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| Fidelity Research cartridges Dear T_bone, no worries about the low source impedance of the FR-7 family carts. Some Kondo, Ortofon MC-5000 and many other low output MCs do have similar low impedances. However I strongly recommend using a low impedance matching step-up transfor... | |
| Are more turntable motors better? BTW - Dan_ed and Syntax are on the "right" path.The answer is quality.Not quantity.You wouldn't think about using multiple cheap motors for your car to improve its performance - you would go for the "big block".Same here.Quality may be much more e... | |
| Are more turntable motors better? Dear Kipdent, if you do change position of your HS-80 and put it on the right side of the RX-5000 - in mirror position of the RY-5500 - you will even be more astonished about the increase in overall sound quality. By doing so you will almost elimi... | |
| Mounting hole-to-stylus variation / tolerance Dear Berlinta, rest assured - I got from the 3 samples what was possible. I just wasn't impressed. That was not a problem of the respective set-up nor of my abilities. As for the sientific dispute and my non-reaction to your mathematical and physi... | |
| Mounting hole-to-stylus variation / tolerance Well, I for one are certainly not enthusiastic about his tonearms. They strongly remind me of the Linn Sondek. Good marketing, lots of word of mouth. I have mounted 3 cartridges in these tonearms and was never inpressed with the results. Overrated... | |
| Mounting hole-to-stylus variation / tolerance His profession is not making or servicing watches. His real life job is showing visitors the german parlament - the Reichstag. He is a tourist guide in real life. | |
| Tracking error distortion audibility Genesis168, the Denessen Soundtraktor has only one grid/one point for alignment. | |
| Tracking error distortion audibility Dear Siniy123, I absolutely agree with you. With classical music however the mastering engineer has no choice, but to put the tracks where they belong. As most of the big climax in classical (especially of course symphonic music...) music are at t... | |
| What is best VTA for Clearaudio Maestro Cartridge? Dear Jbcello, there is no such thing as a best VTA for a given cartridge. As the record companies never actually agreed on a reference cutting angle, there is a wide variation of optimum VTAs on the LPs we play. Many seasoned collectors of LPs fro... | |
| SME V arm: dynamic VTF or straight weight Dear Axel, the DL-103 is a very simple cartridge with a lousy body. There have been a number of body modifications in the past 30 years - some by Denon, some by others. There even are several lead-body DL-103 around.The compliance of the DL-103 is... | |
| SME V arm: dynamic VTF or straight weight Dear Peter, the SME V is VERY rigid and has good energy transmission. The PC-1 is not that heavy and the SME V is a 9" tonearm with fairly loss mass at the end of the lever (the armtube widens towards the bearing - very good to lower effective mov... | |
| SME V arm: dynamic VTF or straight weight Hi Axel, the resonance calculator is fine and will work fine AS LONG AS IT DOES NOT DEAL with cartridges of extra heavy weight and/or on tonearms with extra long (10 - 12" ) effective length.Why?Because the extra heavy body is on the extreme end o... | |
| SME V arm: dynamic VTF or straight weight Hi Axel, well - usually I did not get very sympathic comments here whenever I refered to math/geometry in analog playback set-up.Maths would tell the story here too, but I will put it in more general words:- the heavy cartridge body does add to th... | |
| SME V arm: dynamic VTF or straight weight Dear Axel, damping is always used to minimize the (always negative...) effects of unwanted vibrations sourced by resonance or torsion. Cartridge sourced vibrations are the result of too low compliance for the given effective mass of the tonearm. A... | |
| SME V arm: dynamic VTF or straight weight Dear Peter, Raul is right and I just want to add, that indeed you should work without damping. A tonearm which does need damping is mated with the "wrong" cartridge. Damping is used to solve resonance problems which have their roots in resonance f... |