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| Which cartridge is the Imaging/soundstaging champ IME an unstabilized unipivot will always put some limits on imaging and soundstaging compared with a more stable arm design. Channel balance and separation are too easily compromised when stylus azimuth isn't held steady.That said, a Grado would b... | |
| Need Ur Help Pls. Best Arm+Cart for Sota Nova V ? Great info! Your phono stage has the gain and impedance (loading) flexibility to handle just about any cartridge. No significant restrictions there.It's great to see a fan of new music who prefers honest, uncolored components. Most classical and j... | |
| Teres, Galibier and Redpoint Redpoint went to very thin, silicone rubber pads under their motor controller. FWIW, I once tried adding a thin (<.5mm) layer of a self-adhesive, non-slip material to the bottom of the coupling discs on which my motor spikes sit. I thought this... | |
| Does antiskating matter with spring disabled? Jea48,With all respect, you are confusing things.Why do you want to disconnect the antiskating?He never said he wanted to disconnect it. He asked if he should "touch" it, i.e., readjust for any reason.Where ever you had it set before the Heavyweig... | |
| Need Ur Help Pls. Best Arm+Cart for Sota Nova V ? Hi Sit,You're going to have to give us more information to get a useful response.Like all things audio, there is no "best" tonearm and there is no "best" cartridge - for a Sota or any other table.First, what phono stage are you using? What are its... | |
| Shelter and Triplanar matching ? The ideal impedance for the SUT with both AIRY 3 and UNIverse is 6,6 ohm with 0,24 output version ?I meant to write 66 ohms, but that is in MY system. LOMC's are so sensitive to impedance when using an SUT that no one can predict the ideal value f... | |
| Shelter and Triplanar matching ? In your opinion how many hours before retipping a cartridge ?I have not put enough hours on any high end cartridge to know from my own experience. If you search Vinyl Asylum you'll find hundreds of posts from people who have. People report anythin... | |
| Littlite-Which one to buy? I have the LED model. Works fine. The red-only setting makes a good night light, that's about all.Rheostats are a potential source of RF interference. I didn't want to risk hum and noise that near my TT. | |
| Review: ZYX UNIverse-X-SB Cartridge Thomas,Thank you for adding your review to ours. We've been listening to our UNIverse for 14 months now. It never changes yet it keeps getting better. ;-) Every new upgrade to our system has simply allowed this cartridge to reveal even more music.... | |
| Shelter and Triplanar matching ? I defer to Raul re: silver vs. copper wire, since copper is all I've heard. (One exception: copper coil ZYX's are more neutral than silver, and silver is more neutral than gold. This is not what I expected before I demoed them, but it is what I he... | |
| Teres, Galibier and Redpoint Colin, We captured another one. Great! Which model Teres and Schroeder did you fling your hard-earned money at? (Don't worry, there's no wrong answer!)Nghiep,The bigger pulley diamter provides much more belt contacting surface area. I wonder why t... | |
| Teres, Galibier and Redpoint Dan_Ed,We haven't received the new bearing yet, so my table is presently doing a live imitation of an exploded diagram. Fortunately, tables of this type have relatively few parts!Waiting is hard, I feel your pain. Dutifully cleaning records we can... | |
| Shelter and Triplanar matching ? Some of my Lp ( most of them are second handed) have a succession of tiny waves Yikes!On these records of course the TP / Shelter still shakes but I think now that it is normal ... I only didn't hear it with the Rega /audio note because it was les... | |
| Teres, Galibier and Redpoint Dan_Ed,Tension with a mylar belt is certainly touchier than with a more elastic one, but with Audiopoints coupling discs beneath the three spikes on my motor it doesn't move by itself. I check belt tension once in a while with a finger, but it's t... | |
| MC transformers - what do they sound like? >> I am looking forward to continued discussion on this, but mostly, I would love to hear a demonstration. Open invitation to one and all! Hear it live! Bent Audio Mu's vs. one "no holds barred" FET gain stage.Of course I defer to Thom's exp... |