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OK, you need to find out if the problem is in phonostage on in TT as the problem was “spanning several turntables and arms”. You might run your phonostage from anti-RIAA filter from your CD player:
http://www.hagtech.com/iriaa.html
or use one of ma...
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A friend has a fixed headshell model S2 and is about to trade for a detachable just for convenience but worries if there is any extra sonic merit in the model he already has?Any idea Mr B____p.s. Romy, I've got my 901 and I'm very much impr...
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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 someone's opinion with...
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Romy,
If you do not want to throw your Shelter 901 in the dustbin, I suggest sending it to Peter Ledermann at Sound Smith. He does retipping (usually with ruby cantilevers and line-contact diamonds) but can also repair suspensions. There would be...
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Puccini il trittico live in lyon 1st balcony center vs. Shelter 901 through three-way horn-loaded speakers in myExperience room!Looking back through romy's earlier posts in effort to reconcile live experience last night with what I have at home!I wan...
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Since the post above was posted I’ve receive a number of emails from the different people who complain about my use of word “Gray” while I described the 103 cartages. Well, I am not completely comfortable with the word “gray” as well. However, ...
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With my resent battle with Shelter and the off the FM session analog renaissance I am playing a lot of records and there is one observation I would like to make. I feed all my 3 “better” tonearms into the “End of Life" Phonostage and I can’t not to m...
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Sounds too good to be true, Romy. But it is winter, and I admit I'm still holding my breath.From the reports so far, it looks like the thing might be worked with to good overall advantage; but, as usual, some significant adaptation is...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]1) High electrostatic or whatever other reason make the cartridge very prone to collect dust.
2) Exceedingly hard-reading with slightly overly prominent leading-edges of the phases. This demands VERY high quality...
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The idea of trapped horn looks like get very popular among audio people. I have no position on the subject and I do not know if trapped horn is able to facilitate proper sound and if it drastically different from the sound of operated enclosures. I n...
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Hi Romy,The thing is.. Mr Schroeder is making a living and as such (being someone who needs to make a living in order to pay for stuff), he may from time to time have to associate himself with people that will facilitate this ability to help him pay ...
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It is actually sound like a promising cartridges and it does not sound like nether SPU nor Shelter
Before mounting I made a few shots of the needle to see how it will be wearing. Where is the best place to keep the pictures as not at my site? At t...
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Can't say I share your abhorrence of all thing silver. My experiences have been somewhat different. I wouldn't however want to be accused of blinkered partisanship towards any particular brand though so I'll say no more about (some of ) the AN s...
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Hello, this is my first post here - this is a wonderful web site, critical and fair - a lot of knowledge here and i consider you real connoiseurs - that's why i'm hoping to resolve my problem here.
I have a Micro Seiki SX-111FVL - the big L one, a...
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[quote user="Bud"]… do yourself a favor and purchase an APC 600, one of the light tan models, not the noisy, smelly onyx models. Do not run it from the PP 2000 , run it from the wall. The PP 2000 will then shelter your other components from this newe...
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Hi Romy,
I happened to visit your site and stumbled on the Sakuma discussions.Just in case anyone was wondering what was being said in the two videos:
1 despite looking like a vampire, there was no religious cult like talk. No mention of spirits or...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]The mid bass and lower bass are fine, the lower bass is another subject. It is there and it is goo but I would like to have more. It is not that it is deficient but… put in this way if it has more than my playback will be a...
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Hi Romy and others,One thing that I have struggled with for some time is that I have always been plagued with
inner groove distortion on the majority of my records (many new, all cleaned with Nitty Gritty).
Inner Groove Distortion on the sibi...
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RomyYour first question was "Does it do bass"... Yes, and it does it full frequency with great tonality. I am a ribbon panel owner as you may remember and also have modified Tannoys as monitors so I know easily when I am lacking in the bass departmen...
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[quote user="Paul S"] At the same time, I am wondering about what sources you have been using. I mentioned early on that the Jubilee is polite, and I wonder what the Shelter might sound like with the "softer power", just with respect to a capac...
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[quote user="N-set"]I agree that the QC is probably non-existant there (the involved people correct me if I'm wrongand show your QC procedures, seriously).The holy original was made by Ikeda, as a google search reveals.They say that it's a MM:
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[quote user="Antonio J."]I knew that my asking about the cart used would make you to write the kind of comment you've done. What I've enjoyed most and exclusively of the disc has been the music, all are terrific pieces and some, like the Ko...
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After more than 10 years of using the Micro Seiki MAX-282 tonearm I realized that if it is my second stereo arm then why I presume it shall have Second Sound? I have properly performing mono and stereo arms and I have a dally arm. The Daily arm is a ...
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[quote user="Axel"]OK, this is useful also, in that you have not noted a "pattern" as you say. My point is closer to your suggestion, that I do change cart --- and sometimes buy new ones, B U T I do not buy other SUT (at least I try to avoid it). I'...
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After all, I have learned that there is deference between the 901 and 90x. I wonder why on one “reviewer”, dealer or distributor were not able to explain the differences. Also, form this table it is very understandable why many people with metal ring...
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People who read me site know that I am a big admirer of older SME arms 3012/3009. Everything is great on them except they have no objective VTA scale. The new SME arm: M2-12/9 has a fixing bolt that allows dial-in and to maintaining VTA very accurate...
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Since my “End of Life" Phonostage have materialized I got exposed to a temptation of finding a “right” cable between my tonearm to the phonostage. The most critical cable between the step-up transformer and phonostage does not exist in my system anym...
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[quote user="starboy"]A friend has a fixed headshell model S2 and is about to trade for a detachable;just for convenience but worries if there is any extra sonic merit in the model he alread has? Any idea Mr B____ [/quote]
Obviously the fixed head...
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Just a few lines to the "Performance" of this piece of wood on strings for 7k $I listened to the Schroeder Reference + SQ and some custom made ones which were normally not available (Schroeder model blahblah with Valhalla cable etc.)(of course you ca...
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People asked me: Romy why don’t you try to transfer some analog to digital and see what happen. I was queries myself and I decided to try tonight.
Whatever I did was in a way half-ass but I was interested in “as is” result. Although the attem...
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