dougdeacon
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| Turntable help for a Newbie Terry,No trouble at all. The tales you remember are from the original D-I-Y days, when men were men and Teres TT's were being designed and built virtually from scratch. Joe is capable of doing that. I'm not. Like any model 2xx or 3xx Teres, my 265... | |
| Turntable help for a Newbie Terry,Almost everyone loves their Teres but of course there are exceptions. One guy here preferred the sound of his Michell for example. There's no perfect component, but Teres does seem to offer exceptional performance for the price.There's some ... | |
| Turntable help for a Newbie Hi Txp1,Thanks for the kind words. I've never heard a Sota. I've never heard anything but good about them either. I'll confess we fell for the eye candy appeal of the Teres 265, but we're quite satisfied musically too.We recently upgraded from our... | |
| Turntable help for a Newbie Mang53,Here's another idea. You put $5K aside for my bail money and I'll 'borrow' Rushton's rig. You can come listen any time!<;~) | |
| standard counterweight vs drop counterweight On my OL Silver I've used the stock (concentric) C/W clamped to the arm stub and Twl's DIY suspended C/W, which hangs a weight from the stub on a silk or nylon thread.The suspended C/W obviously decouples the mass of the weight from armtube resona... | |
| Turntable help for a Newbie Teres 255 (used from Teres, $2,675-2,875 depending on finish)Graham 2.x ($2,000-ish)The tables on the Teres "Scratch 'n' Dent" sale page are a screaming bargain. Heck, even the new ones are a bargain, and there's no more "set and forget" TT in the... | |
| Is table really more importsnt than cartridge? Likewise agree with Newbee. Excellent summary and advice. | |
| Is table really more importsnt than cartridge? Winegasman,First let me say that in the few "mismatched" rigs I've heard, the good table/cheap cartridge combination has always worked better than the other way around. So I agree with Sdcambell, Aroc, Albert Porter and Dirtyragamuffin. A better t... | |
| Is this why my analog rig isn't so hot? Ken,Thank you for elaborating on your advice to George re: Clearaudio and Teres. That's all I was asking for, something specific to fill in your original statement, which you must admit was rather terse.As for what I'm enamoured with or how sensit... | |
| Is this why my analog rig isn't so hot? Caterham1700,I asked:"You didn't say why you'd avoid Clearaudio or Teres or make any model distinctions. Why the blanket slams? How about some specifics. What have you heard?"You responded:"Slam? How did you get that and Do you REALLY want me to e... | |
| Is this why my analog rig isn't so hot? Yourmama,We are talking at cross purposes and very much OT of course. My apologies to NGeorge.I merely mentioned that a Teres 265 can reproduce sub-20Hz notes when properly equipped with a suitable arm and cartridge. I made that remark only to dem... | |
| Record-playing Rituals? Just sharing my experience, confirmed by both listening tests and constant visual inspection of the stylus.I guess the theories don't interest me as much as the results, and my records have never been cleaner. I can and do go for many, many sides ... | |
| Maximum VISUAL bang for the buck? How about the Bix?http://www.bottlehead.com/et/bix/bix.htm | |
| Is this why my analog rig isn't so hot? Dear Raul,Which harmonic of a 16Hz test tone is lower than the 32Hz organ tone at the beginning of 'Zarathustra', which we hear quite easily? On the HFN lateral resonance track Paul and I both hear pitch-differentiated test tones at 24, 22, 20, 18... | |
| Is this why my analog rig isn't so hot? Yourmama,I forgot to remark about one of your points: some Teres tables include acrylic and some don't. Mine doesn't. Check my system. |