dougdeacon
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| Tone arm for SOTA/ZYX Hi Swampwalker,An SME IV or V would be a fine match for a ZYX with the silver headshell weight, which yours had when last I saw it. ;-) They are excellent arms, more refined than an OL Silver, and are easy to set up and live with. They lack VTA on... | |
| Teres, Galibier and Redpoint ... some records need different clamping pressure than others. I'm not sure how that translates to the weight. I've never tried a weight either, for exactly this reason. It's only Rudolf Bruil's ring that is a problem, due to its unusually large ... | |
| Teres, Galibier and Redpoint I think Raul should buy one of each and set up a salon! Then we can use them to compare his 18 arms and 47 cartridges. ;-)Truly, it's as Raul said. These are all fine tables, each with its own plus points (many) and minus points (few). Obviously w... | |
| Teres 265 or 320 vs. Sota Cosmos Why, it's the Perfect Sound Forever Machine of course!Someone else posted that here once, I forget who though.BTW, if your friend's Teres doesn't have the latest, 2 mil thick clear drive belt then get one before making any evaluations. It makes a ... | |
| Tri planar and shelter 901 and Verdier Tenmus,Assuming the jig is accurately made and used you are right, the spindle-to-pivot dimension will be set automatically. However, as Pcosta mentioned, I too have seen inaccurate jigs from TriPlanar. Mark the holes and check everything before y... | |
| About Lugnut -- Patrick Malone Barb,Thank you for the card and photo. Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night! | |
| Tri planar and shelter 901 and Verdier Tenmus,1. If your Verdier's armboard isn't drilled for the TriPlanar then it needs to be. The arm comes with a jig that positions the three holes for the mounting screws. Whoever is drilling the armboard will need that jig and the TriPlanar manual... | |
| Noticing the VPI Pheripery ring Thread-Which OUCH! If you read the fine print on Rudolf's page he acknowledges the incompatibility. The problem is the overall diameter of the RSR. The TriPlanar's bearing armtube runs into it. | |
| wiring rec. for triplaner upgrade Well now, "Thom" is a pretty big name isn't it? Why it's 33% bigger than all the regular Toms!Too bad about your friend's insecurity. That approach usually gets about half the performance for twice the money. | |
| Shelter 501 MKii/RB 600/Gyro SE: how many spacers? However, what you want to achieve is for the tonearm to be level, and if that requires spacers to raise it, then use whatever thickness is necessary.I must respectfully disagree. Whether one's tonearm is level or otherwise is almost completely irr... | |
| Noticing the VPI Pheripery ring Thread-Which I owned a ring made by Rudolf Bruil in the Netherlands. It made a big improvement on both warped AND unwarped records, as others have mentioned. Info on it is here:http://www.xs4all.nl/~rabruil/ttring.htmlI had to sell it when I switched to a TriP... | |
| Trying to get back into Lps, I seem to be throwing Excellent responses so far. More than most components, cartridges do need some hours on them to play their best. Performance usually changes as the suspension loosens up. This in turn may require adjustments to your setup. Everything in vinyl play... | |
| wiring rec. for triplaner upgrade Like Thom, I haven't heard other wire, but I have no desire to change the Discovery in my TriPlanar VII. I've A/B'd my arm against some other highly regarded ones, both in my system and in others. It's never failed to surprise those who were expec... | |
| ZYX Universe, Dynavector XV-1s, vdH Colibri, ?? Raul,Excellent summary. Thanks for being a good "referee"! :-)SirSpeedy,Whoever told you the fluid dampening was not done for our arm comparison last March was mis-remembering. Paul and I visited Larry in November, 2004. We went for two specific p... | |
| HFNR and antiskate on SME 3009/III Agree with all the above.Nsgarch's visual method works well. (Note: it's better with high compliance cartridges than low compliance ones.) Fine tune by ear while listening to music.I do have the HFN record. As I've posted many times on VA, the des... |