both a Moving Magnet and Moving Coil input. The MC input features a... | |
| Weak Link in Vinyl Playback @atmasphere Thanks for posting the link to the Hagermann discussion, good information. @elliottbnewcombjr Very helpful and to-the-point. @owl9113 Great thread you’ve got going here. I think both responders are offering helpful suggestions. I’v... | |
| Rumble showed up on NEW record??? To wrap this thread up, @noromance I found there wasn’t a problem money couldn’t solve. I bought a Pangea Vulcan turntable stand from Audio Advice. It arrived two days later, assembled easily, and seems quite stable. Added a 2nd shelf for storing ... |