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| Have a Victor UA-7045 tonearm coming lewm, you don't seem to understand that there is rubber inside and on the other side of that short aluminum piece that is attached to the pivoting collar. That must be replaced as well. The brass bolt must never touch any other metal except the st... | |
| Have a Victor UA-7045 tonearm coming lewm, o-rings won't fix the problem if the rubber is deteriorated to the point that it is falling apart. You can add all the rubber you want to the exposed section of the tonearm and make the stub stick straight out but if the square head of the b... | |
| Have a Victor UA-7045 tonearm coming Your absolutely correct Elliott, it is an easy job to machine the hole in the armboard plate anyway. I need to find some more material to make a few extra armboard plates for the future. I DO want to find a UA-7082 arm down the road.BillWojo | |
| Have a Victor UA-7045 tonearm coming Well it came with a nice TT 61, a rare unit only found in Japan it seems. Not quartz locked though. I started looking around and came across a recapped and serviced TT 71 for an awesome price so it sits in my plinth now. The specs on the TT 71 and... | |
| “Insides” of tubes There is thin lead wires coming out of the bottom of the glass tubes that are threaded into the hollow pins during assembly. After getting the wires in a glue is used to join the base to the glass and the pins are soldered. It sounds like someone ... | |
| Retip Question I would imagine if you asked they would return it. I'm sure most times it just goes in the trash. Why do you ask?BillWojo | |
| Preamp under $2,000. soix asked a very important question. Without knowing the preferences of the OP we might as well print out a list of every Preamp that can be purchased in that price range. Me? I wanted a warm slightly tube sound so I picked up a pristine Audio Re... | |
| Honest question about cartridge vs. turntable performance. I have to totally agree with chakster on his last post. The "noise" from a good DD turntable is vanishing low. Speed accuracy is superb. What belt drive TT manufactures actually design and build their own motors? They just use an off the shelf pro... | |
| Tonearm mounting rigidity and considerations? atmasphere, I'm trying to get my head around how a 18 lb DD precision built motor is going to excite my constrained layer plinth. It's only running at 33.33 rpm, even if the platter was out of balance by several ounces it really wouldn't inject a... | |
| Phono Preamp. With transformer or fully active A lot of SUT's offer several settings, the Denon AU-320 has two, 3 ohm and 40 ohm. The Fidelity Research FRT-4 that Elliott just purchased has 4 settings so it covers a large range of carts. A lot of hum and noise can be traced to poor planning, p... | |
| Best linear PSU under $1000? dougeyjones, I'm in total agreement with you. And jaybe scoffed at the idea of industrial PS! The lab supplies I referenced are MUCH better than some ripoff audio supply with gold plated connectors and a fancy name to go with the astronomical pric... | |
| S.A.M. Turntables... tonykay, did it ever occur to you that some of those other TT manufactures may be scamming it's customers?S.A.M. sells direct, the price isn't doubled or more when it arrives at the dealer. Manufacturing cost are a lot less in Croatia than in the ... | |
| Best linear PSU under $1000? Wow! Those things are a LOT of money for a simple power supply and usually only good for one voltage.Look on Ebay for used industrial lab power supplies. Many to choose from for 100 bucks or less. Look for Power Designs, Hewlett Packard, companies... | |
| Which SUT? .... for .3mv/10 ohms MC cartridge into 3mv MM input sensitivity I use the Denon AU-320 SUT with my Denon DL-103 cartridge that specs a 0.3mv output voltage. It's set at 1:10 step up ratio and works fine into my Audio Research SP8. When using a SUT a bit of experimentation and other folks results is quite usefu... | |
| Choosing an SUT? http://www.rothwellaudioproducts.co.uk/html/mc_step-up_transformers_explai.htmLots of good information here to explain how to match a cartridge to a SUT and match it to your phono stage. BillWojo |