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| Best mat choices for high mass metal turntables? Look for a mat which does match the vinyl record's material as close as possible. Make sure to get an extremely thin adhesive tape both sides and stick the mat firmly onto the surface of the platter. Just placing a mat on any turntable platter wit... | |
| Klyne 7PX question Hi Dover, ask Syntax or Solong. Both are VERY familiar with the Klyne and do have all dip (gain etc.) settings - including the one (highest gain possible) which is NOT featured in the manual. | |
| Upgrade from TW Acustic Raven AC-3 to what? Using a rim drive will make all efforts for minimizing outside vibration coming towards the platter and thus towards the tracking process obsolete in one single move. | |
| Upgrade from TW Acustic Raven AC-3 to what? Dover - as for the inevitable knot in threads (unless to melt certain special material together). I observed that if the knot is made in a special way, it moves onto the outside of the circle and won't interfere with pulley nor platter anymore. I ... | |
| VPI Super Scoutmaster/SME Sorry - not a SME. All I did was mounting a FR-66s 12" tonearm on a Super Scoutmaster w/2 (two) HRX motor drives, double isolated platter (sandwich construction 4" high) isolated by liquid and spindle from bearing) and mounting dome w/MS clone arm... | |
| Upgrade from TW Acustic Raven AC-3 to what? Siltskin, I couldn't even recommend you following my advise. Neither in selecting the main course nor in high-end audio. Extremely expensive, not on the manual at all but special ordered, very special spices and only for the very educated and seas... | |
| Upgrade from TW Acustic Raven AC-3 to what? That is the problem and the core misunderstanding between applied physics and taste. A mix-up or inherent error often happening in Audio. Many discussions in audio thought to be about technical or physical issues are in fact about taste, believe a... | |
| Upgrade from TW Acustic Raven AC-3 to what? Mosin,there are many parts in the audio chain. With some of them "quality" can not be judged "objective" in any way, but is a matter of synergy or "taste". Well, a turntable may be a mysterious machine to some. The drive method - and you got me wr... | |
| Upgrade from TW Acustic Raven AC-3 to what? I do prefer thread drive with calculated slippage over idler wheel and direct drive. This allows me to use the platter mass (static mass.... ) I want and know to be essential to go past the frontiers and I get an extremely constant (by using extre... | |
| 9", 10" or 12" tonearms Indeed - a great thread which will nicely illustrate the inner truth in Syntax' most recent comment here.Highly recommended to everyone looking for insight into "the game".. | |
| Upgrade from TW Acustic Raven AC-3 to what? Yes, the "camp two" is considerably smaller. You may add to that short list the big Micro Seikis, Final Audio, Epic and Melcos of decades past. Than the german Apolyt from the 90ies with so far 15 units built and featuring the most extreme and mos... | |
| 9", 10" or 12" tonearms Lets not forget the fact, that the majority of all plinth turntables can NOT accommodate tonearms with an effective length greater than 10" (even the VPI 12.x and Kuzma 4Point tonearms do use a 9-10" mounting distance with off-center bearing locat... | |
| Upgrade from TW Acustic Raven AC-3 to what? Dear Aoliviero, the Studer capstans I worked and work with are all AC. In this model it is all about constant speed of the motor spindle/pulley/flywheel.I see your point. A motor trying to compensate slippage by altering speed is of course a contr... | |
| Upgrade from TW Acustic Raven AC-3 to what? Dear Lewm, well - as I mentioned before - there are many audiophiles and "audio scientists" out there who do favor direct drive or idler drive in turntables ( both principles do build on the idea of "control" and the motor and its quality has a hu... | |
| Upgrade from TW Acustic Raven AC-3 to what? Dear Aoliverio, while I will not question the ranking you have listed, I would nevertheless like to mention, that it too depends on the transmission (belt, string, tape - whatever). Introducing a low grip string/thread with a certain "amount" of "... |