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| Teres Audio Verus Direct Couples Motor, Anyone? I am surprised that the bump in the Verus O-ring is so audible.Ours didn't have any bump. Unlike Chuck911's, our O-ring arrived sanded quite smooth and round. There was zero rumble in the dead wax or between tracks. It was just as quiet as our bel... | |
| Teres Audio Verus Direct Couples Motor, Anyone? Lewm,If someone has positive results I'm happy for them. As I keep saying, this is a YMMV sort of component. The Verus will satisfy many listeners while failing to meet the needs of some.Our Verus was not defective, at least not compared with othe... | |
| Teres Audio Verus Direct Couples Motor, Anyone? Hi Agaffer,The speed controller only ensures speed stability of the motor. It does not guarantee speed accuracy of the platter, which will vary with the circumference of the platter (and the O-ring). The controller steps are in .32% increments. At... | |
| Teres Audio Verus Direct Couples Motor, Anyone? We compared a Verus with our Reference II/gold motor and holographic mylar belt, on our 320. It went back to Chris. The Verus's measured speed was inaccurate and it colored the sound in ways that did not suit our music or our ears.For other music ... | |
| Cartridge problem, phono warm up? Other problem? It's possible your stylus is crudded up enough to prevent clean replay of anything. I have seen this on several cartridges I've been asked to inspect for "damage" - all they needed was proper stylus maintenance. Cleaning your stylus is essential a... | |
| Test Lp If I could only take one of my test LP's to a desert island I'd choose the one with a gatefold cover. It would provide more shade!As Headsnappin' and Dan_Ed said, you're more likely to be misled then well led by the tracks on many of them. Learn t... | |
| Any new record cleaning products? AIVS multistep (as Cello described it) works best for me, certainly better than RRL or Disc Doctor. Haven't tried steaming yet.AIVS One Step works okay if you're in a hurry, but it doesn't do as good a job as the full process.Doug | |
| TriPlanar Tips Andrew,We've never evaluated the sound with the counterweight screws at different tightnesses. I've always kept them quite snug to avoid weight movement, as you said. This is especially important since I'm back there every day messing with O-rings... | |
| Analog Help Please It certainly sounds like acoustic feedback. The Atmos, being almost fully nude, is likely to be sensitive to that. It gave us no problems on our rig, but I can bounce up and down next to our table with no audible feedback, certainly no skipping. S... | |
| best cartridge for 60,70's classic rock, folk .... Tjnif, Both the cartridges you mentioned are spectacular for hard rockin'. Which one you'd prefer depends on your tastes and perhaps on how much non-rock you listen to...The Atmos's incredible slam outrocks most cartridges by a mile, but it still ... | |
| zyx universe cartr.- ideal weight -ideal vta , Hi Jonathon,Thanks for getting me more up to date. I haven't heard a Titan i but of course I'll pay close attention if/when I get the chance. "Artfully stylized" sounds alot like "brushed with a hint mink" to me. ;-) It really was artful, as I sai... | |
| zyx universe cartr.- ideal weight -ideal vta , I see that the Olympos for sale is the lower output model, just 0.2mv. That's the version we've heard, twice; it's presumably faster and more responsive than the high output version. When I hit the lotto I'm thinking of asking Mehran for an extra-... | |
| zyx universe cartr.- ideal weight -ideal vta , Stltrains,After we had UNIverse #1 for about a year Mehran heard from some foreign dealer wanting a used one for demo purposes. He offered us a good trade in so we took the opportunity to get back to zero hours. ZYX has no retipping service per se... | |
| zyx universe cartr.- ideal weight -ideal vta , All of a sudden things began to really get amazing. Right around 2.00 the sound just...well blew my head off...:-) ... not only is the superior sound that vinyl playback delivers satisfying but the fact that its hands on, your own trial and error ... | |
| zyx universe cartr.- ideal weight -ideal vta , Hi Halcro,You combined two topics into one post. I'll address them individually.METHODSArthur's method and mine are more alike than different. We each start from a defined baseline and move up in increments, noting sonic improvements as we go. Whe... |