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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #44: It's not mono vs stereo, but mono dipole vs stereo by Teflon on 2012-06-04 
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With stereo you hear sound from more than one source (speaker) and the sound from each source is very nearly the same except for some variations in amplitude of certain frequencies and some phase differences which occur because the microphones us...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The mono cartridges paradox. by Romy the Cat on 2010-11-29 
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I recently assembled my analog setup and the last week played some record - I did not do it for 6 months or so due to all reconstructions…. Playing last well Bruno Walter M4 from 1948 I come across an observation – why our mono cartridges are so scre...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Perhaps the system factors in this, too? by Paul S on 2008-11-16 
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Adrian, although I find plenty of "mono" recordings that sound better to me in "mono", I will always take good stereo over good mono, other factors being equal.  Sure, some "stereo" is so poorly done that it just does not work as stereo.&nb...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #33: Ortofon MONO CG 25 Di by Romy the Cat on 2005-05-14 
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Who know anything about this needle?I am playing now this CG-25 - my new Ortofon replacement. This new cartridge is turn out to be “MONO CG 25 Di”. It looks and feel completely different and this CG-25 is what I called the TRUE mono cartridge. I...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #33: Ortofon MONO CG 25 Di by Romy the Cat on 2005-05-14 
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Who know anything about this needle?I am playing now this CG-25 - my new Ortofon replacement. This new cartridge is turn out to be “MONO CG 25 Di”. It looks and feel completely different and this CG-25 is what I called the TRUE mono cartridge. I...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #56: Mono cartridges: please not here. by Romy the Cat on 2007-01-02 
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John, I had nothing to do with Voyd or Pink Triangle, I also not a big fan of Audio Note UK. Mono cartridges is good, in fact I feel that Mono Cartridges IS A MUST for anyone who do analog more of less serious. Defiantly a second arm is more conveni...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Mono sounds better by drdna on 2008-11-16 
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I have lately been comparing the stereo and mono versions of many recordings from the 50's, and I have found that even when using the same stereo needle and closely matched for stamper number, the mono version is consistently better than the stereo v...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: The mono Leibowitz from 50s? by Romy the Cat on 2007-08-31 
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Hm, I never knew that this set exists. The well-celebrated Leibowitz session with Royal Philharmonic was recorded in spring 1961. It was truly nice cycle and the Reader Digest subscription, as most they press, was a perfect environment for this box s...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #96: Mono plate 2A3 tubes by drdna on 2009-01-01 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Are any of those new tubes besides the Chinese tubes are single plated?[/quote]I believe they are all single plated. [quote user="Romy the Cat"]I have bought some very nice 2A3 and 6A3 double plated from 1942 and 1944 an...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #45: Stereo is not even similar to dual mono dipoles by ghpicard on 2012-06-04 
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[quote user="Teflon"] With stereo you hear sound from more than one source (speaker) and the sound from each source is very nearly the same except for some variations in amplitude of certain frequencies and some phase differences which occur becau...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #51: The Mono cartridges ground loop syndrome by Romy the Cat on 2008-06-03 
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[quote user="Brian Clark"]Per Winfeld confirmed to me that the coil former assembly is rotated 45% compared to the regular SPU such that only lateral motion is sensed. Unfortunately I did not think to ask him how the coil/coils was/were wound. Since ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Mono EMT's by N-set on 2011-07-24 
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Not sure how interesting they are, but EMT seems to makededicated mono carts OFD25 (65 for '78). According to fabtech.de :"The OF-series pick-up's are pure mono versions. The transducer is constructed in a way to read only horizontal trackings. The...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Mono Orts by Brian Clark on 2004-12-12 
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I don't think it is possible to deconstruct as you desire. Perhaps you need to talk to Per Winfeld at Ortofon (I can give you the email address). The SPU Mono has 4 coils rotated 45 deg and connected for vertical modulation cancellation. The CG 25...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Ortofon Mono cartridge. by Romy the Cat on 2005-03-28 
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I, after being sick and tired form the Denon 102 misery, got the Ortofon Mono needle. I was under impression that Ortofon Mono was true mono cartridge with one coil. However, when I opened it up to mount it’s insert on my “Chernobyl Spinnaker” tonear...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #79: New 6C33C SE mono block by KOTriode on 2012-04-06 
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Just finished one mono block 6C33C SE amp.To keep things simple (power supply only need 220V), I used a single driver tube (the second tube is there for backup if not going as planned) through an interstage transformer...

