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| Graham Phantom Supreme? Rockitman, please - don't get me wrong. Aside from increased effective mass a longer effective length version is always superior in terms of tangential error and sensibility to SRA/VTA variation due to the inevitable hills and valley on every LP.I... | |
| TW-Acustic Raven 10.5 or DaVinci Grandezza?? Dear Lewm, of course you wouldn't fix a non-plane parallel to platter armboard with azimuth. But there are enough audiophile who do - by error. I was referring to this because I have found many situations with "azimuth corrected" cartridges which ... | |
| Kuzma 4Point Tri-Planar Maybe they have and that's the reason why the sacked the Space Shuttle program .... | |
| TW-Acustic Raven 10.5 or DaVinci Grandezza?? Dear Dover, agreed - level of both platter and tonearm board is an issue in a good portion of turntables. As we are dealing with pretty "small" (quantified in relative ..;-) ..) forces in tonearm alignment, full plane horizontal level is mandatory... | |
| TW-Acustic Raven 10.5 or DaVinci Grandezza?? Coming back to the universal acceptance of faulty produced cartridges - i.e. cartridges with a stylus not 90° dead center.If any one reading this thread has had the experience lately ( the last years ...) that he/she/it bought a cartridge new in t... | |
| Graham Phantom Supreme? Rockitman, Wrm57, the 10" arm wand was - as the 12" arm wand - Graham's reaction to market request. Indeed you will have a hard time mounting a 9" Phantom (or any other 9" pivot) when the platter diameter exceeds 320 mm or when using an outer ring... | |
| Graham Phantom Supreme? Rockitman, I usually always would go for lowest tracking error - i.e. 12" effective length or more - even at the sacrifice of increased effective mass.But with the Graham Phantom this is a different issue and the 9" is the "best" arm wand out of t... | |
| TW-Acustic Raven 10.5 or DaVinci Grandezza?? Dear Measel, you asked me between the Phantom and Grandezza - and made your decision based on looks.Which is perfectly fine and the Grandezza is a nice tonearm with very aesthetic looks.I recommended the DaVinci Grandezza here under different cond... | |
| TW-Acustic Raven 10.5 or DaVinci Grandezza?? Sorry for the typo ...;-) ... glad the message still arrived. | |
| Graham Phantom Supreme? Dear Lewm, dear Rockitman, - I can't resist, but I now have to second Syntax' choice for the 9" arm wand. While I am certainly usually try to go for increased effective length, the 9" standard arm wand is the best for the Graham Phantom.Why ?I lea... | |
| TW-Acustic Raven 10.5 or DaVinci Grandezza?? Dear Dover, thank you for the kind comment. I must admit, that the positive correspondence with Audiogoners far outnumbers - and out-weights the unimportant negative feedback and insults by people whom - based on their style as well as their appar... | |
| TW-Acustic Raven 10.5 or DaVinci Grandezza?? Dear Lewm, these shots aren't digitalised yet, but I will try my best and send you a few shots by PM in a few days.And - oh, yes ... you will clearly see disproportional wear on one of the stylus.BTW - due to "azimuth adjustment" ......No, I can't... | |
| TW-Acustic Raven 10.5 or DaVinci Grandezza?? Dear Wrm57, no, anti-skating is necessary - depending on the cartridge, stylus shape, compliance and VTF, geometry of tonearm and effective length of tonearm and thus resulting off-set.There are tonearm/cartridge combinations where anti-skating in... | |
| TW-Acustic Raven 10.5 or DaVinci Grandezza?? Kdl, see - I am a pacifist and practicing martial arts since 30 years.Is this a contradiction and does it mean preaching one thing and doing the other?If something is beyond one's capability one shouldn't try to judge.I have incorporated azimuth a... | |
| TW-Acustic Raven 10.5 or DaVinci Grandezza?? Dear Lbelchev, you will be surprised, but again the key problem is reading.Perrew asked for my opinion what constitutes a good tonearm. I said above the DaVinci sounds good (if aligned exactly) and that it does represent a better value ( particula... |