wrm57
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| thread for PMC owners I’ve owned IB2i for nearly five years and think they’re excellent--but to get the most out of them, you really have to replace the binding posts. The stock posts have no place on a speaker of this quality and expense, IMO. Not only do they appear ... | |
| Would you use an Ortofon A90 on a Jelco tonearm? Soundsmith does offer an A90 retip using what Peter told me is the Ortofon Replicant 100 stylus. He has them in stock. It is a stylus-only retip, affixing the diamond to the original A90 cantilever. Peter does it personally. I don't recall the cos... | |
| I'm considering replacing my passive preamp with a tubes. Is it worth it? @milpai Sorry for the delay in responding. I just noticed your post. First, I've never owned a Music First, only listened to a friend's in my system. I did not mean to imply that anything was lost in moving from the MF to the Vac. Rather, as I rec... | |
| When is it time to consider adding a SUT? The LPS is not really a great candidate for an SUT because of its 38-ohm internal resistance (DCR). At .36 mV, you’d likely want to use a 1:15 SUT, which would present an impedance of 209 ohms to the cartridge. That’s pretty low, when you think ru... | |
| Bad vinyl I return many LPs for noise and warps. | |
| Alternatives to Psvane KT-88's ? BTW, I just swapped in two new quads of the PS KT88 a couple weeks ago. The old quads were trouble-free for around 2,500 hours, then developed a bit of a hum in a couple of tubes. No bias issues, just a hum. The other six still sounded good and bi... | |
| Alternatives to Psvane KT-88's ? mid40sguy, I like ’em well enough to have bought eight quads, just in case. Yes, I’m a little nuts. I sourced my GLs from Jim, too. I should add that I'm not dissing this tube. There's a lot to like in it, and I'm clearly an outlier in my opinion.... | |
| Alternatives to Psvane KT-88's ? I really like the Preferred Series KT88 from The Tube Store, in Canada, in my VAC 300.1a. These are identical to Shugang KT88SC, like the original stock tubes (which VAC stopped being able to source, I was told by Brent) but are far more dependabl... | |
| I'm considering replacing my passive preamp with a tubes. Is it worth it? I have a Bent Audio AVC passive and a VAC Phi Beta tube preamp in my rack, along with a high input gain tube amp (VAC) and SS amp (Plinius). The Bent sounds great with both amps but I always go back to the tube preamp for the bigger, more solid so... | |
| Rega Owners - Alignment Tool / Protractor Hi Brad,I think Wally is out of business, though I might be wrong. Some years back he became undependable in delivering product, according to threads that appeared here and elsewhere, and I've heard nothing about him in quite a while. I bought pro... | |
| Rega Owners - Alignment Tool / Protractor I have MintLps and Wallytractors for several tonearms and prefer the Wallys, finding their inscription on mirrors to be superior for parallax offset and their super-fine lines on the surface of the protractor (rather than under a layer of glass) t... | |
| The Palladian-A step beyond Looks very interesting. And any cartridge that tags itself with that Blake Proverb of Hell automatically has my vote and maybe my money. After all, as the man also says, "Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid courted by incapacity." | |
| What is Technics thinking? I want to bump this thread to see if anyone has an update on the SL-1200G. Is it available yet in the U.S.? Any online sources? | |
| Record weights My current favorite is the Oyaide STB-MS, which allows you to vary mass from 200g to 440g in increments of 40g. I stay light at 200g on my Lenco, in part out of concern for its bearing, and in part because too much mass can damp dynamics on that t... | |
| How Do Left & Right Brains Like AT ART9 vs Dynavectors 17D3, XX2, XX2mkII vs Ortofons Tom, thanks for the link. This approach to adjusting azimuth looks excellent, though my Fozgometer probably gets me pretty close.A frontal look via microscope at my ART9 shows (or seems to show) the stylus mounted off-axis slightly. This may accou... |