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| Audio Supports In my experiments 3 always sounds substantially better than 4, more grounded. Unless you go round with a stethscope and dial in the spikes precisely then 4 is less stable. It always amazes me when designers claim they make the ultimate product, co... | |
| What MC for $1,000-$2,000? The problem is your tonearm the SMEiii is a low mass arm for high compliance cartridges - a total mismatch for the Denon. I would strongly recommend upgrading both the arm and cartridge - something like a Rega RB1000 arm plus Shelter 501 would mee... | |
| Klyne 7PX question Thanks everyone, a fellow audiogon member has kindly scanned and emailed me the manual. | |
| MIT Z-Cord II PC versus Oyaide Tunami GPX Hi I have done the comparison The Oyaide has beautiful rich tone but was very slow as in really slow. Same result on both CD - Meridian and Preamp - Marantz 7. I also found the MIT to be better for me than the Nordost Shiva. The Nordost had tighte... | |
| Upgrade from TW Acustic Raven AC-3 to what? Regarding string Drive - my experience with the final audio ( high mass/ac drive ) was a big improvement in stability going from cotton ( slippage and stretch ) to surgical silk.I'd really like to get a version of this with no knot if possible as ... | |
| Upgrade from TW Acustic Raven AC-3 to what? Response to AolivieroMotor is AC, large ( weighs around 10kg in gunmetal case ), driven by what is described as an oscilater preamplifier, this has sine/cosine outputs, feeding a power amp of which the outputs go back into the preamp and out to th... | |
| Upgrade from TW Acustic Raven AC-3 to what? "We will never see a lightweight TT nor an unsuspended one, with a platter less than 30-50 lbs coming anywhere near the point of closing the book on TT nor approaching its true frontiers.As we all will see - as they will come and go in half years ... | |
| Upgrade from TW Acustic Raven AC-3 to what? Laws of physics say that for every action there is a reaction, therefore any "give" in a bearing means you are losing the leading edge ( I think you will find the downwood pressure/energy of the minute stylus tip is surprisingly high ). For an air... | |
| Upgrade from TW Acustic Raven AC-3 to what? Having ben a high end dealer and set up many turntables - Linn, Pink triangle, Roksan, Sota, Oracle, SP10's, Mapleknoll ( Walker ) etc yrs ago my conclusions are as follows ; go back to first principles - the stylus, arm, platter AND motor drive M... |