banquo363
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| A Copernican View of the Turntable System Lewm: I haven't done any extensive comparative tests between the stock mat and my current one, the Boston Audio Mat 2, but the latter definitely lowers the noise floor. It's a deep dark black background--as it should be. One issue I've noted howev... | |
| A Copernican View of the Turntable System Nandric: what Lewm said.Lewm: As you can see from my system pics, my second arm is behind the tt and in from the left edge by about 4 inches. The pod was designed so that it could go partially underneath the tt's square top (that is crucial). The ... | |
| Apocalypse Now?—Technics sp10 problem s Just to finish the story that this thread started with, I can say with confidence that Bill Thalmann in VA can fix your sp10 should it require it. I was at the point of giving up, after 4 months of fruitless waiting, but decided to take Lewm's adv... | |
| A Copernican View of the Turntable System After around 7 months of annoyance and concern, I finally managed to assemble my nuded sp10 a month back. It took 6 months to fix my TT (note to anyone with a bum sp10: send to Bill Thalmann as *first* and only option) The TT sits atop 3 AT 616 fo... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Raul,May I remind you that Socrates was executed for pestering his fellow citizens, constantly urging them that their current point of view requires testing and that upon testing were always found short of the mark. Regardless of culture, it'... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? on the replacement stylus for empire d3 i am having not much luck locating one that looks like the picture of yours in your review of d3. not giving up yet though.The shop in the Netherlands at the link I posted above has it or at least had it 3 m... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Here's the Dutch site, Raul: http://www.pickupnaald.nl/?page=shop/flypage&product_id=1072 | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Re my "thoroughbreds": Will someone please buy that friggin' L07D that's for sale on the 'gon? It bothers me that no one will pay that incredible bargain price.I was actually going to email you about that tt Lewm. I believe you have 2 of them (!) ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? I did not mean to divert this thread any further from its original path with my brief response on Hegel. It just seems to me that the issues raised have a direct parallel to the issue about cartridges.To argue that something - Hegel - is difficult... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? As if this is not enough you are also teasing me with Hegel. I have read all the 600 pages of his 'Science of logic' but was not able to understand onesingle sentence. Paraphrasing an eminent contemporary philosopher, "Hegel is long and life is sh... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? I'm not at all a 'cable guy'. It would please me no end if I couldn't hear significant and pleasure undermining differences between cables. FWIW, I'm just listening for musicality, whether my reference recordings draw me in more with one set of ca... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? I've been playing around with interconnects and note that the LSA really responds to changes. I was having the LSA drive a 12 foot run of blue jeans cable into my rm10 amp. Sounded good to me...until I moved some stuff around which allowed me to p... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? For me, the amount of money I spent on MM in the last 6 months would have been inconceivable a year ago. I would have scoffed at the very idea of it. Things of course have changed. Whether I would have been better of buying 1 killer MC cart is a l... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Next issue: Designer cabling, is it worth the cost?I'm on tenterhooks waiting for this episode! | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Chris is right, I believe. Light is good for the marketplace; mystery helps perpetuate less than rational bidding. In the past 6 months (prices are off the top of my head) I've paid:Empire 4000diii cartridge body: $20Empire 4000diii NOS stylus: $7... |