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| One turntable with two arms, or two turntables with one each - which would you prefer? Very kind of you, John, but I shall decline. My two turntables sit atop a very heavy 17th century oak chest, which I have carefully levelled. I don't think a slab of anything, however good it is in the audio realm, will be acceptable to SWMBO. I ... | |
| One turntable with two arms, or two turntables with one each - which would you prefer? @lewm With respect to granite, presumably the crystalline nature of rocks can affect their ability to resonate? All I know about them is to do with their abrasive qualities when lapped and used for honing straight razors. And now I shall be accuse... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? When someone gets banned twice and still feels it is the forum's fault I believe I might be justified in thinking that is a red flag. With respect to my comment that feeling the need to turn the volume up is an indication that there is something ... | |
| One turntable with two arms, or two turntables with one each - which would you prefer? I find it interesting that beech is used for making a resin impregnated wood. Beech has a reputation as being one of the most waterproof woods available - it used to be used for the construction of waterwheels at mills and is still used as handles... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? Talking of the proof being in the listening, I just realised I have been making an elementary mistake, and I bet most of you do it too. This is about getting the volume right when comparing cartridges. I expect we all know that volume influences ... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? "The Decca London Reference is an awful cartridge. It is a terrible tracker and very unreliable." Says you. I've had one for eleven years with no reliability issues and no tracking problems, nor does it hum like the Deccas of yesteryear. Put it i... | |
| Looking for a London (DECCA) Reference phono cartridge Fingers crossed for you! | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? @pindac That's very interesting. You may have gathered I'm wedded to my London Deccas, but I know I must be prepared for their demise and unrepairablity after John Wright retires at the end of this month. The Kontrapunkt C has been a welcome surpr... | |
| One turntable with two arms, or two turntables with one each - which would you prefer? "Dogberry, what phono stage provides 5 pairs of phono inputs?" Five inputs are available in the huge and delightful Musical Fidelity NuVistor Vinyl. It remembers what you have set for each one (each can be MM - with eight capacitative loading set... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? " Is the Kontrapunkt B, the ’World's Best Cartridge’ ? Was the Kontrapunkt B, in its modified guise, the Best Cartridge heard in an individual’s World on the day of the event, for a proportion of the attendee’s, it is a possibility this was the ... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? mulveling wrote: "Even much lower line cartridges like Kontrapunkts..." Careful, lad, I'm listening to a 500 hour Kontrapunkt C and thinking it is uncomfortably close to what I like about the London Decca Reference. That alone makes me think Ort... | |
| Analogue v. Digital...again (Washington Post) I wouldn't trash gear just because it's old. We are enjoying very modest incremental improvements on analog equipment these days. They are real advances, but small and expensive. Some old troglodyte in the 1960s with a Decca cartridge, Garrard tur... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? I've lusted a bit after the Hyperion from SS, and have a Sussurro MkII which is the cartridge just below the Hyperion in that product line. I find it like the Grado Statement 3 - honest, thorough but unexciting. I won't bore everyone again by reco... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? @rauliruegas wrote "Btw, today no one and I mean it can trust only in that " listen " that is only subjectivity. We need to be very carefully about and try to analyze the item surrounded facts/characteristics in an objective way. Ears can foolis... | |
| Looking for a London (DECCA) Reference phono cartridge In my case I needed a new stylus, and the cartridge had become very microphonic, which usually means one of the coils has become loose. So it would have needed the top taking off, the potting removing, coil fixed in place, new potting, new stylus ... |