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| Hagerman Piccolo Zero: New transimpedance head amp Quadratic SUT I spoke with the MC-1’s designer once, and he advised lifting VTA slightly to counteract this. This disqualifies this designer for me because there is only one correct VTA position. To use VTA as a tone control is wrong, and cou... | |
| Source of Fremer's "1 arc second" claim? The 1 arc second claim likely is a quote from a turntable designer - likely a direct drive designer because they like to claim superior speed accuracy to all else. I call it marketing bs or smoke and mirrors. The boffins would claim it to be qua... | |
| Linn Bedrok LP12 Plinth Upgrade Thanks - exactly what I was looking for. I will read "diamond hardened" to mean a "Diamond-Like Carbon Coating" which is likely to be plasma sputtered onto a substrate such as tool steel in a vacuum under tightly controlled conditions, No diam... | |
| What AC motor does BASIS use in their older 2500-2800 series TT They modify the motor - I suspect they blueprint and balance them, they talk about modifying the magnet structure - have you asked them if they can repair your old motor, since it would have the mods and may be cheaper to have rebuilt.? | |
| Korf TA AF 10 tonearm feedback? @ Dover , your statement about azimuth is incorrect and misleading. Indeed there is azimuth adjustment on the Korf arm. Better to own one before making such a statement. @billb321 I made the statement because I asked the designer about the no... | |
| Guidance on cartridge options or new table @woots Personally I don't think your turntable is up to the rest of your system. So rather than try other cartridges I would suggest considering a complete upgrade, depending on budget. However, given the quality of your Burmester 088, I would... | |
| Korf TA AF 10 tonearm feedback? @mgrif104 Good choice - I'm sure you will be happy - the Triplanar is a very good arm, and it is easy to set up very accurately, which is a big plus in my book. | |
| Korf TA AF 10 tonearm feedback? @noromance That was timely - I was thinking of trying the Korf Headshell - but there are reviews that suggest it is light and lean. I had decided not to. I also looked at the Korf arm - the issue I have is that it has non offset bearings whi... | |
| Linn Bedrok LP12 Plinth Upgrade Oh and he reckons the Linn should bounce evenly in a "pistonic" motion. but of course it doesn't - watch the video - when he bounces the platter the side the tonearm sits on bounces much more ( the motion is higher and lower )than the other side ... | |
| Linn Bedrok LP12 Plinth Upgrade @daveyf It's basic engineering - you always put a smear of oil on both parts - housing and spindle to avoid scoring. If you rewatch the video when he first puts the spindle in the first time ( with no oil on the spindle ) he puts it in on an ang... | |
| Linn Bedrok LP12 Plinth Upgrade watch the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqP4eHBSlI4&t=2s minute 5, the shaft simply drops into the bearing with no resistance clunk he removes it, adds a few drops of oil, it simply drops in again clunk again. There is no way ... | |
| Linn Bedrok LP12 Plinth Upgrade Until you personally experience waiting SEVERAL MINUTES for a very heavy platter to drop into it’s bearing well, you cannot imagine how impressive it is. Its not that impressive to me. My TT has a 26kg platter and it takes about 3-4 hours to ... | |
| Unipivot tone arms I do think that some of the unipivots have fundamental issues, like chattering on the point, or some other instability. The Naim Aro is a good example of this. I have ownd a Naim Aro for 25 ears along with a myriad of other arms. It is very sta... | |
| Turntables currently considered top of the range. Do you know what they are ? $150k turntable does not keep accurate speed ? I find it hard to believe. Why doesn't it, what's wrong ? Dunno - spoke to a guy in Canada who owned one years ago. Couldn't get it to run on speed and neither could the dealer or Clearaudio. | |
| Great vintage MM cartridge for my Nottingham Analogue Spacedeck/Spacearm. Recommendations? Audionote IQ3m - an upgrade over what you have now with no risk - its the Goldring 1042 taken up several notches. |