dougdeacon
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| Suspended Basis vs Nonsuspended Teres Cardiackid, If you can audition both designs in the same or similar systems, by all means let your ears decide. Just make sure the differences you hear are actually due to the TT's.FWIW (not much) I chose a non-suspended Teres 265 because:1) a for... | |
| I'm scratching my records Nice post Zaikesman, excellent advice. Considerable physical involvement is necessary to play LP's properly anyway. Why not cue manually?I'd forgotten that a JMW lacks any real antiskate mechanism. If his wires aren't twisted (or worse, if they're... | |
| I'm scratching my records I agree with SDcampbell that insufficient anti-skating force could contribute to this problem, but I disagree with the suggested method of setting it.Skating force is a function of friction and offset angle: the record groove moving past the stylu... | |
| I'm scratching my records John,You've actually asked two questions, one about cueing a record, the other about Vertical Tracking Force. A perfect VTF setting will not prevent what happened to Norah. :( The ideal setup is optimized to let your stylus accurately trace a groo... | |
| Newbie, looking for giant killer front end Hi Jim,Do you already have a phono stage? If so, what is it? No one can recommend a cartridge without knowing that, and no one can recommend an arm without knowing the cartridge. System synergy is even more critical in a vinyl front end than in el... | |
| I have seen the light. If you're in the mood to mine one more collection of used LP's, Integrity 'n Music on the Silas Deane Hwy in Wethersfield has lots of jazz, R & B and country. Not much classical, don't know about rock/pop. You'll have to sift through the damag... | |
| Arm/cartridge weight measurement JAZZTry Brubeck's 'Time Out'. It's available on both a CD reissue and a fabulous Classic Records reissue on 200g vinyl. AcousticSounds.com and MusicDirect.com have them both. Extraordinary music-making on a fabulous Columbia 6 eye recording. It ha... | |
| Preamp Phono Stage v Standalone + Linestage Lester,There are good internal and external phono stages ranging from a few hundred dollars to over $10,000.What is your budget? What is the rest of your system? Help us out a little. | |
| Turntable Cartridge- Higher Frequency Response Jvogt and Dirtyragamuffin are correct. If two cartridges were equal in every other respect, the one with a more extended frequency response would be "better". But since virtually nothing about an AT and a Grado is equal, the issues Jvogt raised ar... | |
| I have seen the light. Swampwalker, glad to hear you found the key. A clamp does so many necessary things, I can't imaging spinning without one. Too bad about Borders, my local thrift shops have really lousy coffee bars! | |
| Arm/cartridge weight measurement Totally agree with Sdcampbell about the SFG.If you want to get into other cartridge setup parameters you'll need a decent cartridge alignment tool. The best generic, bang-for-the-buck one is at www.turntablebasics.com for $20. Aligning your cartri... | |
| Teres update Joe,Patrick is right about it being easy to bump the armboard out of postion. I replaced my stock armboard bolt with a longer one to get more thread length in the armboard, but it can still happen. When it does you've got to realign your cartridge... | |
| Am I brushing records wrong? Matt,The others have described the proper technique for using a carbon fiber brush. "Hundreds of tiny hairs" on a freshly washed record are almost certainly carbon fibers from your brush. They are indeed very difficult to remove. Try zapping with ... | |
| How to find better pressings Random ideas in no particular order...Learn which record labels and time periods TEND to be good and which ones don't. Generic examples: RCA before 1965 = good or greatRCA after 1970 = doubtfulMercury Living Presence = great or good, best records ... | |
| Teres update Joe, Glad you're okay with the Teres bits. :) If you can get a Shelter 901 for $1100 from a safe source, I'd jump on it. Tell the wife she can have the house and the silver. You get the stereo and the records. ;)I haven't heard a Koetsu Black, but... |