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I’ll look for the reference, but I recall reading an article (maybe Fremer, maybe someone else) proposing that a change in VTF has far more of an effect on SRA than VTA/tonearm height. I take this into account by just making sure the tonearm is somewhere near level then set the VTF in the...

Southeastern and Something More Than Free are both excellent but I started with The Nashville Sound and highly recommend it.

Bumping this great tonearm!

Bump🥊

Straight line speed is vastly overrated. More fun to drive a slow car fast than a fast car slow.

Internal. Mine aren’t the prettiest things and the speakers sit in the main living room. Tidier this way.

10 meters should work. I started with 25 feet of 16awg Neotech stranded teflon and needed a bit more for my Markwarts in 620 cabs. I could have been more conservative with it, but there was some trial and error involved. In the end I used ~4m to connect the crossover to the driver in each...

The notes section at the bottom of the schematic shows different values for the 604-8g, which is the version I have. I chose the Markwart since it seemed to have the most support/references available. Still pretty happy with it.

Interesting to hear everyone's streaming methods. It's definitely been an afterthought for me and mostly for convenience. Fortunately, I have nothing to lose by leaving and trying something else. I'll give Tidal another shot and Spotify would certainly help when sharing with "normies".

Unfortunately, I've just had to cancel Qobuz. I don't intend for this to be a flame post, but thought I'd share my recent experience for anyone who may be interested. I'll aim to be as concise and objective as possible. Qobuz has been my primary streaming service for the past several years and...

Still some bargains out there…

Thanks. I recently replaced it with a Leben rs30-eq and a 4722 SUT from Redboy. Tough decision to let it go but I need to consolidate.

An excellent and compact MC only phono preamp from Sutherland. The entry to their transimpedance designs. TZ Vibe | Sutherland Engineering It’s in great shape and sounds fantastic with the right cartridge (low output, low internal impedance). $950

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