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| New 55,000 Euro tonearm @mikelavigne i’m not good at ’why’. in my mind i can connect the dots and reason that a field coil assisted uni-pivot bearing has an advantage of a powered magnetic field with zero mass assisting the bearing performance. Mike, it is simply a ... | |
| Introducing Myself @supatrac Audiogon is both an audio market place and a forum. There is no income from the forum. Therefore if folk like you come on to promote your own product, but try to sell it by inserting links in your forum posts, then Audiogon would have ... | |
| New 55,000 Euro tonearm @lewm @mijostyn is all over the place on effective mass and low compliance cartridges. Here's what he said about the Kuzma Safir ( 60g effective mass ) I just wandered onto Kuzma's web site to check on the specs of one turntable only to be co... | |
| Tonearm / Cartridge Compatibility Actually there is more to it. The straight arm tube has an effective mass of only 6g. I would not use this with a moving coil, even though the Quintet is low/medium compliance. You would be better off with a medium/high compliant MM. The S shape... | |
| New 55,000 Euro tonearm @mikelavigne Early days, but how does it compare to the Durand Tosca - particularly in terms of transparency and overall balance. | |
| New 55,000 Euro tonearm The SAT arm tube itself is a similar mass as a conventional arm tube from aluminium. Basically carbon fibre is lighter than aluminium. SAT have used this attribute by using a larger and thicker cf arm tube that significantly reduces unwanted re... | |
| New 55,000 Euro tonearm @larryi The actual bearing housing around the tube ( that rotates for horizontal motion ) is no bigger than my old Zeta tonearm which has a similar layout. The Zeta effective mass is only 14g - so as you point out the apparent bulkiness around t... | |
| New 55,000 Euro tonearm ruby and sapphire is the same material with same characteristics and only different color. Sure - if you use Wikipaedia for your knowledge base. I have seen several moving coil cartridges over the years with cantilevers made from sapphire tub... | |
| New 55,000 Euro tonearm @mijostyn I'm no expert but I do believe Ruby is a form of sapphire. Sure, and diamond is a form of carbon, did you give your wife a lump of carbon for her engagement ring ? | |
| New 55,000 Euro tonearm The saphire Kuzma arm wand confirm what is my take about. In the other side as you I'm not a fan of the tonearm unipivot designs.... Anyway, this unipivot looks as something to experience The Kuzma Safir is not a unipivot. Kuzma ruby choi... | |
| New 55,000 Euro tonearm I can bet you money that the first and second runs are already sold out and the waiting list is longer than a Chick-Filet line. Case in point - when Touraj Moghaddam launched the Vertere tonearm at US$35000 many years ago, he debuted it at the... | |
| New 55,000 Euro tonearm @optimize You are absolutely correct - the Houdini attempts to fix a problem by adding another. You can't measure the groove unless the cartridge is mounted rigidly. It's a bandaid. However when I owned an audio shop I found that many audiophile... | |
| SME 3009 Tonearm rewire @esky Honestly it is not a great arm. Only really suitable for high compliance cartridges, unless you have the 3009R which has a stainless steel arm tube and has a higher effective mass. My advice would be to simply re-solder all the connections... | |
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| SME 3009 Tonearm rewire @esky What difficulties are you having exactly ? I have rewired a few SME's. |