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| Is the Hana SH being discontinued? I hope so, its overrated. For a vintage turntable, the arm bearings may well be less than perfect, and I would use a medium to high compliance moving magnet or moving iron for best results. Examples would be MI - Grado, Soundsmith, Nagaoka , MM... | |
| Developing A List Of Tonearm Candidates For A SOTA Turntable After 42 years working in R&D I only pursue and fix real problems. Are you saying that incorrect VTA is not a real problem. If you believe that I would suggest your optimum cartridge would be something with a conical or spherical stylus. | |
| Garrard 301 - Project MDF is basically wood dust and glue. The reason MDF has no purchase when you screw into it is because the glue is the most expensive component, and the manufacturers only put enough in to just hold the wood dust together and no more. It is designe... | |
| Developing A List Of Tonearm Candidates For A SOTA Turntable I set VTA by ear using a known sample of records. My ears are more accurate than my eyes and I believe this would be true for most. I sample thick and thin and from that testing I know exactly how must to adjust - for convenience I divide my coll... | |
| Anyone ever listened to a vintage Victor Laboratory X1 cartridge Ps: he said everyone except Raul and Dover Thanks - I prefer to buy dodgy used cartridges from Japan directly rather than 3rd party resellers. | |
| Advice on a recently purchased Maplenoll Athena Bob Dilger was the last owner for a short period before he drove the company under and went to work for Lloyd Walker. | |
| Advice on a recently purchased Maplenoll Athena You could email Bruce Thigpen at Eminent Technology. https://www.eminent-tech.com He was the designer and owner of Mapleknoll. | |
| Feel Silly Asking This Question Alignment Parameters Dover, I’m not quite sure what the argument is really about but my calculations suggest that a change in EL from 222mm to 225mm would increase effective mass by only about 2%. @lewm The OP wants to use an ARC protractor. As I pointed out ear... | |
| Feel Silly Asking This Question Alignment Parameters " Apparently you think its fine to set up tonearms with an accuracy of +-0.3mm " You did it not me,so don't put words in my mouth. Actually you suggested mounting the arm 3mm out of manufacturers specs. Here is your actual post. rauli... | |
| Feel Silly Asking This Question Alignment Parameters Who is way wrong with the numbers is not only you but OL too because 222 + 17.53 is not 239 or 9.5". One of my options that I posted puts the best number nearer to that 239 with a difference of only 0.1mm instead 0.3mm. Anyway, numbers just do n... | |
| Feel Silly Asking This Question Alignment Parameters No it’s not wrong because OL says a margin of +,- 2mm. In the other side we can change those numbers with out any negative consequence because 225 means longer EL and les distortion. This is poor advice. The OP expressed the desire to use an A... | |
| Step Up Transformers….Are they Worth the Trouble? Steve Gutenberg recently reviewed a new Zesto Tube Phone Preamp, but he intentionally chose the MM one not the more expensive MM/MC one, but instead used, you guessed it, SUTs with it. The more expensive Zesto phonos use a SUT internally wit... | |
| Feel Silly Asking This Question Alignment Parameters @rauliruegas @neonknight At P2S 225 distance L¨fgren B gives you 17.53 that has no consequwences in your 17.5 desired overhang. Your numbers are wrong. The Agile manual from Origin Live sats - Centre of mounting hole to centre of platter... | |
| Feel Silly Asking This Question Alignment Parameters I don't know why you folk don't read the manual. @neonknight Origin live Agile ( standard 9.5" arm 239mm ) has a recommended pivot to spindle distance 222mm. Overhang for Baerwald A is 17.3mm - offset 22.99 Overhang for Baerwald B is 17.75 - o... | |
| Step Up Transformers….Are they Worth the Trouble? Jico SAS above - see the ridge around the top - some call it a micro ridge. Others call. it a microscanner. Have a closer look at the bottom right hand of your diagram "contact with records" there is a ridge at the bottom of the stylus. |