dgarretson
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| Help for a vinyl novice Consider a Technics SL1200 direct drive table. Web search on the various SL1200 modification services(KAB, Zu Audio, Applied Fidelity, others.) This gives you a solid platform for future upgrades to a very high level of performance, and lots of fu... | |
| Linear tracking tonearms..... Peterayer, awhile back I queried AA on this point w/r to my Trans-Fi linear arm. Bottom line is that with a linear arm small shifts off zenith are audible at degrees of error that are well below a conventional pivot arm across the arc of an LP. ht... | |
| DAC with ESS Sabre chip, volume, XLR+RCA simult. The Exasound looks interesting, however I see nothing in the spec to suggest that it is dual mono. Moreover, subdividing a stereo Sabre chip for multichannel mode reduces its absolute performance. FWIW, I have tried the 9018 Sabre in stereo and du... | |
| DAC with ESS Sabre chip, volume, XLR+RCA simult. The Twisted Pear Buffalo IIISE does all of that, but you need to assemble the DIY kit and add a chassis. | |
| Stillpoints Ultra SS under your speakers? When used with the optional Ultra base, should the Ultra SS and Ultra 5 be tightly screwed into the base or unscrewed 1/4 turn(as is recommended when the Ultras are mounted directly into speakers)?When attached directly to an MDF speaker and unscr... | |
| Hot Tuna "S/T" It's all good. Seeing them live in January with Leon Russell. | |
| Neil Young "Live at the Cellar Door" The co-star is the 9' Steinway grand and the intimacy of the small venue. A worthwhile performance and well recorded. | |
| Neil Young "Live at the Cellar Door" I ordered Massey Hall LP yesterday and will let you know. | |
| Neil Young "Live at the Cellar Door" One pass through the LP impresses with the freshness of the performance and overall SQ. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Hello all, a Technics SL-1000 MkII with original Obsidian plinth and EPA-100 tonearm is on the way to me. This may have come up earlier in the thread, but what is your opinion of the quality level of the EPA-100 relative to more modern tonearms, p... | |
| Melos MA220 tube phono stage Lew, IIRC the owner/repairman of that operation died and thereafter the customer equipment remaining on-site evaporated. I believe it was called "Melos Audio Restoration" and was unaffiliated with the original Melos. I had a nice MA333G that fortu... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners Hello Harold, I hope some day to compare an ET to my Trans-Fi-- maybe when I find space to set up the VPI TNT and Kenwood L-07D side by side. Squeezing two linear arms onto one turntable wouldn't leave space for an LP... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners Chris, Trans-Fi needs only a 4 psi aquarium pump, smoothing tank(s), and a good brass needle regulator. No need for an evaporator tank, given the small 2-3 psi differential between the pump and the tonearm. One may be tempted to think of it as a p... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners I would think that the favorable qualities of a captured air bearing in this application are maximum bearing stiffness(a function of air pressure) and minimal air turbulence(a function of air velocity through the bearing and surface friction.) The... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners To clarify, I mean to say that at LOW pressures approaching the threshold of mistracking, the bass comes up and musical presence improves. |