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| Direct Drive turntables You want to measure stylus drag ? No problem and very easy to perform at home with little more than 5 cent material and 15 minutes time.BTW, my comment: "stylus drag - while still kind of a nebulous issue - is best addressed by securely clamping" ... | |
| Direct Drive turntables Well Raul, sure I am talking in my posts - otherwise they wouldn't exist - but certainly not to the length you are going to. What I have mentioned in my last post are issues and matters which should - due to their simplicity and plain objectivity ... | |
| Direct Drive turntables Inherent speed stability is one of the indisputable side-benefits of high inertia (i.e. high platter mass - raw mass....).Stylus drag - while still kind of a nebulous issue - is best addressed by securely clamping, pressing (by means of clamp (sic... | |
| Why is the price of new tonearms so high Well Jlin, you will certainly find a lot of people agreeing with you. I for one like to look at all things a bit closer than most others. So please excuse me if I come to some different results. I am used to find the errors in other peoples though... | |
| Direct Drive turntables Steve, agreed. My postulate for heavy mass in platters does include that these platters are composite materials which do dampen each individuals inherent resonance behavior. Metal (gun metal, aluminum, lead, stainless steel, copper - all do have t... | |
| DaVinci tonearm and azymuth One key problem of our present day existence as an audiophile and/or listener of recorded and reproduced music is, that throughout our life from early childhood onwards we are told and educated to trust our eyes only and to believe what is "writte... | |
| Direct Drive turntables Radicalsteve, if you include oil-pressure bearing in the same group as air-bearing I would agree with your conclusion (while I would direct slam, air and physical weight to other circumstances than the mere drive principle. | |
| Direct Drive turntables Stiltskin, I believe that a high mass (whatever high mass may mean in the individual case...) platter can be fitted only to a direct drive if the heart of the drive - motor and axis - is designed with the respective resulting inertia and pure vert... | |
| Direct Drive turntables And I absolutely agree with Lewm, T_bone and Johnnyb53 - dd tt's are and very important part of audio history and were THE record playback in disco, home audio and broadcast since the mid 70ies (and still are in 2 of the 3 places..).Plinth, suspen... | |
| Direct Drive turntables While I am certainly not an universal admirer of direct drive in TT-design, I nevertheless would like to give due credit to a highly underrated design of the late 1970ies and early 1980ies.Mitchell A. Cotters implementation of Technics dd (not tha... | |
| DaVinci tonearm and azymuth Dear Dougdeacon, - nice link. It works very well indeed. It does not cure the cancer either, but it surely will prolong life and restore its level ( of performance ) into the high 90 percentage. | |
| DaVinci tonearm and azymuth Lewm is right. Correct azimuth is in the very first an optimized geometrical position of the polished areas (NOT the mere stylus...) of your stylus vis-a-vis the two walls of the record groove. Lets further assume, that hardly any cartridge on ear... | |
| DaVinci tonearm and azymuth @Feickert: as I can see from your post, you haven't read my posts. Or didn't understand them. I didn't say that your software would "balance" the outputs at all. | |
| low output mc: noise free listening possible? Dear Mikelavigne, - just as a further information: the Lyra Olympos running in Syntax' system has far more output than 0.17mV. More likely 0.3 mV. Does the Olympos you own indeed feature less gain than your A90 ? I am really curious, as the 2 Olym... | |
| low output mc: noise free listening possible? Noise free LOMC phono source is possible if you divide the phono gain between transformer and phono stage. I do have the worst case scenario in my set-up: very low output MC with tubed phono stage and high sensitivity (really high - aside from hor... |