dogberry
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| TONEARM DAMPING : DAMPED OR NOT ? ? USELESS ? ? WELCOMED ? ? It took two albums this morning for me to change my mind and get up and swap the London Reference and the BM LP-S, moving the former on to the V and the latter on to the IV. Set the VTF, adjusted the overhang, set the anti-skate and rechecked the ... | |
| TONEARM DAMPING : DAMPED OR NOT ? ? USELESS ? ? WELCOMED ? ? Thanks, Raul. I need to hear those differences rather than see them on paper to know if they are significant. And SME silicon is 60cS rather than 10, which I assume is a significant difference. I shall have to experiment some more, but it should w... | |
| Advice and recommendations needed for a turntable rig... I can change a cartridge and set up the replacement in twenty minutes. If I change the headshell on the one tonearm I have that uses interchangeable headshells, it takes about 10-15 minutes including the set-up of the new cartridge (the SME 309 he... | |
| Inflation being tracked in the UK with vinyl records Does the UK include food, housing and energy in the statistics? From the article linked: The ONS tracks price changes of more than 700 goods and services to produce a monthly snapshot of inflation in the UK economy. It updates the items inclu... | |
| Inflation being tracked in the UK with vinyl records That may (or may not) be so, but I thought it interesting that enough vinyl records are now being sold that they can be part of the process to track inflation. | |
| Are your record surfaces as silent as CDs? For removal of any visible/invisible dust particles before play, I use the Furutech Destat III followed by a 'rocket blower' (as used when working with negatives in the darkroom). Nothing except a stylus touches the record after it has been cleaned. | |
| Garrard 301 - Project A Garrard deserves a London Decca Reference cartridge both for historical reasons and to maximise the liveliness. Should be available again by the end of this year. | |
| TONEARM DAMPING : DAMPED OR NOT ? ? USELESS ? ? WELCOMED ? ? Understood. Thanks. | |
| Are your record surfaces as silent as CDs? I may be influenced by having listened to vinyl records back when that was all there was. Compared to those days, my records are now silent. Compared to a CD, well probably very nearly so. But I'm a bit of an obsessive about cleaning records, and ... | |
| TONEARM DAMPING : DAMPED OR NOT ? ? USELESS ? ? WELCOMED ? ? it's not easy to fall in count what to look for Can you rephrase that bit, please? I don't understand what you mean. | |
| How does wood hardness affect the sound of a TT on a wood TT platform? As a Observer looking in, from my Keyboard End, it is seemingly easy to discover there are behavioural limiters that are stuck to certain individuals within this Analogue Forum like flies to a released motion. A "released motion"? That's not ni... | |
| TONEARM DAMPING : DAMPED OR NOT ? ? USELESS ? ? WELCOMED ? ? Raul, you may be right, and it is hardly for me to argue. But if my one, poor, remaining ear cannot hear the difference, what then? I shall note that SME do not include any damping trough on most of their tonearms: it is standard only on the V (b... | |
| TONEARM DAMPING : DAMPED OR NOT ? ? USELESS ? ? WELCOMED ? ? Btw, @dogberry: how much time ago did you that tests with the V/IV with and with out silicon? Within the last 18 months the Reference moved off the Series V, initially when it went for a rebuild. When it came back, I put it on a Series IV (as ... | |
| TONEARM DAMPING : DAMPED OR NOT ? ? USELESS ? ? WELCOMED ? ? It was the SME 60k Cs silicon. | |
| TONEARM DAMPING : DAMPED OR NOT ? ? USELESS ? ? WELCOMED ? ? Zombie threadpocalypse! I used damping on an SME V because I read it would help the mistracking (which I had not experienced) of the London Decca Reference and these days the same cartridge sits on an SME IV without damping and still exhibits no ... |