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| SME 20/3 or Oracle Delphi VI or Garrard 301 SME IV bearings- not sure when they changed to the same as the V but read it in a recent review ( possibly a review of the 20/3). I suspect it is relatively recent, but check with SME directly. Their aftermarket service support is excellent. If I ... | |
| SME 20/3 or Oracle Delphi VI or Garrard 301 Agree with Syntax, SME will be around forever to service this ( their main business is military equipment ), and with the new power supply/thicker chassis etc this is the bargain of the SME line. In many ways the SME IV is a better arm now that it... | |
| Flip flopped orchestra? To compound the issue some conductors in the old days moved the instruments around based on hall acoustics. eg Stokowski was well known to swap orchestra sections such as brass from one side to the other in some concert halls. | |
| Motor Controller ugrade for Raven One Turntable Hi all,Just a reminder that if the Raven 1 retails for US$6000, then it must be costing around US$1200 maximum to manufacture. Freight plus distributor margin and retail margin. Half the US1200 is probably overheads and labour. What can you person... | |
| A $300-$400 turntable tweak Ct0507With a centre weight you get rid of the lifting record edges by optimising the thickness of the washer under the record. When you get the right thickness of the washer you can get the records flat around the perimeter. | |
| A $300-$400 turntable tweak On your direct drive you might want to consider the impact of added weights and peripheral clamps as it may be negatively impacting the servos which have been designed for the original mass of the original platter.On my Final Audio Parthenon it us... | |
| 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... |