dougdeacon
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| Thinking of selling my Teres Joe,It's great to see you back, even with a tough question. I vote with the others who say keep the table, at least until you're sure you've found something better. There's too much of Joe in it to let it go without a good reason.If it'll help let... | |
| Tracking Troubles--Upgrade or Setup? It could indeed be clipping. I've heard it with quite a few phono stages and I know Rushton has too. Just as with a power amp or any amp, dynamic peaks cause phono stage problems if the power supplies can't provide enough instantaneous current to ... | |
| DRT XV1s Vs Orpheus Vs Shelter Harmony Vs 47 Labs Timmy,I didn't understand your comment so I re-read my post, and I still don't understand your comment. Help me out here... My one use of the word "best" was in a doubly qualified sentence, limited to the OP's particular list of cartridges and als... | |
| Set up for ZU103 cart and K&K SUT Great post by Jbaxley. One minor correction/suggestion: if inserting resistors reduces gain too much, it would be easier and more effective to switch the GCPH to a higher gain setting than to open up the SUT's and change taps. He can choose 42, 48... | |
| Set up for ZU103 cart and K&K SUT First Q: why use a stepup tranny at all? The GPCH has 60db of gain at its highest (unbalanced) setting, which should be adequate for a 103. You would experiment with its 100, 500 and 1K impedance settings to see which gives you the flattest respon... | |
| DRT XV1s Vs Orpheus Vs Shelter Harmony Vs 47 Labs I agree with the above responses re: the Jubilee. The OP's rig and phono stage are worthy of a much better cartridge. I had a friend's Jubilee in our system for nearly a month, on and off (mostly off!). Not fair putting it up against our UNIverse,... | |
| Tracking Troubles--Upgrade or Setup? The table is not a huge factor in tracking. Arm and cartridge are both critical, as are setup, stylus cleaning and LP cleaning. You've done the setup, but are your stylus and vinyl cleaning up to par?Of course we haven't actually established that ... | |
| Unstable Imaging - Causes? One more possibility: detach and clean all the connections in the analog portion of your system. Dirty connectors can lose conductivity in ways which vary with the frequency and amplitude of the musical signal. That sounds like what your experienc... | |
| Can Origin Live be as good as the ads say? What I don't get about OL tonearms, is that the angle of the up/down ivot is perpendicular to the arm. Every other tonearm I've seen has the angle running perpendicular to the needle/cartridge mount (i.e. Rega, SME &c.).Good observation. It wa... | |
| Lp cleaning - scrubbing records - any downside? Mark,All is fine, thanks for asking. I've been swamped at work and will be for the foreseeable future, so my free time is limited.Of course there's a silver lining: shorter posts! ;-) | |
| Lp cleaning - scrubbing records - any downside? I scratched the dead wax on a DG just by setting downforce too high on the vacuum arm on my Loricraft. (BTW, "too high" means "per Loricraft's instructions".) I don't know if other record labels would be as easily damaged, and I don't want to find... | |
| ZYX 4D new cartridge. Best yet ? Patrick is correct.The 4D is identical to the Atmos, the difference is in name only and strictly for marketing region purposes. This isn't what non-USA dealers will tell you, but they can't sell the UNIverse... You can read reviews of both cartrid... | |
| tonearm mounting and alignment Like Dan_Ed, I like the TurnTableBasics. Its mirrored surface with top surface image and bottom surface reflection make it possible to achieve far superior alignments than any non-mirrored protractor ever can.That said, I'd offer two warnings:1) g... | |
| Teres 260 or Galibier Serac? Rsrex and Williamdc,The Verus we tried was indeed an early one, but the problem was not that it didn't keep constant speed. It kept perfectly constant speed - just not at 33 1/3. Speed inaccuracy (not instability) is a high probability outcome whe... | |
| tonearm mounting and alignment You shouldn't be aligning the body of your cartridge, whether it's square or otherwise. The body of the cartridge doesn't trace the record grooves, so why align it?You should be aligning the cantilever (ideally, the stylus, but that's too small to... |