dougdeacon
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| Please help with speaker choices Peter,As Dan_Ed said, Nick's modded Lectron is far more capable with a wide range of speakers than anyone could guess from the specs. It has the transparency to play cleanly with horns and the oomph to handle tough crossovers and efficiencies in t... | |
| Triplanar Question?? Ralph,I'm not sure what you mean by setting A/S the same level as tracking force. The TriPlanar has no dial for A/S or VTF. Can you elaborate? Doug P.S. I agree about tracking in general. Our copy of 'Trio' (Parton, Harris, Ronstadt) has a nasty d... | |
| Triplanar Question?? Peter,Have you read through "TriPlanar Tips"? My last post in the discussion thread covers this question.Regards,DougP.S. to all - As our UNIverse reached the 1,000-1,500 hour mark it has gotten a bit more responsive (!) and it tracks a bit better... | |
| Mistracking-what instrument or type of sound... Very well recorded classical piano, provided it's "big" piano music like Beethoven or Liszt. Speakers Corner reissue of Clifford Curzon playing Liszt is my toughest piano LP. Ashkenazy/Beethoven sonatas on English pressed Decca/London is not quite... | |
| VTA For Scoutmaster Jsman,Optimal VTA/SRA depends on the cartridge, not the turntable or tonearm. Advice from other VPI owners will be no more (or less) useful than advice from owners of other rigs. What would be especially useful is advice from other users of your n... | |
| New Teres Direct Drive Motor Available as Option Tim,The o-ring Chris supplies is from McMaster Carr, part number 9557K228. How about a group power buy?! ;-)Doug | |
| Best of the Gliders, or? Markd51, Since you're obviously open to making a change, can you state what aspects of the Glider's sound you'd want to change or improve? What do you love about it? What do you find maybe a little lacking?Sharing what you like/dislike might lead ... | |
| "Glue Cleaning" Your LP's OTOH, while you're waiting 8-10 hours for the glue to dry, I've wet cleaned my copy (15-20 minutes), played it (1 hour), filed it (1 minute), lost it (instantaneous), looked for it (8 hours) and bought another copy on ebay!The question remains: wh... | |
| How to tell if lp is recorded with phase reversed? ... the difference is a sensation of "hollowness" , lack of dynamics and bass impact.That is what we hear/feel in our system too. A small handful of our (classical) LP's give that giant sucking feeling. Big impacts start by pulling air away from y... | |
| New Teres Direct Drive Motor Available as Option Johnbrown,Sorry your very interesting question got lost in the (fascinating) noise floor of that other discussion. Cocobolo is pretty durable of course. I imagine the O-ring will wear about 100 X faster. I'm certainly not worried about any short t... | |
| Record cleaner If you make one, we will buy! | |
| New Teres Direct Drive Motor Available as Option I was going to mention the hole in Pauly's economics, but Jtimothya and Cello beat me to it. Saving 1-2% via improved cash flow by paying 80-100% more to subsidize dealer and distributor inventories is no savings, and believing so is naive.Our ban... | |
| New Teres Direct Drive Motor Available as Option Kostas 1,I may have gotten the model name wrong, but it was the one with three motors. If that's the Maximum Solution, I apologize for the confusion.I haven't heard this rig myself, the owner doesn't live near me. But he sent photos and we traded ... | |
| New Teres Direct Drive Motor Available as Option Emailists,The Verus was designed for and tested on tables with platters ranging from 25 lb. (the 265) to 35 lb. (my 320) to 70 lb. (Cello's 360). A 20 lb. platter will present no problems. According to emails from Chris, the performance jump vs. b... | |
| New Teres Direct Drive Motor Available as Option Dgarretson,Using a thread drive is a challenge, for just the reason you stated. I've tried it with Teres motors (which also have small diameter pulleys) and could not prevent audible slippage. A larger diameter pulley that provided more surface ar... |