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| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm My first record player needed to be wound up and played only 78s and the only option was whether to use a steel needle or a hawthorn bush thorn, of which there was a supply in a small metal bowl in the top right corner. The 78s given to me with it... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm Looks like very few are able to overcome what they have been taught, And before anyone gets excited, overcoming what your society teaches is you is almost always wrong. The problem is that in the very few exceptions to that "almost always" is whe... | |
| If I could afford, I’d purchase 100% Oswald Mills Audio gear People buy things for their looks rather than their sound? What would such people be doing on this site (beyond annoying us)? | |
| Annoying trend? New vinyl equalization and compression @seekerbob my son has never bought a record, but has watched me all his life putting records on to a turntable. All we can do is to condition the young to regard this as just another way to play music. A few of them might be alert enough to the st... | |
| Annoying trend? New vinyl equalization and compression If vinyl pressing plants are being kept open by hipsters and their USB-direct-to-phone turntables, I expect we should be glad. Those pressing plants will also get some serious jobs, and one hopes they kept on an engineer who could do them justice.... | |
| Annoying trend? New vinyl equalization and compression I don't know that it is a new trend: there have always been dreadful sounding records of otherwise good music. You have to know which ones you have and refrain from using them when comparing two pieces of equipment! I have many records I love that... | |
| Tokyo shops? Cartridges and vinyl gear Film camera users will be aware of a very helpful guy that will buy a good example of a desired film camera in Japan and send it on with a small fee. We need something like that for hi-fi! | |
| Curious Why Benz Micro Slid Into Obscurity The LP-S arrived today, and is now sitting at the end of a Series IV (which balanced it with about a centimeter of weight adjustment to spare). It's playing its first record for me, the Opus 3 Test Record 1. Going back and forth between tracks pla... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm Is the tonearm base attached to the slate? Or does it rest upon it but not bolted down? I'd call it a pod if it isn't bolted down, but I mean no disrespect by that term. I remain impressed by your commitment to testing rather than theorising. | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm Only 2lb? Acoustand tonearm pods are 5kg/11lb each. Even that isn't enough for some commenters! :) Seriously though, you have put to the test what I mentioned a few pages back: the advantage of zero skating force might outweigh the tracking error... | |
| Cartridge suggestions for my rig I confess I initially was underwhelmed with the Soundsmith Sussurro MkII ES, but I have to eat my words. Since I last tried it I have gone back to my old phono stage (a Quad 24p) and I have mounted it on a better tonearm (SME IV) and now it gives ... | |
| Curious Why Benz Micro Slid Into Obscurity Looks like I have an LP-S on the way. | |
| Curious Why Benz Micro Slid Into Obscurity I have enjoyed a Ruby 3, and now have a line on a half-price 30-hour LP-s. It will cost me, all the same, about ten times the price of a re-tip on the Ruby 3. How shall I proceed? | |
| Looking for a Warmer Sounding Phono Cartridge If you want warm, and enjoy Koetsu already, I assume you are looking for an alternative to Koetsu, rather than asking us to say "More Koetsu!" I guess Benz Micro are renowned as warm MC cartridges. I'm biased towards MI cartridges, as their livel... | |
| A Discussion About What Level Of Analog To Stop At @neonknight I like a BM Ruby? That is news to me. My apologies: it was @fleschler who likes his Ruby 3. |