chakster
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| Adding mass to a tonearm I bought various screws for my Reed 3p tonearm to add weight, because most vintage MM cartridges i have are too light, still usable, but the counterweight of the toneam is too close to the pivot, so those 12mm cartridge mounting thumb screws are 1... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? @audiolabyrinth your technics 1600mk2 comes with standard tonearm, same arm supplied with SL-1200/1210mk2. Avoid the cartridges with very high compliance (over 30cu) or add kab fluid damper to the tonearm. Also avoid low compliance heavy cartridge... | |
| ZYX Ultimate with carbon fiber cantilevers -- listener reviews? Mehran @sorasound is really is a great guy to do business with. No regrets. that's for sure | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? @dgarretson I’m not so sure about that. I removed the stock switch box from under my PD444 and substituted a thick, dense wenge wood subplinth that projects forward as a subplinth for a third tonearm mounted to a Micro Seiki brass tonearm board. ... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? @audiolabyrinth not sure which video are you talking about, but i hope you already checked Ortofon Concorde or Tonar Banana. Those cartridges are nothing special, i would say they are very bad cartridges in terms of sound quality. It’s a nonsence ... | |
| ZYX Ultimate with carbon fiber cantilevers -- listener reviews? @jjss49 i hope you know than R100 is an old model, lower that R1000 Airy 3 and way different from the Premium 4D. I doubt it can beat the ART-9, even my ART-2000 was as good or even better than more expensive R1000 Airy3. instead of the old ZYX yo... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Running my LUX PD444 with Lustre 801 and Sony PUA-7. Practically this superheavy deck with various arm-bases is close to ideal, imo. No need to think about plinth and whatever tonearm (or two) can be mounted. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? @rauliruegas seems like SONY used their own geometry on PUA-7 tonearm, it's way off the Baerwald, Lofgren or Stevenson when it's dead on to their own protractor supplied with the arm by SONY. Anybody knows what is that and how to live with it? The... | |
| ZYX Ultimate with carbon fiber cantilevers -- listener reviews? @unchilled I've owned low output copper Premium 4D with silver base for some time, it was step-up from my silver coil Zyx Airy. On Live18 shell with dedicated pre-preamp (Zyx CPP-1) they were good on Technics EPA-100 tonearm. But after a few year... | |
| ZYX Ultimate with carbon fiber cantilevers -- listener reviews? @don_c55 ZYX has lost customers over the last several years. Why do you think so? | |
| Grado cartridges still worth the money? @luna I have posted something about my experience with Joseph Grado Signature model (the Grado XTZ) in MM thread. It's wonderful cartridge, rare, but still under $1000 if you will find one. It was $750 in the 80s and i doubt their new models can b... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? There is only one turntable in Technics catalog released in unique wrinkle black finish (special surface treatment of the aluminum die-casting) is Technics SP-20 from 1976. In 1982 their top of the line EPA-100mk2 tonearm was released also in ... | |
| DIY phono loading plugs question @wcheng2 The formula for parallel resistors is: R = (R1xR2) / (R1+R2). If R1 is 47K and R2 (your plug in resistor) is 100R, then multiply the two. You will get a large value. Next step, add R1 and R2. You will get a much smaller value. Now divide... | |
| What is the "best" cartridge a Technics 1210... Never had any problems with MC on SL1210mk2, my last MC cartridge tested on that deck was Audio-Technica ART2000, i think i even tried Zyx Airy, but at that time i had much better turntable and tonearm. Anyway i have never experienced any noise in... | |
| What is the "best" cartridge a Technics 1210... I'm fine with stock PSU and stock matt on those decks, i just stopped all the mods of 1210mk2 after full rewire, isonoe feets, fluid damper and various top of the line vintage MM cartridges like Technics EPC-205c mk4, 100c mk3, Glanz MF61, Grace F... |