chakster
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| Why According to some Turntable extremists Pitch Control and Direct Drive is Sacrilege? @has2be I don’t care about belt drives, it’s a priori inferior technology. There is a belt with compliance, low torque .. this is what i never liked. This is enough for me to ignore this technology forever. No single belt drive can give me what a ... | |
| JVC MC1 Moving Coil Cartridge - Heritage? I have zero respect for JVC after a horrendous experience with one of their products that never worked properly What was that? Your jvc VHS camera ? | |
| Why According to some Turntable extremists Pitch Control and Direct Drive is Sacrilege? @kps25sc I owned a Nakamichi TT for years, direct drive made as good as the Japanese could make them back then. Tried several arms, including a Forsell linear air bearing arm, it never sounded really good. Which one? Probably The Dragon CT ?Bec... | |
| Why According to some Turntable extremists Pitch Control and Direct Drive is Sacrilege? If a direct drive sounds brittle to one persons ears and pleasing to another......it’s why we have choices for our own tastes, and not just for the zealots of one drive choice. Do you compare different turntables with the same tonearm/cartridg... | |
| JVC MC1 Moving Coil Cartridge - Heritage? @nandric i think you can’t go wrong with Toroidal Silver SUT like Luxman, the price is more than reasonable (imo). For my cartridge i don’t need 8020 (40 Ohm), but i have 8025 and 8030 to cover everything. I never tried Denon SUT you have, so you ... | |
| How do tell when my stylus is too much worn? @captain_winters Stanton 881S with D81 Stereohedron stylus. As you know those stylus are no longer being produced so I was lucky to get a low hour example. As your paper points out VTF contributes to stylus wear, amazingly enough the Stanton hig... | |
| JVC MC1 Moving Coil Cartridge - Heritage? Digging for the specs of my Victor gear i've noticed something that i missed before. The material of the armtube of my Victor UA-7082 is aluminum-magnesium-silicon alloy, not just an aluminum as i expected. Strength is three times that of conventi... | |
| Why According to some Turntable extremists Pitch Control and Direct Drive is Sacrilege? I guess we can add platter mat like gunmetal Micro Seiki CU180 or CU-500 on the platter to change the weight, also a record weight like Micro ST-10 on top. Then we can compare the sound with ot without mats/weight. It's not necessary to change the... | |
| How do tell when my stylus is too much worn? I think it’s pretty easy to compare used cartridge to a new cartridge (or rarely used one), i have multiple samples of the same cartridges. First thing to do is A/B test in the headphones, i have two identical turntables with two identical tonearm... | |
| Name Your Top 5 Most Musical Dynamic Sounding Tonearms of All time? Here is my mid priced top 3 vintage tonearms i've been using on decks like Technics SP-10mkII, SP-20, and later on my Luxman PD-444 (with 20 different cartridges from MM/MI/MF to LOMC). | |
| Can we finally put Reel to Reel out of its misery? Put it to rest people. @sleepwalker65 Chakster you probably can’t find your rap on R2R, but sound quality was never a requirement for rap anyhow. Oh, it’s you again with your favorite topic. Sound Quality is a requirement for any genre of music even for a "grandpa cou... | |
| Can we finally put Reel to Reel out of its misery? Put it to rest people. @uberwalts you really need to check out Ebay for reel-to-reel tapes there’s more than you think out there @uberwalts you really need to check out Ebay for reel-to-reel tapes there’s more than you think out there There are no reel to reel tapes wit... | |
| Plinth ideas for DENON PD-80 DD turntable @lohanimal Hey, regarding my Denon DP-80 i am happy and surprised by the quality and weight of the original Denon DK-300 plinth (about 15kg) with dust cover. This design is great. I will stick to this plinth for some time for sure. As for the Vic... | |
| Can we finally put Reel to Reel out of its misery? Put it to rest people. I have been using reel to reel since this last december and have only managed to destroy one $8 tape (which I cannot find a duplicate of...ugh). But other than that i prefer it to handling vinyl. Everything seems to affect vinyl playback--everythi... | |
| Plinth ideas for DENON PD-80 DD turntable I am getting the TT101 serviced but thankfully have a QL10 base - I'm wondering if that plinth is actually any good. @lohanimal Interesting, who's responsible for servicing ?I have two TT101 Searched for TT101 plinth ideas i've come across inte... |