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RE: Tweeter difference problem with 3.3Rs and more

Busy yesterday and probably most of today.

I got the Signet branded OC9 which came with the ML tip.

Re MF A1 I nearly bought one but it didn't have enough power on the JBL Centuries to cook my ears on the orchestral spectaculars I listen to (loudly). By then I had replaced the tweeters with a Yamaha NS1000 tweeter, and differences in sound quality upstream became very obvious.

Re CD - get the Trivista21 if you can afford it. If you can afford the mods, it should get new opamps - opa627 and have the caps bypassed with high quality foil caps - Underwood Hifi offer a good set of mods. On the used market the Trivista is probably about as good as digital gets without going to DCS/Theta/Wadia/Novaphysics phenomenally expensive gear. The new DAC2 from Wyred 4 sound seems to be a good one, but I don't know how well it stacks against the Trivista. It does have a discrete output stage and seems to make a good SS preamp to boot. Monarchy's NM24 is another really great DAC, but is a wee bit weak on the lowest bass - like the Cambridge 840C.

OK so the 640P should be considered as serious kit. I'll look around here, there are plenty of them, it is really not worthwhile to ship.

Re mounted vs naked cartridges. If you want me to try a particular alignment than send the cartridges in their headshels. I just use Technic's mounting guide to position the stylus and align the cartridge. Seems to work well, so I stopped trying other alignments. If you think this is ok, then nothing could be easier than mounting this way.

Re expanding the repertoire will have to wait a bit.

Cleaning solution should have at least 10% isopropanol and up to 30% or even a bit more to promote rapid evaporation. Yes, steaming may seem very aggressive, but the vinyl was slowly relaxed when pressed in the production process, so should snap back into shape

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