chakster
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| Critical oppositions made using inadequate equipment. There are many cheap mass market products on the market, for example an entry level turntables or speakers, but when it comes to analog playback you can hear the difference upgrading just a cartridge (read above). Of course if you will start from ... | |
| Tell about your experience with your old Audio-Technica SL-1200s.. It’s not necessary to stay with Technics, but if you want to keep the cost lower than new G then SP-10 mk2 and EPA-100 tonearm is the way to go, you need at least ‘10.5 inch (or longer) tonearm for SP-10 mk2. You can look for ‘12 inch Thomas Schic... | |
| Tell about your experience with your old Audio-Technica SL-1200s.. All KAB mod, except for external power supply, is pretty cheap mod, I did it myself with better parts (cardas wires for tonearm, zu audio mission phono cable, isonoe feet). I removed KAB fluid dampers, they are not necessary if the compliance of t... | |
| Critical oppositions made using inadequate equipment. Is it really possible to critically estimate tt or cartridge characteristics using for example cheap monitor speakers or other weak component in the system ? If what you call "cheap monitor speakers" are professional studio monitors (near field mo... | |
| Possible Cartridge Suspension Collapse? Then you should know that AT (ART1000) was Technics official cartridge for a demo of their reference class tonearm and turntable on audio shows. | |
| Technics or Kuzma turntable. Buy SP-10R and if you don’t like it sell it to me with huge discount :) | |
| Tell about your experience with your old Audio-Technica SL-1200s.. Sure they will, you are talking about $400 old Technics (still available at this price) versus $4000 new Technics with completely different motor and superior tonearm and cabinet. No questions that G is simply different class of turntables. | |
| Best vintage DD turntables from the 70's and 80's? To use all of them you will have to make a carousel around tt-101 , lol @knollbrentTook 11 month at JP’s lab | |
| Possible Cartridge Suspension Collapse? I was actually considering the ART9XI, but the resonance calcs for my setup put it at just *under* 7Hz. Did you convert 100Hz to 10Hz before you made any calculations? The compliance measured at 100Hz: 15 x 10-6 cm/dyne (100 Hz) In reality at 10Hz... | |
| Trying to Help My Nephew With His First Venture Into High End Audio Your nephew is young, why don’t you advice him something modern instead of a belt drive Sota turntable for pensioners? :) Technics SL1200GR (or G) is much better choice for 33 y.o. guy. Almost any MM or MI carts are fine for Technics magnesium ton... | |
| Daily Record cleaning I prefer to buy records in perfect condition, so I clean them ONLY when I can here there is something to clean that I can’t see. For over 25 years I use carbon fiber brush each time before I put the needle on the record. I use Onzow and dry stylus... | |
| tonearm cable, do you need one? The difference between phono cable and interconnect cable is SHIELD , not a ground wire. Do you understand why 99% phono cables are shielded? The signal from phono cartridge (especially MC) is much lower than line level signal from any other compo... | |
| Technics or Kuzma turntable. Definitely SP-10R, this brand served audiophiles and industry professionals with SP-10 mk2 series since the ‘70s and those models like SP10 mk2 and mk3 are still very popular (used). You can’t go wrong with new SP-10R ! It can be your last DD driv... | |
| Do small preamp tubes 12ax7 need to be matched? You can "use" a 12AT7 to replace a 12AX7, in that the pin connections of the two tube types are identical, but that would be far from ideal. The 12AT7 has less gain, a lower plate resistance, and a higher transconductance compared to a 12AX7. ... | |
| Up grade to a new turntable Technics tonearm has VTA on the fly, Lustre tonearm has VTA on the fly, Ikeda tonearms with B60 has VTA on the fly, Reed 3p tonearm has VTA and azimuth on the fly. Those are my favorite tonearms. VTA on the fly is great feature when you swap cartr... |