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    To SUT or not to SUT?

    IMHO you have bought an MC cartridge that would be very difficult to match to most SUTs as you have a very low internal impedance - 1.4 ohms and a very high output 0.5mv. A SUT to match the cartridge's gain would be around x10 to give you 5 mv for your MM stage.The SUT's input impedance is 470...
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    CD Transport vs Music Server

    I have just come to this thread most of the rhetoric will not be read by me - sorry. The point I bring is this. I have a Project CD RS2 T which I bought for the quality of the transport itself. I use a Lumin U2 Mini and a Holo Audio Spring 3 V2 DAC. The quality of sound via the Mini's USB out to...
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    stuff of dreams....3000 classical records inbound.

    Thanks Mike. Just trying to get a feel for your playback preferences and whether you were into older gear for older records a la Art Dudley? But obviously not as you seem to have all bases covered using modern playback equipment.
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    stuff of dreams....3000 classical records inbound.

    Is there somewhere that says which equipment you use to playback your 60s/70s classical vinyl Mike please?
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    To SUT or not to SUT?

    So are you using the single ended inputs or balanced of your 2SE? I am using a VDH Frog MC with 0.65 mv output which usually likes to see around 470 ohms which is the x10 tap of my Music First SUT. This amplifies the signal to 6.5 mv and my phono stage's input sensitivity is 2 mv. I tried using...
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    To SUT or not to SUT?

    I came across this post in the Audiogon Forum a while back which got me thinking about gain matching with SUT's. The guy who wrote it has the same ARC Ref 2SE amp as you. Probably a coincidence but did you write that article by any chance...
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    To SUT or not to SUT?

    I have found by experimentation that to get the best from an MC cartridge/SUT combination it is not just a matter of matching the cartridge's impedance to the SUT's but matching the gain of the SUT/cartridge combination. The gain produced by the SUT/cartridge can be too great for the MM RIAA...
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    CD Transport vs Music Server

    I just wondered how you will be able to use the HDPlex 300W LPSU with the Pro-Ject RS2 T as it requires 20V and the HDPlex 300W only has 19V - or mine has? Perhaps your's is different?
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    stuff of dreams....3000 classical records inbound.

    Less is more Michael - imho. I have a 6000+ vinyl collection of which 80% are classical. As a collector of 50 years I haven't listening to a lot of them - just collected them along the way as I read their reviews in Gramophone magazine to listen as and when. I am intrigued who the Gramophone...
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    To SUT or not to SUT?

    I apologise if someone else has mentioned this before. Your 'My Sonic Labs Gold cartridge' has an ultra low impedance which means in practice a high current output. If you switched to a current amplification phono stage like the one from CH Precision or others like Channel D etc this would be a...
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    Gian's system - Vyger-Opus vs Techdas AF3, SAT+Lyra Lambda

    Any ideas why SAT is using 75 mm as an inner radius for its alignment protractor? The usual numbers used are IEC 1958 60.325 mm or DIN 57.5 mm.
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