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Well, the Ultimate Turntable. I had the chance to listen to some personally. Most have one in common:Overrated and hyped from deaf "reviewers"And .... price tag has no direct comparison to sonic excellence ... or a lot of technical features which are...
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Hi Rowuk,Thanks for reply, I use step up transformers, old Partridge 1:12 I think they are model 973B if memory serves me correctly. I haven't installed the ART7 yet. I currently use another AT cartridge - 33ptg ii which is a more "normal" output of ...
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The Sussurro has an unusually wide loading range listed by Soundsmith, ranging from 470 ohms to 5k ohms. It is possible that more recent models have a somewhat tighter range between 470 and 2k ohms but I am not positive. The capacitance of Soundsmith...
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I recorded the output of my cartridge/ phono stage/ line stage with the stylus resting in a groove of a stationary record while playing a CD at high volume with heavy bass through another path. Since my system uses tubes I was also getting tube micro...
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[quote user="Paul S"]Meanwhile: If you are going to use a SUT, this actually is a Big Deal that will profoundly affect the Sound you get from your system, regardless of which connectors or solder you use. I recommend you integrate the SUT (with its ...
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I heard this TT, it was magnificent, almost no coloration to speak of, dead dead quiet. Of course it wasn't plugged in and there was no tonearm or cartridge yet but man I loved the sound! Really whatnthe hell is everyone screaming about ? Romy mentio...
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Good day, asking experts if it's worth mounting a Shelter 901 on a SME 309 arm. Resonance frequency shuld get upto to 12.86hz (being 17.6gr arm+cartridge and 9cu Shelter's compliance) which guess too high. Any guideline ? Many tks for advise. Cia...
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Hello Romy and thank you for a fast replyYou are absolutely correct, but it's the question of money, which I don't have a lot of. Like we say in Russia - "Bednost ne porok, no bolshoe svinstvo" :-) So when I saw this one for $1000 (new Shelters are s...
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N-set, the usual way of dialing in RIAA is the anti-RIAA curve, trying for null. This might be from any source with appropriate output voltage/impedance fed to the corrector input. The obvious problem with the LP is that it depends on the arm and c...
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Hi. I acquired and spent a lot of time on this guy over the last few months. I've installed a Dynavector 507 MK II tonearm and a Dyhavector XVS-1 cartridge. I read Romy's comments that in his experience with the 8000 the belt doesn't affect the sou...
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I have recently received two CDs from a friend who owns a SME turntable, has been using a Van den Hul Colibrí cartridge, and for fun purposes, set up a DL-103 on it (which I own but still have to set up). I have been listening to both recordings, pla...
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[quote user="starboy"]I guess the infamous JerryS didn't like the 90x that much... Hope the rave review he gave up helps to get his asking price. [/quote]The more fascinating observation you would be able to make if you pay attention t...
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And do not forget to load the shell of the Series 2 with a LOT of mass. The idiots-reviewers were writing in thier articles that the Grado Statement needs, as any other MI cartridge, a low to medium affective mass tonearms. In reality the whore-revie...
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Hi Romy,Due in part to your enthusiasm for the older 78 rpm recordings and in part to my own curiosity I have decided to add the facility to play these to my system. It also helps that an old aunt has given me a large quantity of classical recordings...
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How would you go about this?If the platter was massive you would need some very strong magnets?Therefore the platter would have to be quite deep so the magnets fields did not interfere with the cartridge. Would you manufacture the platter out of non-...
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I will say again it is important to speak from experience, not conjecture. The cartridges hand made by Yoshi Sugano were exquisite and the Rosewood Pro 4 accomplishes things that no other cartridge I have heard could do. It had shortcomings admitted...
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Recently, I have become aware of a strange phenomenon after lifting the tonearm at the end of the run-out groooves. The record surface noise keeps going when the stylus is no longer in contact with the record. I am using a Garrard 301 with SME 3...
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Romy, you have said you are impatient with VTA, so I wonder if you have wondered enough to try playing with this just a little, to hear for yourself if the added clarity of the corrector includes VTA differences and/or if VTA has anything to do ...
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I have a lot of respect for several TT designs, including the Micro 8000, for example; but I am very suspicious of this particular TT. The reason is that this TT appears to be more of an intellectual exercise than a "best solution" for the greater pr...
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I'm precisely fighting with dialing-in the RIAA....I tried to follow (parts of) Romy's description earlier in the thread, but the anti-RIAA method and test LP give me a huge difference, much bigger than 0.2dB (rather 10dB or so):what was +/- flat usi...
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Ok Romy thanks for advice. I will see about the loading for my shelter, and my cable to the step-up is nothing special. I am going to listen to mono only for next few weeks and see if i find the "same character of sound everywhere" syndrome! I do h...
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Paul,As you know I am also a believer in the hard tracing, and have likewise consistently rejected all MC cartridges due to the lack of realism and their inability to penetrate beyond the most superficial layers of audio splendor, though these they d...
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[quote user="Mabutu"]youd be amazed at the garbage that can make it into modern vinyl, especially recycled Vinyl. Disc flatteners can work , Furutech has one at nose bleed prices as does Air Tight http://www.axissaudio.com/special/DFO1U.htm . The fu...
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This appears to put the internal values of its gain stages into play, which in turn appears to cut the signal path parts count, all right. Since we are not given the (presumed "dedicated") cartridge H, did anyone run reverse numbers to see if this p...
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Thanks, Paul.
I never saw this company. I did call today to the guy who run it and had longer conversation with him then I intended. Size and shape wise it was exactly what I was looking for. Unfortunately he does not do matching transformer b...
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Go figure, but today I got to enjoy my rebuilt phono cartridge for several hours, once the system got up to cruise temperature. The sound's been better, but not for a L-O-N-G time, and I have no idea what "worked" this time, what might be different ...
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Today I OCD'd my way through every freaking connection in my system, cleaning all connectors, daubing them with dielectric grease and re-connecting them. Included were electrical plugs, RCA jacks and plugs, tube pins and sockets, cartridge pins...
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[quote user="Lx_"] Another example of cannot-measure-it-but-can-hear-it? [/quote]Oh, yes, there is plenty of it in the audio electricity world. It is not that “cannot-measure”, everything might be measured the problem is that we have no idea wha...
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Yep, I fixed it. If does sound very good now, exactly how it has to be. It turns out that my suspicion were correct: my Micro’s fat cable has died on me. I absolutely assure you that no one would believe that a regular phono cable able to introd...
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[quote user="Stringreen"] The New Jersey Symphony purchased a number of high priced instruments - Strads, Guanaris, etc. in what they called "The Golden Collection". They paid way too much money for the collection, but thought that the better s...
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