dogberry
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| 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 ... | |
| Anybody using the last record preservative Is there no spätlese extra virgin? Not to mention auslese or trockenbeeren auslese? Happy days at the Friday night Practice tasting session with the vintner in attendance! | |
| Comparison of sonic qualities of some tonearms I have not opened the links, why would I, and The Links are more than adequate to experience the Sat TA. ...appear to be at odds. Can you help me with that? | |
| Comparison of sonic qualities of some tonearms The difficult part is to get both records to start playing exactly in sync for stereo..... The really funny part is that I once did exactly that to compare two cartridges mounted on the same arm on the same tables. | |
| Comparison of sonic qualities of some tonearms Correct me if I'm wrong, but do we not agree that tonearms do affect sound quality, and the point of this thread is how best to assess that? After all, if they do not, then it shall make no difference which one we buy or use. As for how to check ... | |
| Anybody using the last record preservative I have a few cans of GruvGlide, which I don't use. I bought them many years ago when I thought they might be a good idea. They do smell delicious though, and if I ever get into huffing they might be useful. | |
| Comparison of sonic qualities of some tonearms It is highly unusual for anyone to have two of exactly the same turntables I never claimed to be ordinary! 😉 |