dougdeacon
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| Scraping sound Maxh,The suspension is collapsing under load. That much is clear. The question remains, why?There are two possibilities:1. The tonearm may be applying excessive vertical tracking force (VTF). This could cause the collapsing you described. It could... | |
| Desire upgrade but uncertain where to begin Since you have a different phono stage sitting right there, why not hook it up and listen to what differences you hear? The best budget is "free", lol. Identifying what you like (or dislike) about one phono stage vs. the other will help you decide... | |
| TriPlanar Tips Wrm57, Thanks for the interesting report (and for keeping his long-running thread alive). The rounding off you mentioned is very visible on the website, and of course any reduction in parallel surfaces will tend to reduce standing waves and feedba... | |
| Am I totally nuts or just a bit off? Tonywinsc, by your own calculation, you're 44 drivers behind schedule! ;-)I was once ahead of it. Back in 1973 I had 18 drivers in my 2-ch setup... a pair of Bose 901s. In those days, Bose was pushing 901 owners to add a second pair, facing outwar... | |
| idler rumble, heat, and record wear--a connection? I'd defer to any real scientist, but warming vinyl (up to some point which I don't know) might make it less susceptible to damage, not more. Cooling vinyl to below room temperature reduces its elasticity. Vinyl subjected to impact stresses in that... | |
| idler rumble, heat, and record wear--a connection? Lew... that was a thoughtful reply. +1 | |
| Gruv Glide - Do you use it? I really can't see how the force of a stylus in the grove, which, considering the contact area, is probably measured in tons per square inch, could be "impeded" by anything. Hmmm... try diving off the Golden Gate Bridge. The landing is softer than... | |
| progress? In one sentence: why in 1980 could I buy a turntable such as a Technics SLD2 for $130 and a cartridge such as an Audio Tecnica 12XE for a total of $160, while today I might spend $3000 and still not be able to track the Telarc 1812 cannons[when I ... | |
| Gruv Glide - Do you use it? ... I think it is a marvel on the VG++ and worse condition LP's that most of us have in our collection. Does knock back a lot of hash and background noise. IOW, it works by leaving a lubricating residue, which in addition to smoothing over any gro... | |
| About Lugnut -- Patrick Malone Raytheprinter,Thanks for the reminder. Pat and I became friends here, if too briefly. We couldn't have differed more in musical and audio tastes and styles, but his good heart made those differences irrelevant. | |
| Sound room flooring advice needed I'm not certain that resonance would be a problem with a floating floor, especially using a dense foam underlayment. But my system has evolved and been tuned while being spiked to the slab, so I don't want some big sonic curveball.Indeed. I can't ... | |
| Rega RP3 Bias/Anti-Skate My experience is similar to Viridian's. With Rega style arms and others, I've obtained optimum sonics (to my ears) by setting A/S to one half or less of the scale on the arm. Many high end arms don't have a scale at all. They assume you'll adjust ... | |
| To those with multiple tables/arms/cartridges I'm always surprised and mildly amused by those who seem to define it as a mission to find the one truth.Glad to have been of service, if only mildly! | |
| To those with multiple tables/arms/cartridges Assuming one has limited resources, as I do, isn't it likely that one thoughtfully chosen component will provide more musical pleasure (however one defines that) than two or more (necessarily) compromised components?I audition different components... | |
| A New Use for VPI Flattening Ring It's obvious... being round, the ring softens the edges of those nasty digital bytes & bits.If you want to be taken seriously, acquire boatload of vintage, NOS VPI rings and do some ring swapping. The adventure never ends. |