Hi Joachim,
impressive product you have there!
From all your recent efforts: do you have a favourit input stage soundwise, other issues as flexibilty and so on aside?
Rüdiger
impressive product you have there!
From all your recent efforts: do you have a favourit input stage soundwise, other issues as flexibilty and so on aside?
Rüdiger
Ones you have heard a DC coupled balanced stage it´s hard to go back. I build stages that had a more full tone then The Suesskind Rauschfrei and where even more quiet but non had that transparency, speed and dynamics. That is not always a good thing. The turntable needs to be very good and the needle perfectly adjusted and super clean. The records have to be cleaned too. Some mixes sound so strange that you think the musicians come from another planet. But when the moon is full on the weekend, its dry inside, not too warm, not too cold, the dog in the Mercedes Sossa album i like so much barks so loud and clear 20 meters back in the soundstage that you are simply "there".
I like J-Fets at the input for simplicity and i managed to make them sound dynamic if there would not be that crazy "P-Channel Problem".
I like J-Fets at the input for simplicity and i managed to make them sound dynamic if there would not be that crazy "P-Channel Problem".
I bought 100 from Mouser a while back, and it took months to actually get them. Check to see if part is actually in stock (rather than on order) before ordering.
Did you see / hear Rui´s setup this time ?
He had a heavy TT with an outboard idler wheel. (This time I do not know wo made the phonos for him ).
He had a heavy TT with an outboard idler wheel. (This time I do not know wo made the phonos for him ).