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Paul,I used both halves of 6C33C this time, I planned to use two 6C33C and uses each half for more power, but that would shortened the life of 6C33C if run one triode at max power dissipation. I used the C3G as driver, since I dont use negative feedb...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The mono cartridges paradox. by Romy the Cat on 2010-11-29 
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I recently assembled my analog setup and the last week played some record - I did not do it for 6 months or so due to all reconstructions…. Playing last well Bruno Walter M4 from 1948 I come across an observation – why our mono cartridges are so scre...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Re: Mravinsky/Leningrad Mono by Romy the Cat on 2004-06-02 
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I do not know any Mravinsky’s  mono sets. I have individual mono records of him doing 4, 5 and 6 symphonies. He did the Pathétique in 1949 and 1956, both were certainly mono. The performance from 1956 I consider the ultimate Pathétique. The “qui...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #32: I do not like mono although do understand that it has some averages. by Romy the Cat on 2010-12-27 
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[quote user="AOK_Farmer"]We might well have settled with Mono.If we lived in octagonal rooms we might have settled on 3 channels.Maybe it is about the rectangular rooms we live in that we choose stereo? What if we lived in round rooms?  Something to ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #48: Mono - more to it than you think ? by Teflon on 2016-04-09 
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[quote user="steverino"]Generally I agree that Mono recordings are only preferable when the stereo recording is messed up in some way.[/quote]I would assume this is a popular viewpoint, and easily agreed with, when the goal is to reproduce as closely...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: The benefit of using 834PT in dual mono. by Romy the Cat on 2008-01-10 
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[quote user="difool"]What is the benefit of using 834PT in dual mono over a stereo 834PT? [/quote] That is a good question and I asked myself it numerous times. My current standing is the benefits are purely intellectual as I am not able to observe ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #50: SPU Mono, fact & conjecture by Brian Clark on 2008-06-03 
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Per Winfeld confirmed to me that the coil former assembly is rotated 45% compared to the regular SPU such that only lateral motion is sensed. Unfortunately I did not think to ask him how the coil/coils was/were wound. Since the quoted DCR is signific...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #54: The Mono cartridges ground loop syndrome: resolved by Romy the Cat on 2008-06-04 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] I think I need to put a switch that would disconnect the right and left primary in case the Mono SPU is used. I ‘m still thinking about a more elegant solution…. [/quote] Well, it is resoled and it is resoled remarkably s...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #85: 6C33C mono block @ clipping by KOTriode on 2012-04-06 
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Paul, I tried this tube in few other amps and also on a phono amp and I like the sound of this tubes, perhaps it  matched with the speakers/amp combination better than other, still there are lots of other tube out there that I would like to tr...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: A new 'chic' foolishness about mono systems by Romy the Cat on 2005-01-03 
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Lately, here and there, among the “advanced audio people” become very fashionable to spread bravado about themselves that they “more evolved” because they dropped the “slavery of stereophonic reproduction” and went back to mono installations. My nume...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #31: MONO TREE by zako on 2010-12-26 
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Stereo is only as good as the width of your head,,,Both visual and audio...Of course locolazion diminish,s as you sit back further,, Hall ambiences will eventually take over...If you are the conductor you get a different perspective,,,And PERSPEC...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: WHICH mono Ortofon? by Brian Clark on 2005-03-28 
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Romy, is that an SPU Mono that you have there? This converted stereo cartridge (SPU = Stereo Pick Up) has its coils rotated 45 degrees to reduce vertical sensing. The Ortofon C Series are the genuine mono cartridges - the motor system is the same ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Re: Mono Orts by starboy on 2004-12-12 
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Methinks that Mr C is correct in that the SPU cannot be deconstructed as I asked the same question elsewhere and got shouted down.   :-(  But hey, maybe they were minor league rookies and some major playa has the answer.... By the way ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: Dual mono 834PT by difool on 2008-01-10 
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Hi Romy,forgive me for asking this question but i haven't found an answer to this in all the posts concerning the 834PT:What is the benefit of using 834PT in dual mono over a stereo 834PT?Greetings difool...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #49: The Ortofon SPU Mono wiring diagram. by Romy the Cat on 2008-06-03 
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Do any of you, the  SPU Mono users, know how the SPU MONO coils wired internally? Is it a stereo cartridge strapped mono or it is a single coil cartridge with two channels running in parallel from the same coil? Is anyhow even seen any...
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