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My thoughts on calibration. I had started off thinking that a left channel only sweep followed by a right channel sweep then analyse off line would be the starting point. With that you could see the difference vs frequency across the band and also how different L-R and R-L cross talk were. Given we ...

Much to digest there thanks. And glad to see this has been discussed this century! I'll come back once it's sunk in :) Calibration. Yes. tricky one that. I need to think about that some more. Not least because test records are in a lot of cases not that well calibrated as they did what they could in...

Interesting. As I said, not currently sure how much this is needed on replay once mechanical damping is optimised. But might be an extra cherry on top and I like Cherries:). I'm more interested in what happens higher up the band. As a sort of on-topic aside. Have you seen any analysis of how Behring...

well the de-vinyliser was really a bit of history as to how I meandered down this path. I'm still in the camp where I would rather damp the LF wibblies but it slowly made the penny drop on how important cross-talk management might be. I'm also not sure if we have two separate issues or just two side...

I have been mulling over the role of cross-talk in the vinyl experience for a few years now, triggered by this thread http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/analogue-source/284561-hypothesis-prefer-vinyl-douglas-self.html . After a bit of meandering Douglas didn't reach his goal of a vinyliser but did do an...

Hi Les,

Welcome. As you 'were there' I have a few questions to tie up some loose ends over things that don't quite stack up over the way the V15 range worked. Would you be willing to field them?

Bill

I'll stick with the M-S as it gives me the flexibility for whatever comes (I do have a Russian friend who does things with cartridges and he can modify them for M-S operation by rotating the coils). I have to admit that, for 35 odd years I never saw the need for a mono switch but added a resistive c...

The Denon namings over the years are very confusing. There are/were at least 8 factory variants and, as it's become the flathead V8 of the cartridge world there are a whole slew of retip options effectively off the shelf. It is quite astounding the longevity of this. Still not at VW Beetle levels, b...

If I ever get back to my bench to finish the mk1 of the new phono preamp M-S conversion will be a must. I need a mono switch so side comes for free!

I recognised that EMT immediately as soon as I saw it as have seen posts from Christian before. nice setup. I think he might be missing a few tricks though. Not least that there is a very good argument for doing an M-S conversion before declicking as the majority of clicks are vertical. Of course th...