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Since I left with only 3 arm for my TT I asked myself what arm I will use for my mono cartridge. I would like to have 12” arm an arm that is comfortable. I have an old 3009 but it is original vision Mk1. The collectors love it but I do not find...
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The regular visitors of my site know about my recent frustrations with my new Ortofon SPU cartridge for my “mono tonearm”: Is it all that Ortofon SPU can do? Today I made some alternations that more or less cured the audio problem and I decided ...
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[quote user="tokyo john"]Audio Note has released a turntable called the Ginga which costs 60 thousand US dollars in Japan. (if you google Audio Note Ginga images you will find it very easily).My first reaction was pure cynicism, as Audio Note doe...
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Last week I had a date with my Psychotherapist (every serious Audiophile needs one when he is above 40 and Al - his name is Al Right - charges only 165$/h, he is an Audiophile and a good guy. In his waiting room I met my old buddy De - his name i...
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[quote user="starboy"]www.blueangelaudio.com[/quote]I did not have time to follow the posts over the weekend and I need to spend some time to carefully read all comments including the linked. I kind of confided with new names at this point and I why ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]1) Be very careful with use Halco resistors. They were very good 15 years back but they turned south very aggressively. I bought a party of Halco in 2005 and I forced myself to trashed them as they were very noisy. You...
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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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[quote user="rowuk"]How many sources do you currently have? If you are building a phono corrector, make it for 4 volts output. If you have a PC for digital playback, there are good DACs with more than 2V output. That would leave a tuner to pimp - cer...
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Actually I use Koussevitzky 1949 version of Tchaikovsky’s IV (first movement) to assess my mono analog. There is not doubts in my mind that any more or less serious records enthuses much have a dedicated mono cartridge, preferably permanently install...
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It just was brought to my attention that Shelters released 2 new cartridges: 7000 and 9000. They claim for both: New design technology. Newly designed body, high rigidity, improved front-yoke, larger diameter PC-OCC lead wires wound around the redesi...
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Guy,I absolutely disagree and I think there is a huge difference between lettings your wife to know that skin in her neck remind you sesame chicken and letting a play director know that his new production stinks. Of course we moderate our behavior in...
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Don't we always go through this same discussion regardless if it is an amplifier, speaker, turntable, DAC (wine, cigars, frying pans)? Don't the arguments keep repeating themselves? Don't we all agree that IF a turntable NEEDS to cost 125K that somet...
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[quote user="marknoir"]Hello Romy
I like Shelters as well, so I finally scrubbed-up enough money and began to search. I was always happy with 901, but there were none around. Last night I got a 90X, with (supposedly) around 100 hrs on it, with...
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[quote user="perrew"]FWIW Ive heard people with Reed arms like the Red Cedar, which is also the cheapest alternative, arm wands due to neutral sound.The Panzerholz is heavier and some think might be too heavy for 12" arm. [/quote]
I never unde...
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Well, people know my unhealthy love to “invent” the things and to grant to the “inventions” stupid naming conventions. Guilty but do not care. Here is another bright idea – the DPDP consept.
Audio people spend time socializing online, patting ...
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[quote user="marknoir"]Agreed. I only wish I could hear the new Platinum for myself... :-) Meanwhile I'll be looking for a used Shelter 901.[/quote]Do yourself a favor and look for components which aren't that colored.When you don't want, because yo...
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T, although I am not in disagreement with what you suggest but I have to admit that your expectation of user applications dose not make sense to me. I’m taking the use of a transformer in a system and getting a result out of it instead of building a ...
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[quote user="cv"]The point of the field coil is to saturate the piss out of the magnetic circuit so that the coil flux does not modulate the motor. Romy, I suspect that your experience of them may be based on an older drivers where saturation was not...
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I don't know the full story of how loudspeakers went from field coils to permanent magnets. I believe that ultimately it was dictated by the price and availability of Alnico. Eventually Alnico became cheap enough to make similar or higher strength ma...
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I lately look at the noise created around the Shelter cartridges and I wonder what is going on. Shelter was doing wonderful cartridges, more or less responsibly priced and people use it for years. Bunch of the typical industry scams in past did their...
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I do not particularly see a problem with 17K cartridge. I don’t
read a full review, scan a few paragraphs and did not find it interesting for
me. The purpose of this writing, like most of the writing from those type of
people, is to convince a rea...
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Hi Romy,I feel very pleased for you. I was always somewhat puzzled by your descriptions of how you felt the S2 sounded, particularly between 600 and 1200 Hz. My experiences with a few different horns but always with a good quality SE amp were invaria...
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How nice that Chopin changed his mind about the waltz, and how nice that W. Malcuzynski tarried long enough to record these for us, using an instrument worthy of his talent and good engineers and equipment.Nice stereo, just a little over-blown. ...
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Thank you for sharing these thoughts - it fills me with wonder. I too in the end do not regret the money I spent because sometimes you need to buy the "sounds better than anything ever" amplifier, cartridge or tonearm, and to hear for yourself that i...
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I would, of course, be more forthright when discussing what I felt were the plus or minus points of a friends system. They would be familiar with the system I have, the sound I like etc. I would know that my comments would have no effect on our ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Neutrality is fidelity to musically recognized by awareness. Neutrality it is not what is auditable but rather what is delivered. Neutrality does not operate by the language of the communication channel; in fact it is...
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[quote user="Paul S"] I would like to hear something more rigorous and complex than "the usual" music the DIYers use to "prove" a design/system.[/quote]Was my thought too--"a girl with a banjo" audiopedophile(tm) crap.[quote user="Paul S"]Unusual TT!...
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[quote user="Antonio J."]Dear Romy, thanks for your comment. I actually don't want the mat to do "something" for me sonically, but to teach me how far I'm I of my ideal. Knowing your goals and taking for granted that the 8000's platter must be rather...
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Hi Romy,I believe you're right and it's due to the amount of LF the vinyl outputs, which may be more than the Bidat or the tuner do. It doesn't happen with all the discs, just some of them, which happen to be old recordings that probably have mo...
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[quote user="Alex Yakovlev"]Thank you, Romy. What about weight? My tonearm is probably too light in its original form?[/quote] I do not now the new SME tonearms. I have M12 but I never tried to get better sound out of it. Still I like heavy arms and ...
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