Just found out that my graduate student got a very prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!!! This is the first one we have had in our department in the last couple of decades. I am very excited and proud.
Is now the right time to voice my strong opinion against the vast majority of tube phono stages?
The effect of various tube parameters (Rp) on the RIAA accuracy totally trumps any advantage.
A few stoopid-expensive phono stages take it into account and have neat solutions, but most do not
Said fuck it to other things requiring my attention...
It lives but I haven't done any testing except for balance/offset etc. Now for some not so fun wiring...