dougdeacon
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| Bad experience with ZYX AIRY 3 Ketchup,Adding weight at the headshell would make your horizontal eff. mass even higher. Doesn't seem like that's the right direction.Assuming a horizontal eff. mass of 25 and using the usual formula gives a caluclated horizontal resonance frequen... | |
| Anyone can tell me the cartridge shown here? Stylus = the part of the cartridge that actually rides inside the record groove Needle = used in sewing/tailoring to draw thread through fabric Good advice from Xiekitchen about having a dealer help you set up the table, arm and cartridge. Someone... | |
| Compliance & Efffective Mass Question Outlier,Tracks 6-9 on side 1 of the HFNRR record are not "tests" that need to be "passed". Neither are the three "tracking test" bands on side 2. Adjusting your rig in an attempt to play these tracks cleanly will invariably lead to an inferior set... | |
| Compliance & Efffective Mass Question Outlier,I'm not familiar with your arm so I'll mostly defer to the good posts others have made on that subject. Just one suggestion, get a copy of the HFNRR record and measure your resonance frequencies. If they're somewhere around 8-12Hz then you... | |
| How much fine tuning required on cartridge loading If you're using stepup transformers, input impedance becomes very critical for MC's. Active gain stages make it useful (as Hagtech described) but not quite as critical.Still, I would never be without some way of adjusting impedance for MC use. Eve... | |
| Carts that sound like a Koetsu Gregadd,Very true. Our c-j preamp (tube) had alot of that rounded quality, on both leading edges and trailing ones. Typical c-j warmth. Pleasant, musical and never offensive, but not fully lifelike. It also lacked adequate power supplies, so our d... | |
| Cheap Turntable Protractor If you want cheap, why not free? Visit http://www.vinylengine.com/manuals_tonearm_protractors.shtmlPrint your own. Have it laminated for $2 at Staples or Kinkos if you like.Next best (and quite a bit better IMO) is probably the TurntableBasics for... | |
| Carts that sound like a Koetsu Thanks, guys. Excellent info.Apologies to Dazzdax for the digressions. | |
| Silicone for Tri-Planer damping trough Interesting observations, Thom.Cello and I confirmed the benefits of SirSpeedy's very fine tuning of damping on the Graham 2.2. It is far more particular than a 50% move this way or that. To get the most from that arm you really must adjust the da... | |
| Carts that sound like a Koetsu Raul,I've heard the Urushi, the RSP and the Onyx Platinum, but not the RS.When I had the RSP in my system I did use stepups, but Cello's two phono stages and my new one all use SS for the primary gain stage. The sonic character we've heard cannot ... | |
| Silicone for Tri-Planer damping trough We crackpots are everywhere!To quote another thread where I got myself in hot water, we find the TriPlanar's silicone damping "intolerable". That is with a Shelter 901 and various ZYX's.To our ears it kills HF extension and dampens everything rath... | |
| Carts that sound like a Koetsu Gregadd,What can I say other than the old YMMV? We have heard rounded transients from multiple models in multiple systems. You haven't heard that. Music is mysterious. ;-)It was wrong of me to ascribe that, or an enjoyment of it, to anyone else ho... | |
| phono stage break in? To avoid adding much to the length of this thead, I'll say that I agree with almost everybody!Do we hear various components break in? Absolutely. Some more than others, as has been noted. Cartridges, speakers, tubes, capacitors, interconnects and ... | |
| Carts that sound like a Koetsu Nghiep,I've compared the 901 and RSP, in two systems and on several arms (Graham 2.2, Basis Vector, Schroeder Ref, modded OL Silver, TriPlanar VII).In general I liked the review Fretless posted, and I also agree with him that the 901 lacks the mid... | |
| Carts that sound like a Koetsu You're right Dazzdax, it was a silly question. Trying for a sound you've never heard and know nothing about is risky and non-educational. Why hand off responsibility for your sonics (and your money) to the unexplored priorities of strangers?All yo... |