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| Decent Bass & Mids, compressed highs on Analog Hello All, Thank you for your suggestions. I've made very considerable progress in gaining very respectable sound from my Dynavector 20X-L cartridge with its off-center cantilever by using a caliper to center the cantilever in the headshell. Treb... | |
| SME V and Benz LP-S Hi Wt4158, Damping fluid is intended to absorb ambient, non-music signal energy (vibrational energy, in the form of resonance frequencies). Any non-signal vibration whatsoever can degrade the quality of musical playback. Theory states that silico... | |
| Talea Arm: What cartridges are best? Hi Mike, Thank you for your encouragement. Hope your Telos continues to feel like a Formula 1 ride.LewM, what other cartridges did you hear on the Talea?Syntax, what gear was associated with the Ortofon Anna that you heard?Thank you all, David | |
| SME speed adjustment Or, Peter, a Variac, as we described. They are available on ebay or easily from scientific supply houses if you would like a used one.Best to You in your Search,David | |
| Best Vibraplane Compressor Substitute? Hello Everyone, Thank you for your suggestions. Albert, it's a model 2012-13 (13 designating vinyl top). I agree about Nitrogen: it is not only safer but as an inert gas, less reactive with the storage cylinder and the rubber of the air bladders.... | |
| Different Results between Record Cleaning Machines Spoke with Jim Pendleton (of AIVS) this morning. He was *great,* taking the time necessary to answer every one of my questions.He first asked if I knew the cleaning history of the albums. As a control in my cleaning experiment, I cleaned an album ... | |
| Different Results between Record Cleaning Machines Thanks to your responses I've discovered that my Model 16 was retrofitted with the spring-loaded 16.5 vacuum wand and a new top. Therefore there isn't the problem endemic to the 16, where the vacuum tube was attached to the lid of the machine.I'm ... | |
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| Snapped off my cantilever Stringreen wrote: "Soundsmith will do a great job, but the cartridge you get back is not going to be the same. If you like your cartridge as well as you say you do, have Clearaudio repair it."I have wondered for some time why so many cartridges fo... | |
| Interface: Cartridge-Preamp or Cart-Tonearm? Hello again, Dctom, and Everyone Else as well, Dctom, your explanation sounds clear to me at present. When I gain access to a scope, if I have difficulty, would you be willing to 'walk me through the process?' This could take a year or so, as ther... | |
| Interface: Cartridge-Preamp or Cart-Tonearm? To Dctom, Thank you for responding to this thread. Could you give more detail on your use of a 'scope to evaluate cartridge setup? Regards, David | |
| Can I straighten an off-center twisted cantilever? Thanks again for all your support, from both sides of the "aisle" on this issue. I'm in the middle of a big push on a gigantic project. When I've finished, drunk my champagne and settled back to a less stressful life, I will compose myself, use th... | |
| Can I straighten an off-center twisted cantilever? Hello All, Thank you for your responses. To clarify: the Dynavector's cantilever is NOT BENT, it is straight as a die. It was twisted (rotated) around its center axis so the diamond is turned about 45 degrees from vertical; it now faces in the dir... | |
| Interface: Cartridge-Preamp or Cart-Tonearm? If I sense a theme, it would seem that money spent on the finest arm one can afford would be step one. The logic I infer from the thread is that a cartridge upgrade can always come later --as one learns how to fine tune the front end, and perhaps ... | |
| Music to soothe the mid-winter soul Hey, Dan_ed Agreed: Now you can see why I asked the question! Geez, folks, hibernation is one thing, but let's get our brains out of the deep freeze and share some music to warm the soul. Spin some tunes! let us know what gets you moving --or mov... |