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| Comparison of sonic qualities of some tonearms Oh I forgot another significant arm in my life. A Rabco SL8E. This was mounted on a Thorens TD125MkII and worked well. It was a tangental tracking arm, actually it was always hunting, but It lifted at the end of play and it was reliable. | |
| Comparison of sonic qualities of some tonearms A very interesting discussion indeed. Arms definitely matter. In my opinion a lot. I am amused by Raul's comment that all arms should have silver wire. Raul is a man who knows his stuff and several years ago, when I first bought my SL1200GAE he... | |
| Illustrated Encyclopedia of Jazz and Blues, Awesome! Thanks for sharing. It really does look like a nice book. I was disappointed to discover how expensive it would be to buy one considering how long it has been out of print. I wish some publisher would get interested in a new edition. My New Gr... | |
| VPI Prime Sig/Lyra Delos / Feedback ...help! It seems from your description that the Lyra is the source of the feedback. If you are comfortable switching cartridges, try substituting in the Hana to the new TT and see if the problem goes away. If so that tells you that the Lyra is just a mu... | |
| Vinyl rips - still worth it? There is a lot of music on old records that is not available otherwise. Plus you can create you own mix. I say go for it and have fun. | |
| Technics SL-1200GAE or VPI HW-40 or …? I agree that the VPI Prime was more fussy than the Technics because I had a Prime before I traded it for the HW40. The HW40 is not fussy at all, however, and is just as set it and forget it as the Technics. | |
| Technics SL-1200GAE or VPI HW-40 or …? It seems to me that Technics makes a model much more expensive and perhaps competitive with the VPI in their 1000 series. Truthfully there is not as much difference in performance between these TTs as you would think. | |
| Technics SL-1200GAE or VPI HW-40 or …? I believe I can help you with your query. My two principle TTs are an HW40 and an SL1200GAE. They sit side by side in my principle system and are in daily use when I am in my primary residence in South Florida. Both TTs have been with me for se... | |
| Upgrade My Turntable - How Much Do I Need to Spend? Off topic but relevant to the thread, I own several cartridges: stereo, true mono, that is single element single coil, or bridged internally to be mono. I no longer own it, but did own a preamp with a mono switch. In spite of what you might have... | |
| Upgrade My Turntable - How Much Do I Need to Spend? Further thoughts, take a hard look at the new Denon turntable. I think it lists for about $2,500 and looks like a winner too. | |
| Upgrade My Turntable - How Much Do I Need to Spend? If I were you I would take a look at $2,000 turntables from Rega, Technics, Pro-Ject and VPI and pick the one you like. Then get one of the PS Audio phono stages. They list for $3,000 but go on sale for $2,000. Or you might find one used. Your... | |
| SUT experience In the world of science we are learning new things all the time. From Quantum Physics to Astonomy to medical discovery among many fields things are happening. There are all kinds of things that are not fully understood. Don't deny yourself a ch... | |
| SUT experience Raul, It would seem that we have reached more agreement than difference in this matter. We both use SUTs on occasion. (BTW, you can probably find out all about the Consolidated SUT on the OMA website, mine is the silver wire version.) We both... | |
| SUT experience Raul, We are discussing our preferred approach to the playing of the music here. We should be adults and agree that if the elimination of as much distortion as possible were the goal (here let us ignore your frequent protests to the contrary) we... | |
| SUT experience This is an interesting discussion. I generally like the sound of the distortions added when an SUT is inserted into the chain, but find that there is no universal truth. Of course adding one requires an additional set of phono cables and that ca... |