ddriveman
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| Cartridges better than Colibri XGP? Raul, Mike,I have an AudioCraft AC4000 Unipivot tonearm with 3 different arm wands from Medium to light mass. Now, the AC4000 has adjustable silicone oil damping on its unipivot. Do you think this arm is a good match for the Colibri, especially if... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Lewm & Dgarretson,Many thanks for your responses to my post on grounding and external tonearm wiring. I think I know how to proceed now. Also, I have similar experience as pointed out by Dgarretson with "hum" on my AudioCraft AC4000 tonearm. W... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Hi Guys,When running an external wire on the tonearm, how do you handle the grounding wire? Do you just have the typical ground wire (the fifth wire) just attached to the tonearm body or shoudl we have a shield around the 4 cartrigde wiures runnin... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Hi Wm57,Seems like you have a lateral balance problem with your tonearm and the Empire 4000. Some tonearms like the Fidelity Research FR64/66 and the AudioCraft 3000/4000 provide a balance weight just to eliminate this problem. Check to see if you... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Raul, DGOB et all,Wondering what stylus force you guys are using on the Tehcnics EPC-P100Cmk4, Azden YM50ZVL and the Andante P76. Especailly for the Andate since my sample does not have a spec sheet at all. | |
| Micro Seiki MA-505X II vs. MA-505 II I think the X version uses silver wires in the tonearm. | |
| Glanz moving magnet cartridges Dgob,What do you think of the Glanz MFG71E? | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Raul,I have a used Technics EPC-P205Mk3 coming. This is a P mount. So should be able to compare to my EPC-P100Mk4. But maybe both of them needs VdH upgrade? But I will only compare seriously once I get the 3160. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Lewm,For your L0-7D, do you use RFI and EMI sheets between the platter and the mat as suggest on the L-07D website? | |
| What Step-up transformers are best value? Lutenist,I have tried resistor loading on the secondary side of the Silk transformers. The best write up on this is in the Bent Audio Forum. Have not tried loading on the primary. I find that loading on the secondary can help. But my preference is... | |
| What Step-up transformers are best value? I highly recommend the SoundTradition Live! MC-10. Costs about US$990. Here is the website: http://www.obsinc-products.com/servlet/Categories?category=MC+Step-Up+Units.Its th best I have heard and is quite a bit better than the Cinemag CMQEE-3440A... | |
| The pivoted arm experiment is over Dertonarm, LewmI too agree that lifting of tt is not prefereble and for me, I cannot even lift my Galibier Gavis TT since it is almost 100lbs. But I was referring to the FR64/66 manual which recommends lifting the front of the TT to check for late... | |
| The pivoted arm experiment is over Dertonarm,If lifting the TT is wrong as shown in the FR64/66 manual, then what would you suggest please. | |
| The pivoted arm experiment is over Lewm,Actually, for lateral weight adjustments, you are suppose to tilt the turntable backwards i.e. lift the front of the turntable. This would avoid interfering with the arm rest. This is explained in the FR64/66 manual. If the turntable is very ... | |
| The pivoted arm experiment is over Hiho,Actually the FR64s is a 10inch arm (245mm effective length). Ikeda-san himself has a writeup that says anything less than 10" is not favoured by him. And I agree that the 12" arm and the FR66s would have reduced tracking distrotions compared ... |