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Hi N,I just use my turntable, arm and cartridge to measure the effects of vibrations. Don't turn the platter on, drop the cartridge into a groove and your phono corrector output will tell you everything that you need to know - as it would happen duri...
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I have lived with the Koetsu Onyx Platinum also and I agree. I did not really enjoy it very much in my system no matter what I did. However, honestly, when I first heard Koetsu many years ago (it was a Rosewood Pro IV), I was really drawn...
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Try this :
http://news.thomasnet.com/fullstory/489086
Miniature Cartridge Needle Valve
Beswick Engineering designs and manufactures high-performance miniature fluid power devices.
Beswick introduces a miniature Cartridge Needle Valve for...
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[quote user="Brian Clark"]Yes, that cartridge has NO vertical compliance AT ALL. Keep it away from your precious stereo pressings at all costs![/quote]Oops, you are right!!! What the hell I was expected to see! Sorry for being a Moron! This is funny ...
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Hello Romy,Just thought I'd post my latest re-visit to this cartridge.I've played with this overthe last 2 years on and off between Helikon/VDH MC10. It was ok but did not make a big deal,so I carried on with the Lyra which was finebut not what ...
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Agreed. I also had this issue with my Decca cartridge using the Pure Power and physical separation works well....
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[quote user="drdna"] I built this amplifier more than ten years ago, before these other tube companies were in business. I know the Vaic tubes, which the EL tubes are related to. However, I have not tried either tube. Maybe it is a good idea (and I c...
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RCA LSC-2581, 1962Here is a worthy performance and a nice stereo recording of a wonderful peice of music.Very rich orchestral sound is so appropriate for this music. Reiner, Van Cliburn and CSO at their respective bests.Mature playing on everyo...
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[quote user="RonyWeissman"] I really like my Shelter 901, but would like something which gives me a little more of the sound that i'm getting from my tuner. What do I mean by that, more realistic space/tone perhaps. [/quote]
I heard a fe...
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The people who have 3 arms on a single turntable know the problem. The tonearm on the right is the best - easy access by hand and easy to see the needle lowering location. The tonearm in the top of TT, the furthers tonearm has a perfect view of the c...
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Sure, there might be older cartridge designs that sounded good in their day if someone knew how to use them, but even new cartridges exhibit serious unit-to-unit variations. Add aging and/or deteriorating suspensions, contacts, fasteners, wires, can...
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N-set, if you have an unused circuit in the apt., then its neutral may be an acceptable ground path (neutral stays "on" even when breaker is "off"...).Re, the phono calibration, I have expounded the SRA at length in the "Vinyl Ceremonies" thread. As ...
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The whole presentation of sound is very different with your and my file. Your file is very lush sounding. It is very pleasant but a bit too euphoric for THIS music. My file is much more dynamic (if comes from my transformer) and in the way this dynam...
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Here are some my ideas for an “Unlimited Turntable”. Feel free to share some of your ideas… An “Unlimited Turntable” should allow multiple arms. It should be a good quality arm with a good stereo cartridge…. Also, it should be a good quality arm with...
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[quote user="Paul S"]Romy, I am on the verge of an L-pad for my HF ribbons, but in my case I believe it is mostly the MC cartridge response I am wanting to offset, on a case by case basis. [/quote] Hm, this it VERY bad. Fix you cartridge setup, it's ...
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Robin, this is The Dream, is it not? How Nice, and If Only. I remember when Romy was deciding on a phono cartridge, and I was getting very strongly that he did not really want a "hard tracing" cartridge, because he really did not want to have to re-s...
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Sometimes ago I received an email from a NY guy that I know:
“I borrowed a friend's Sansui TU-X1 and just like I heard them at your place it sounds fantastic! What is it about this tuner? There is such an ease to the presentation and no distra...
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***The proper loading value is difficult to say without knowing your system, as it is partly a preamp and ultrasonic RF issue as well as one that involves the cartridge and audible frequencies. Some cartridges have frequency abberations within ...
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Dear gentlemen,My name is Frank Schröder and I'm the guy in the picture. It wasn't taken to show off anything, I actually noticed it after the fact.I came across this thread by accident and even though I realize that I may be better off forgetting ab...
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[quote user="RonyWeissman"]What is the problem ? Listening to the, for example, rca victor red-seal recordings of CSO /Reiner I hear midbass weight, presence and realism that I do not have with the shelter. It is not the pushing forward or highl...
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[quote user="drdna"] The Decca London Reference appears ideal. I am probably going to buy one of these. Romy, you are free to borrow it if you wish to listen to it; just do not break it. [/quote]
Possible it is a good cartridge, I do not...
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[quote user="drdna"]Romy, I think you are asking if I have the Edgar subwoofers also. Yes, I do, like giant woodgrain refrigerator in the living room. So I do get some bass response. [/quote]
Yes, I was asking about the Edgar refrigerato...
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[quote user="starboy"]I decided recently to add the Shelter 901 to my collection of 'Groove Riderz' and wondered what was the justification of the price hike for the 90X. Read the same review as yourself and thought that I learn't nothing other than ...
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I have been running my new Ortofon SPU Mono cartridge and can’t figure out why SPU has such a strong positive reputation and why some SPU users when I ask them about Sound of those cartridge they roll up their eyes. Yes, it is all around fine cartrid...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] When you used your 25Dia then can you recall a similar experience at the beginning of the cartridge live (sharpness and bass)? [/quote]
I have yet to own a CG25 Romy, my very first Ortofon - SPU Mono - is on its way fro...
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After years of using the Expressive Technologies SU-1 and SU-2 step up transformers I come across to a fact this morning that the Expressive was reviewed by Robert Harley in June, 1992. I read the Expressive’s preamp review but I never seen this one....
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[quote user="hagtech"] Then there was the Stereophile writer we had dinner with who thought Wilson was the top of the heap [/quote]
….and I would agree. With all Wilsons limitations I sincerely feel that the big Wilson are the most interesting direc...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
Possible, with all my conversation about Mantis I do not remember I ever made any guess or assumption how it might sound. In horns, I feel I am qualified to make sometimes very bold assessments with very high prece...
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Somewhere in the thread there was mentioning of the London Reference cartridge. The Positive Feedback this month published a review of the needle.
http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue48/london_reference.htm
The review is idiotic...
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[quote user="guy sergeant"]On the Ortofon website those models of the SPU which don't come with inbuilt transformers, have a recommended load of >100 ohm. Using the cartridge into too low an impedance load definitely does lift the lower frequencie...
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