Recent content by pure sound

I do have original 50 Hz pulleys if you need one and the genuine belts/springs/mats etc.

It's a Series 200 Pre which was normally just an MM phono stage but this one has the additional MC stage (the ECC83 to the left). btw 12AX7 is an ECC83. The valves are in the correct positions. All the valves would benefit from being matched internally ie they are double triodes and each triode...

Anthos Audio. Made in Norfolk. Radian Mid driver, 12" hornloaded upper bass & some kind of active sub incorporated. Digital crossover. One of the nicer sounding systems at Bristol imho.

It's a handy gadget which in this instance you'd set to mono & then take a single lead to the Leak. Or simplify further, 2 phonos in, one out & no switch.

Yes, not good.

On the cartridges I really like the GE Variable Reluctance models. I have a couple of VR-II and a stereo CL7. I feel cartridge design took a wrong turn at some point

Old circuit configuration but the cap on the input is still there.

The original version was a commission Living Voice undertook to have made for a particular customer to that customer's specific design. The speaker within was derived from one of LV's Avatar models. The customer reserved the rights to the project and presumably has chosen to make more of them. I...

Sony CDP 715E & 915E. Very good dig filter & Dac, quiet, calm backgrounds.

It's interesting to note that since this thread began Technics did revisit their motors and controllers to good effect. In the older designs, each pulse driving the platter around did seem to be accompanied by an envelope of noise which the motor tried to follow. This had a detrimental but quite...

There are any number of active MC stages that do exactly that and then simply apply gain afterwards boosting the cartridge's output up to a level that the line stage or line level inputs of an integrated or pre can work with. Or alternatively, they'll use a transformer with a ratio that boosts...

In my experience, while the SL does want to see a higher impedance meaning 1:10 sut's are a good match, the ML is happier into a lower impedance so 1:15 or 1:20 ratio transformers are a better bet. ymmv.

Would be interested to know how they were setting the Eq for the 78's. Been having some fun recently with a phono stage that allows you to dial it in very accurately for all of the different labels that were issuing discs at the time. It's alarming how good & dynamic 78's can be when played via...

Sadly I can't recall your presentations Graham. I do remember hearing & seeing such systems in Paris at Maison de L'audiophile in about 1987 while the high end show was on. Jean Hiraga & Gerard Chretien were certainly pioneers re-introducing to Europe an approach that had first been...

I do have the proper ie factory supplied belts for the TT2 if you need one.