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| turntable for Marantz 8b and 7C Hi there - your Thorens 124 is potentially very good. However it would need a good service and probably new cartridge. The servicing may be expensive. You also need to identify the tonearm as this will determine what cartridges are compatible or a... | |
| EMT 927 vs. Micro Seiki 5000 or 8000 - different? Lewm,No offence at all, always looking to learn & too old to worry. DD's friends have or have had that I have heard many times are the Goldmund Studio ( with custom power supply ) ( 3 of them ) , Kenwood L07D ( 2 of those ), Technics SP10 mk3 ... | |
| EMT 927 vs. Micro Seiki 5000 or 8000 - different? Lewm - Please define belt creep. I have no slip and no stretch in the belt. I listen to heaps of classical and piano and in my previous posts I have mentioned that piano music often often lays bare wow and speed instability in turntables which is ... | |
| EMT 927 vs. Micro Seiki 5000 or 8000 - different? Raul,Use to import Martin Logan/Apogee/Conterpoint/Conrad Johnson/Krell/MIT/Kimber/Quicksilver/Sota/Sumiko/Pink Triangle/Proac/Carnegie/Zeta/Alphason/SME and shop was agent for Linn/Roksan/Harbeth/Onix/Musical Fidelity/Townsend plus probably forgo... | |
| EMT 927 vs. Micro Seiki 5000 or 8000 - different? Hi Lewm,Belt creep is definitely an issue - rubber belts stretch, with string drive you need something that doesn't - cotton stretches badly, I have found surgical silk doesn't at all. My turntable speed never changes so I only check it once a yea... | |
| Interface: Cartridge-Preamp or Cart-Tonearm? Arm cartridge has to be more important - a mistracting cartridge can wreck the most valuable component of your system - the records.Back in the glory days of analogue when dealers had multiple turntables/arms as a dealer I found that certain arms ... | |
| EMT 927 vs. Micro Seiki 5000 or 8000 - different? Raul,Forgot to mention - Final have always done complete bespoke systems. Their cartridge at the time was a rebadged Fidelity research - looks like an FR7. I have both an Ikeda Kiwame and a vintage Dynavector Nova 13D ( Ebony bodied version ) whic... | |
| EMT 927 vs. Micro Seiki 5000 or 8000 - different? Raul/Dertonarm,One other thing on the power supply on the Final - as well as having separate regulation for 33 & 45 it also has a "torque control". There is definitely an optimum point for sound. With regards to the string drive I cant try a r... | |
| EMT 927 vs. Micro Seiki 5000 or 8000 - different? Raul - thanks for feedback. The Final was built in the 70's and early 80's - which means Kitamura was using ac sine wave generator power supply 35 years ago - and yet we are barely seeing this today. There seems to have been much colaboration in J... | |
| EMT 927 vs. Micro Seiki 5000 or 8000 - different? Raul,In the case of the high mass Final Audio that I have, I think the key attributes are speed stability. Most suspended table/rubber belts have wow and pitch problems on piano in my experience. I note that many of the high mass designs produced ... | |
| Gyrodec Best Tonearm Hi Melanco, I think you are right in upgrading the deck first. For what its worth I ran a Koetsu Black in a Zeta on an Oracle yrs ago and the Zeta/Koetsu is a particularly synergistic match - sum of parts greater than the whole. This may give you ... | |
| Got the table now I need a good arm and cart combo Years ago I ran a Rock for a while. I removed the trough and ran an Eminent Technology air bearing arm with a Shure V15 Type 5 - actually sounded pretty good. ET's can be had quite cheap if you look. | |
| EMT 927 vs. Micro Seiki 5000 or 8000 - different? Dertonam,Just to add my 2 cents - turntables owned - Linn, Pink Triangle, Sota, Oracle, Well Tempered, Roksan, Garrard 301 - current turntable used and much preferred is the Final Labs Parthenon - this is like a micro seiki steroids. It is in fact... | |
| Gyrodec Best Tonearm To Nandric,Advice has a c not an s.I am impressed that your advice is much better. At least I run my tonearms actually attached to the turntable.Cheers. | |
| Gyrodec Best Tonearm Instead of upgrading your tonearm, have you considered upgrading the Gyrodec with updated power supply/bearing/platter ? You might get a bigger return from power supply upgrades and or an overhaul of the Zeta by Audio Origami - bearing check and r... |