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| Stylus gauge recommendations ? Actually in my view the better ones have a calibration weight to eliminate any variance from depleted batteries etc. I have used the Technics Strain Gauge SH50 for many years, which includes a calibration weight of 1.5 grams and the ability to ad... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm @lewm Dover, I have to think about this some more, but off the top of my head, I do not think it is possible to set up an underhung tonearm so as to achieve two null points on the surface of an LP, no matter what you do with the headshell offse... | |
| Maplenoll Ariadne Signature - Air Supply Question Bruce Thigpen at Eminent Technology should be able to tell you - he was the original designer/owner of Maplkenoll. | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm @lewm There are 2 elements to the VIV Lab arm - Zero offset headshell Underhung geometry What would be interesting would be to set the VIV Lab arm with 2 null points and straight headshell and compare that to the underhung geometry with st... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm @intactaudio That said, when eyeballing it I have always picked the slots that error on trailing side since the thought of the stylus leading the pivot terrifies me. My gut feel is the opposite. If the pivot trails the stylus tip the canti... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm @intactaudio Thanks for the explanation - I did pick up that if the pivot directly above the stylus, then it cannot be self aligning. They claim that the pivoted headshell deals with needle chatter. It is important to note that in both of the ... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm I hear no problem that I can relate to the extreme TAE, with my RS Labs RS-A1. " , fine with me. Doesn't the RS Labs RS-A1 have a rotating headshell - therefore its like comparing apples and oranges with the Viv Lab | |
| Small form factor, SS phono preamp recommendation. @oranfoster Check out the Black Label iPhono 3 - superb, punches well above its price. Can run with phonos up to $5k. | |
| SME Model 15 MK2 vs Feickert Blackbird or Firebird or Sota Millennia Eclipse @chauncey Ouch not a VPI. Unless you want a new TT or the smaller footprint of the SME, I would recommend getting the SOTA serviced and upgraded - it is still a great deck, more than competitive today. Similarly with the SME IV.VI - if you are... | |
| Grounding a turntable and a tonearm @justinrphillips The standard SOTA armboard is MDF and non conductive, so the tonearm ground and TT ground cannot form a ground loop. I would connect both the arm ground and TT ground to the phono grounding post. You can get carbon fibre brush... | |
| VdH cartridge on heavier tonearm @milimetr re the Phasemation - in that case the Phasemation is medium compliance - quite unusual for such a ow impedance MC. It doesn't alter my view on the van den hul - I have sold and set up several over the years. Here's van den hulls phil... | |
| VdH cartridge on heavier tonearm @milimetr here you go http://www.music2.nl/van-den-hul-analogue/models-van-den-hul/ | |
| VdH cartridge on heavier tonearm @milimetr The compliance of the Phasemation PP1000 8. It's much lower than the van den hul. The van den hul frog has a dynamic compliance of 14, static compliance of 28. The phasemation is a much better match for your arm. | |
| If I could afford, I’d purchase 100% Oswald Mills Audio gear Perhaps, but why over years have you been so persistently antagonistic toward Richard? Thats not true. In actual fact if you read the thread on the Eminent Technology air bearing arm I simply disputed his suggestion of adding 30 grams of mass... | |
| VdH cartridge on heavier tonearm @milimetr I wouldn't advise using the Frog on such a heavy arm. It is a medium compliance cartridge, van den Hul's reference arm is an SME V with 11g effective mass. His test arm in the workshop is the Technics EPA 100 which has en effective mas... |