dlaloum
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| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Having read with interest the extensive recent discussions about AKG (!)...Here are some questions:1) How many body SHAPES are there ? (it appears that P6/7/8 were the same shape with interchangeable needles?, Then there is the P10? what about the... | |
| Good ADC and PC Sound Card I've only heard positive things about it, but no comparisons with other mainstream pro/semi-pro adc's...For a soundcard, my eMU 1616m does double duty...From the Mytek and Lavry ranges have their respective DAC's - which are just as highly regarde... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? I believe JCarr made the same comments about using carbon fibre in cantilevers...Speaking theoretically - achieving total neutrality requires the ultimate in damping materials - there should be no vibrations there other than the ones originally la... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Hi Raul,totally agree - each and every material has its own damping properties...So every tonearm has some degree of damping built in, and choice of materials will then allow some level of tuning of the damping.Also every material and shape will h... | |
| Good ADC and PC Sound Card I second the vote for Mytek ADC...Depending on budget get the Stereo192 or Stereo96...Another choice and the main competitor for Mytek, is Lavry with the AD10 and AD11.Due to cost constraints, I went for the much more economical (like $250) eMu 16... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Hi Timeltel,thanks for that link... Doug and JCarr's postings are particularly interesting.What they do not discuss is the relationship between compliance and the level of energy transferred to cartridge/arm.Lower compliance / firmer suspension, t... | |
| Are linear tracking arms better than pivoted arms? LOLThank you Ketchup for the link!Reading that thread also shows that the discussion continues - and that the topic of compliance needs to be gone over more thoroughly. | |
| Linear tracking arms and compliance... Hmm - no you are quite right - I was visualising the downside of the warp, and you are visualising the upside of the warp (rise vs fall) - during the rise the short arm is at a disadvantage, during the fall the short arm is at an advantage.So we a... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Hi Fleib,I have not dig into the aspects of compliance / tone-arm mass beyond the basic resonance.LuckyDog on VE built an interesting damping calculator spreadsheet ...The Japanese manufacturers quote the compliance at 100Hz because it is a better... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? We have all the tools we need to measure frequency response... - and some of the other values.Spectrum analyser software is built into many audio editing software packages (CoolEdit, Adobe Audition) - or you can purchase (or find some freeware/sha... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Hi Griffithds,your TK5ea has an inductance approximately 60mH higher than the AT440MLa (490mH vs 550mH) - although not huge, this means that for the same capacitance and resistance, the high end will be rolled off a little more and a little earlie... | |
| Much better MM cartridge than Shure V15 IV? Yep - you can adjust resistive loading downwards by using an RCA Y adapter (either short cable or solid plug type - I use the solid type).It is well described here: http://daveyw.edsstuff.org/vinyl/loading/hope this helpsbye for nowDavid | |
| Linear tracking arms and compliance... Dover - your solution is interesting - with the magnetic damping...The Revox setup is also primarily in the horizontal plane rather than the vertical plane (it will have some influence vertically but far less).I am hearing a number of people posti... | |
| Are linear tracking arms better than pivoted arms? Recently had a look at the Moerch website: http://www.moerch.dk/The new DP8 anisotropic arm is intentionally designed with a high horizontal mass - this is considered a desirable trait...Here we have had a whole discussion focused on the issues wi... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Raul - I disagree with your conclusion regarding High Frequency sensitivity and the article Timeltel posted.What none of these research articles have identified is what the mechanism whereby we sense the HF content is.This article very specificall... |