nikongod

Click photo for a few more like it. Got the cartridge, headshell, and clamp today out of the "old vinyl gear" bag at the local audio society holiday party.

No melos? Why? I have posted my thoughts on this elsewhere on this site, and would recoemdn quite strongly against it. fixed it for you. sorry to maybe be the first to say to you that grado does not use the same crap cables as everyone else. Bummer. Sorry, I didnt read the rest of your post the first sentance had the essence of the rest in it for me.

I do still like the "SP Sound" quite a bit. If you are comfy checking the amp over a bit they do make an excellent option. If you are comfy DIY'ing the amp, finding an MPX3/PPX3 is as easy as posting a WTB for $25 more than what the last one sold for, which wasn't much.

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sounds good to me. Like everyone else Im upgrading to JH13

Anyone able to split a room? LMK soon

Rega RB-600

Happy Birthday! Have a great one!

It means that the transformer is "floated" (not grounded) as opposed to grounded. Transformers were historically ALWAYS grounded somewhere so that heaven forbid the insulation in the transformer fails any voltage that finds its way out of where you want it goes straight to ground. Newer transformers make failures far less likely with better materials and construction techniques, but for historical reference. The problems with center tapping the transformer come at you from a few directions. The first is that the center tap is not always perfectly centered on the windings so the 2 phases are not always equal in every respect and not as well balanced as they could be. Better transformers avoid this with better construction, but thats $$$$. The second is that switching from "balanced" to "single ended" with a center tapped transformer requires yet another switch which must be switched properly (if you float the transformer its very easy to hook up to SE). The last thing is that by grounding the transformers you have introduced "ground" into the signal path where you are going from component to component: no ground connections between components=no ground loops! Going back to the telephone example or long runs of cable like at a concert, ground loops become very dificult to deal with any other way when dealing with stuff that is being run on different power grids. By floating, the balance is set by the load to ground which can be controlled far more accurately than a center tap. In the case of stuff that is not grounded (headphones, speakers, the output/input transformers in audio components, etc) there is no ground connection at all, and the balance is set by random looses. This random junk is actually MUCH better than it would seem to be as it effects EVERYTHING equally. Balanced is no longer balanced when the 2 phases are not equal in every respect. As a quick example of floating, I have run an MC cartridge into an MC SUT fully floated without shields and gotten acceptable noise pickup (it was barely audible, but a somewhat contrived test: I have heard noisier things set up "right") . no shield, 0.3mv signal. It is better with a shield but Now that all of that is out there, Im not convinced floating/grounding the transformer matters either way for SQ on the output of a POWER amplifier except in providing certain types of feedback, which is not an issue here. I have heard some arguments for noise getting into the system through the outputs, but that seems to be more of a problem for amps with global feedback loops than open loop amps.

happy late birthday.

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Taking the shell off is pretty easy. The key is making sure you separate all the joints with the exact-o knife and ROTATING the cartridge in & out of the shell, not lifting it straight up. It requires surprisingly little force once you separate the joints.

The Denon is now all glued together, I drilled some holes in the stock body, and stuck some dynomat in the few places I think it will fit. Im going to put the ventilated stock body shell back on to see how that works out. PS: I really want a macro lens

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happy new year!

Its here! I played my normal "test" record (my korean record) and Im quite happy with it. Im going to run an old beat up record for a few spins to break it in The little denon test-sheet says that the chanels are 0.35/0.35mv (woot) My last 103 was 0.30/0.32mv.

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Boredom struck. rest of album That cartridge has had a long life. It started as a "red." I got it with a Rega Planar 2 a long time ago, and replaced the stylus with a green stylus. Then I did the "longhorn" mod (this is why there is a thin line of glue across the top of grado in the pics) part of the longhorn mod is injecting silicon oil into the coils, which I may have overdone. I peeled off the little metal cover thingy over the coils and here it sits. If I ever buy another new to me grado, the coils are getting potted, or at least varnished together.

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This thread made me buy a (second, had one before) denon 103. I cant wait to get it broken in, and modified like my old one. I wonder if it will sound good on the arm on my harris idler (Micro-Trak 303a) I think its worth a shot. I would pass on this one. knowing absolutely nothing about it, it looks like a farly average consumer grade piece of gear. Unless its reallllllly cheap you can do better elsewhere. Keep an eye on craigslist & goodwill type shopes for older stuff.

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Happy Birthday Ken!

Drop something heavy on it. Done. Im amazed the actual arm tube isn't broken though. The pulley belongs on the top of the motor shaft. You can see the pulley-less motor in the back left (opposite tonearm) corner of the TT. The motor needs a pulley to hold the belt/rubber band/thread/whatever and set the right speed for the platter. getting the wrong sized pulley for your motor & platter sucks. My money says that any impact that would break a plastic pulley would damage the motor shaft, and you can get motors FAR FAR FAR less than $600. Like my Teres motor, which you should buy even though I have no idea how to mount it to a clearaudio TT. There are a couple Chinese add-on motors that also come in FAR less than $600, and are universal although require that speed be set manually.