dgarretson
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| How to remove a 'press fit' steel ball bearing? In automotive applications it usually takes some serious heat from an oxycetelene torch to release frozen studs and pressed fittings-- certainly more than butane or map gas. If the spindle is all metal you might get away with it.The noninverted VP... | |
| New Teres Direct Drive Motor Available as Option "A given motor speed and torque in the rim drive system may have a range of platter weight that works best with that given motor. Then again, it could be testament to how well these heavier platters with mylar belts actually work."I'd like to hear... | |
| New Teres Direct Drive Motor Available as Option Dan_ed,Somewhere in this thread it's reported that in testing, Verus rim drive produced the greatest improvement in combination with the lightest Teres platter. It would seem that with rim drive (as with idler drive), high platter mass might actua... | |
| New Teres Direct Drive Motor Available as Option Jean,I think I understand your comparison of idler drive to belt drive, but I'm lost in your comparison of idler to Verus rim drive.I would think the comparison of rim drive to idler drive boils down to the relative compliance of the interface bet... | |
| Merlin Fan's-What VSM is best bang for buck???? Can't understand from your writing if near-field listening is or is not desireable for you. In any case, the VSM wants at least 9' to the listening position. | |
| Review: Machina dynamica Brilliant Pebbles Tweak "a bad spend"-- now that describes a very guilty pleasure. | |
| Is the RAM Modified Esound E5 the REAL THING? It's impossible to generalize about the effect of replacing clocks across disparate players. | |
| What is new with the Memory Player? There was Behold amplification with the Memory Player & the Scaenas at HE2007. Unfortunately I didn't understand at that time that the Memory Player was a transport only. | |
| What is new with the Memory Player? At HE2007 the Memory Player in combination with the Scaena arrays had the rare combination of treble sweetness with fine detail & extension, and dynamic authority on top of dead-calm relaxation. Less rolled off than Zanden, and less agressive ... | |
| Why does this old tube gear sound so good? It's been speculated that transformers continue to improve through decades of aging. | |
| Artists 'SELLING OUT' - can we discuss? Kudos to Tom Waits for suing that car company for ripping off his singing style. But in the end it's really more a question of "when" rather than "if" almost any popular song will be used to sell soap, Starbucks, or maybe botox or motorized wheelc... | |
| New Teres Direct Drive Motor Available as Option Pauly,I think it's unfortunate to critique business issues that are premature and distract from consideration of the Verus motor as an engineered product that arrives at a timely moment in TT design.Recent evolution in TT design seems to have most... | |
| New Teres Direct Drive Motor Available as Option Doug,Thanks for suggesting a fly fisherman's blood knot. Now the thread runs smooth & quiet. Using this type of knot it's pretty much impossible to make two threads of identical length in order to run multiple threads. But a single thread work... | |
| New Teres Direct Drive Motor Available as Option Pauly,Thankfully, market forces in this cottage industry are quite different from banking, and time-value-of-money calculations are mostly irrelevant. Perhaps the hedge fund crowd would do better to maximize utility & profit margins all down t... | |
| New Teres Direct Drive Motor Available as Option Doug,While waiting for Verus I am considering adapting tape drive to the VPI TNT by machining new pulleys for motor & flywheel. In order to prevent tape crawl, would cutting 1/2" channels into the pulleys be desireable? What is the best materi... |