djnorth
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| ELP Laser Turntable & Trickle Down I owned an ELP for a couple years and corresponded much with Mr. Chiba, President of ELP. The laser turntable is a very complicated device with 5 lasers, optical read heads, and high speed servos. He told me there are only a couple companies on th... | |
| The SET amp question. 110dB?! Which make and model are they?Donald North | |
| Upgrade bedroom system Have you considered a high performance on-wall loudspeaker?Donald North | |
| most accurate loudspeakers.... How do we define most accurate? Here are a couple possibilities:1. Most accurate at creating the illusion of a live concert or musicians in your home?2. Most accurate and reproducing the input signal's waveform in room at your listening seat?At th... | |
| RE: Forsell Air Reference Transport When the lid slammed shut, it pushed the aluminum drive pulley up against the laser mechanism housing, preventing it from rotating. To fix this requires CAREFULLY removing the aluminum pulley and reseating it on its aluminum spindle.To prevent the... | |
| What is the best 2A3 SET Amplifier? I own a pair of Audio Note UK Neiro 2A3 PSE monoblocks and those are, without a doubt, the best amps I have ever heard! Prior to getting these amps, my favorite was the Kondo-made Neiro. The new UK versions better the Kondo product with greater re... | |
| Linear tracking vs. Pivoted tracking tone arms. The answer to your question is posted on my website: http://www.dnaudio.com/Tan.htm | |
| Remote Passive Preamp Audio Synthesis recently introduced a new version of their Passion passive preamp called the Passion Ultimate. It is fully remote controlled (no knobs or buttons), has 3 inputs plus a direct, adjusts the volume in 60-1dB steps, adjusts the balance... | |
| Need Turntable advise On the Rega RB300, VTA is set using spacers/shims in fixed increments. A few companies make adapters for the Rega to give it continuous VTA adjustment. I think VPI makes one. | |
| Linear Tracking Turntables - Best?? Najo, I disagree strongly. I have spent years and thousands of dollars trying to find a pivoted-arm combo that did not have the ever-present graininess, harshness, and spittiness which happens at the end of records. It's physically impossible with... | |
| Need Turntable advise The best turntable value of all time is the Rega Planar 3 with the RB300 tonearm. This combination is now called the P3. It is very basic, straight forward to use, lasts forever, and sounds too good given the price! Once I heard a direct compariso... | |
| Are MC step-up transformers better? I haven't tried the T-30, but if it is anything like my T-5000, then I'm sure it sounds great! I was on Ebay last night and typed in Ortofon. I found 4 transformers for sale: T-2000, T-3000, T-5000, and a T-20 MkII. A friend ownes a Forsell Air Fo... | |
| Are MC step-up transformers better? Excellent results can be achieved with MC step-up transformers, but requires careful selection and system matching. A few years ago I went on a quest to find the best step-up for my Ortofon MC3000 MKII cartridge (0.1mV output). I tried a Klyne act... |