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at least to me.
I had the pleasure to build the Gary Pimm design. It has enough gain to run my Denon 103D MC cartridge with no SUT and a slight ampount of tube wash noise. It doesn't better my Thorsten Loesch LCR phono stage but it's no slouch. It can easily handle with a great amount of volume down to 1MV output cartridge. Lower than that I do suggest an SUT but as I said, The Denon is .25MV and it plays loud enough in my room.
I built mine using a different power supply but other than the supply the rest is done right to the letter and it is quiet.
I will post pictures of mine once I get a nice base for it made. Should be within the week.
http://www.pimmlabs.com/web/phono.htm
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Can't wait for the pics... how are the sonics compared to that 6SL7/LCR phono stage you recently were raving about on a previous post?
Also, on Gary's website the pics of his work on the phono stage look very similar to the TVC you shipped to me. The Gary do the work on that?
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The LCR is still my favorite. Totally different soundstage. This is not in the league of the LCR but if you never had an LCR then this circuit is really good. I think it is a better choice if you never use an SUT with cartridges down to 1MV output.
"The LCR is still my favorite. Totally different soundstage. "
I am intrigued by your experience, never having heard an LCR EQ circuit. How is the soundstage different with the LCR stage? Can you summarise any other differences that you hear?
Alex
I have built both the 6SL7 and a Thorsten Loesch and although I do like them both I think the one Steven D has is more open and big. Could also have soemthing to do with the tube choice(6SL7).
In general the same thing was experienced by myself and others, that the sound stage is much larger and more open at the top. Bass is a small bit comprimised but I am a mid range person anyway. Don't get me wrong, the bass is very dramatic as compared to a standard passive RIAA but it isn't that deep. It seems just right!
Thanks for your observations. I use a homebrew VSE RTP3 and have no plans to build anything else imminently, but I have always had an interest in LCR EQ networks, as they are radically different from the usual active or passive RC networks.
Alex
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