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| Has anyone heard the Denon 103-SA? In respect of its lowest possible price on the market, DL-103SA is well-built, sturdy, stable, with excellent trackability, suitable for a wide variety of medium and medium-high mass tonearms, low in residual/surface noise, not too "nervous" on ol... | |
| Are linear tracking arms better than pivoted arms? Yes, Darkmoebius, Scheu with Conductor and Acoustic Solid with Ortofon but not vice versa. That was not supposed to be an official comparison for both arm designs(not solely for that purpose). However, that's the closest comparison we could have a... | |
| Are linear tracking arms better than pivoted arms? Amendment: I did try another cart, Dyna Te Kaitora II, with Conductor II air-bearing arm...sorry for the mistake.Dan | |
| Are linear tracking arms better than pivoted arms? >>Has anyone compared recent linear and pivot tonearms on a 2-arm TT at the same time w/ the same cartridge for an A/B comparison? What did you notice?<<Yes, we did as follows:Basically in the same system, except the TTs, Scheu Das Lau... | |
| Are linear tracking arms better than pivoted arms? In terms of trackability and distortions, not neccesary.In terms of sonic performance, not neccesary.I am inclined to think an air-bearing linear arm could sound better than a DC-servo one. There are some good designs during the past few years. Dan | |
| ZYX R-1000 Series Omega-S Aesthetix Io Sig. and AR Ref 2 MkII, wonderful!!!Yes, "no breaks from cart leads to output jacks" is a real good idea! Especially for LOMCs, their minute signals are very sensitive to impedance changes, whether it is inside or outside the carts. Dan | |
| ZYX R-1000 Series Omega-S Nice carts, Jwm.Actually I was planning to buy a UNIverse...now you know the final choice. What's the phono amp or SUT you are using now? What's the loading impedance selected for your ZYX R-1000 Airy? Silver high output(with 8-ohm internal impeda... | |
| ZYX R-1000 Series Omega-S Which model of your R-1000 series? Copper(-X), Silver(-S) or Gold(-G)? Yes, I am in for a surprise;)Dan | |
| ZYX R-1000 Series Omega-S My opinions, which shouldn't be binding for everyone in any system, are as follows:Due to its low output and low internal impedance, a high quality phono stage and special attention on impedance loading is of utmost importance. Though its trackabi... | |
| VTF and VTA- Constant or not? I also have a list like Dertonarm's, though self generated and a bit half-assed.To me, Doug, absolutely "Not". You are a real vinyl enthusiast! And it's nothing to do with how high pricey your equipments are. I will try to experiment your "mistrac... | |
| VTF and VTA- Constant or not? ...the correct VTF in a given cartridge defines the correct position of the cantilever (= the coils in the magnetic field) towards the magnet(s) and that the correct SRA/VTA is always a matter of the position of the polished area of the stylus tow... | |
| VTF and VTA- Constant or not? Hi, Doug, The only "proof" we require is that instruments and voices sound as real as possible.Very good point. We can only be sure when a piano sounds like a piano, a cymbal sounds like a cymbal, and vocals sounds like somebody is singing live in... | |
| VTF and VTA- Constant or not? Agreed that everything we try to improve is for the sake of our own ears. My query was in fact triggered off when I played my old DGG Karajan's Beethoven Symphony No.5 and some of my beloved records. They used to be sounding very good and lively b... | |
| Shelter owners using SUT - share observations? Hi, FrankCIn my opinion, MY Sonic Lab Ultra Eminent BC is a very good LOMC cart(but there's no "perfect" cart or stuff like that...) and could compete with the best cart designs on the market if used with matching gears...just a bit more demanding... | |
| Shelter owners using SUT - share observations? Hi, Pureretro. The "nominal" DC resistance of a stock Shelter 901 is 14 ohms and recommended load impedances are <20 ohms(with SUT) and <100 ohms(with MC phono stage)according to its manual. In my system, 10-20 ohms SUT(e.g.Phase Tech T-3, 2... |