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| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Acman3, Good to have your update on Precept. At 20 hours my experience with 220/550ML accords with yours, except that at winter temperatures in this old house I need around 1.5gm VTF to get good tracking on Trans-Fi arm. The Precept has an almost ... | |
| Gone are the days of the great audition. While brick and mortar retailing has shrunk, an increasing number of regional audio shows is taking up some of the slack. Try Capital Audiofest in Maryland in July or The New York Audio show in April. | |
| Trans Fi Salvation direct rim drive turntable Spirit, I am not so surprised by the general lack of interest expressed in the "Trans-Fi approach." The marketing for Salvation, limited as it is to word-of-mouth, is co-joined with marketing of Terminator arm. I'm hoping that the appeal of Salvat... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners Nandric, Absent direct experience with Terminator, your remark would seem to be a good example of what psychologists call the false consensus effect. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? The Precept 220 body with NOS 550ML stylus now has five hrs on Trans-Fi linear tonearm and modified ARC PH-2 phono stage loaded at 100K. My wife, a jaded observer of windmill fighting, says it sounds "big and buttery" in a good way. Beck's Sea Cha... | |
| Kuzma Four Point compared to SME V-12 tonearm My apologies, the plain-jane exterior of the formidable Stabi TT had me confused. | |
| Kuzma Four Point compared to SME V-12 tonearm I've heard the 4PT at several shows-- with performance varying from average to superb. The best so far was as personally set up and demoed by Franc Kuzma at CES. He demoed the 4PT on a redesigned Stabi Reference table. The TT now has a belt-driven... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? As if guided by a Ouija board I just ordered a used Precept 220 body from Witsolutions and a 550ML stylus from Lpgear. The mechanics of PayPal echoed the muscular twitching of a corpse, as mentioned somewhere in Joyce. After purchasing fifteen or ... | |
| I heard BAT was sold Agree with Roscoeii. MoFi's Stage Fright, Big Pink, Surfer Rosa, Doolittle, Wake of the Flood, Brecker's Pilgrimage-- these are some of best sounding LP reissues in memory. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Ct0517, of things analog at CES I particularly enjoyed the new Triplaner 12" on an SP-10 MK3, a Pass-modified MK2 with a custom balanced heavy platter(improbably good with MA505 arm), and several Air Force One TTs, one with new Graham and another ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dgob, My apologies, I was away at CES last week and in recovery most of this one. I just sent you all I know about Vel DD-15 mods. | |
| What's Up with Magnapan at Shows? Their closed-door approach to regimenting demos at the shows just isn't worth the trouble, IMO-- and I once owned 3.3s. | |
| Do balanced/symmetrical phono cables really exist? Assuming that a "TAC" connection on the tonearm is the same as a five-pin DIN, the tonearm is as balanced as it can be. Verify with an ohm meter that each conductor from the four cartridge clips is a discrete wire. The shield should be #5.Elizabet... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Hello Lew et al, It's been too long since listening to 981LZS to comment authoritatively. LZS will be revisited, though probably not before CES. IIRC Stereophile denotes the de-listing of items from Recommended Components List that have ossified i... | |
| Best Rock Albums of 2012 My last tag for 2012 is Yep Rock's vinyl release of John Wesley Harding's New Deal(1996). This advances the argument for re-release on vinyl of great titles from the past few decades that were initially limited to CD. |