chakster
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| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? @lewm i rarely seen BA mats, when i tried to buy from BA direct it was sold out and you know it was many years ago. I hope that teamed up with Sakura they made something better, because it is not just a re-issue of BA-2 or BA-1. Compared to SAEC t... | |
| KISEKI PURPLE NS your reviews.... One of the reason @edgewear is that some important parts produced 30 years ago are not the same (or don't even exists today). And since you're not a re-tipper yourself you never know. I never owned Kiseki, so i can't comment on this particular bra... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? So since the thickness of the Mat2 is no problem for me on either of two turntables where I use Mat2s, why would you say the new product is "better" than the Mat2, when even the manufacturer claims it is only "identical" in performance? @lewm I s... | |
| Should I buy a VPI SCOUTMASTER. I OWN 25 RECORDS. Buy without cartridge, ortofon Red is nothing special, you can buy cartridge yourself, a good one, not what you will get for free with the table | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? I hardly think the SS300 is the second best mat of all time, if the SOTA mat you reference were to be the named best of all time. But you’ve made your own opinion clear. Like I said about my own current preference, the BA Mat2 is generally a smidg... | |
| Should I buy a VPI SCOUTMASTER. I OWN 25 RECORDS. With exception of Soundsmith carts, the typical replacement stylus for an MM/MI cart is 80% the cost of the cartridge. @helomech just check Peter's interview and he said at 17:00 here SoundSmith cartridges will be rebuild ONLY for 20% of the co... | |
| KISEKI PURPLE NS your reviews.... @uberwaltz Yes, coils repair can be very difficult, i remember peter Ledermann mentioned this problem in his interview. It's about coil re-winding in the worst scenario.But in your situation it could be just soldering together a broken wire? | |
| Best cartridge for very old worn vinyl You can’t adjust overhang on cartridges like SPU or FR7 series, because they are headshell integrated (as one piece). The overhang is fixed by the manufacturer and you can;t altering the stylus position without altering PS of your arm. Pivot to Sp... | |
| KISEKI PURPLE NS your reviews.... my conclusions come from my experience, my cartridges didn't sing after partial retip, but poeple need to get top hifi to hear the difference. I had to retip a benz LPS a few month ago, ALL retipping services answer me the same thing " we don't ... | |
| Should I buy a VPI SCOUTMASTER. I OWN 25 RECORDS. Most of the advises here is like "buy whatever cartridge and turntable, they are all good" (even if it’s very low quality gear, weak belt drive motor, dirt cheap phonostages, unipivot tonearm or entry level cartridges).there was a similar thread b... | |
| Best cartridge for very old worn vinyl Yes, Feickert is good to have for any situation.First lock the PS distance recommended by tonearm manufacturer, then you will see that your FR7 or SPU will reach Stevenson point (step-1), for the step-2,3 you can rotate the protractor on the platt... | |
| Best cartridge for very old worn vinyl With same PS distance you can use 3 different alignmet methods by moving/twisting a cartridge in the headshell slots. Feickert protractor will give you Stevenson, Baerwald or Loefgren. Read more here. With FR7 series or SPU you have to stick to th... | |
| LP made from a digital master recording... I took this image in analog studio in Helsinki in 2004 on 35mm film. The way it used to be when you’re in analog studio. You can’t imitate STUDER digitally, live music must be recorded this way (on tape, multi-track) then vinyl release is a pure m... | |
| Should I buy a VPI SCOUTMASTER. I OWN 25 RECORDS. With exception of Soundsmith carts, the typical replacement stylus for an MM/MI cart is 80% the cost of the cartridge. Some of his MI cartridges does not have user replaceable styli. It is factory replaceable, but still at the lowest cost compared... | |
| LP made from a digital master recording... This is easy to compareMaybe for same reasons some people use digital playback with Tube Amps or Preamps instead of Class D digital amps. |