dover
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| Tonearms without anti-skate, damage to records? @dover Please explain why you think the skating force does not change linearly as the record is played. Surely it is just a question of geometry? I never said that. On a linear tracking arm there is no skating force. On a pivoted arm it va... | |
| Tonearms without anti-skate, damage to records? @rsf507 @dover I prefer weight on a string Can you explain how you determine the 25 - 30% via this method? Yes - you can use scales to measure the actual falling weight, it won't be exact because there will be some loss due to the mechanism ... | |
| Tonearms without anti-skate, damage to records? unfortunately, not true for straight line trackers because of the very high horizontal effective mass. The stylus and cantilever have to drag this along and even with an air bearing you can observe the cantilever deflecting and if level is not de... | |
| Tonearms without anti-skate, damage to records? But The skating force is not linear in the way its magnitude varies. In that respect Magnetic AS might be inferior to a weight on a string, at least the latter is more or less constant with respect to the magnitude of the AS force. For me I pr... | |
| Tonearms without anti-skate, damage to records? What about damage to the cantilever as well as the record groove. Better off with a tangential tracking arm, no skating forces, no groove damage and no damage to the cantilever suspension from incorrect antiskate application. | |
| LINN SONDEK LP12 BEARING OIL: Alternatives... WARNING No one should use teflon based oil additives like Nylon E20 because when the metal bearing wears metal particles will embed themselves in the teflon and ACCERELATE WEAR. | |
| Current sensing phono stages w/Rega? @jc51373 Where did you get the information that Rega will make a balanced arm? Their US distributor is stating they have NEVER done that for anyone. Local dealer here in New Zealand - I saw the arm when it came back. Distributors and dealers... | |
| Current sensing phono stages w/Rega? The problem with Rega tonearms is that instead of earthing the tonearm through a separate earth lead like most arms, they use the left channel negative wire ( blue ) to earth the arm ( there is a strap inside the arm base connecting the left chann... | |
| A Thought Exercise: Consolidating Analog To One Table and Two Cartridges @neonknight A Kuzma 4Point can be put on it, but the dust cover has to be cut to accommodate the arm. Which 4Point are they talking about - 11 or 9. I would have thought the 4Point9 would fit easily. | |
| A Thought Exercise: Consolidating Analog To One Table and Two Cartridges If you are wedded to your Schroder CB1L you could easily fit a new Kuzma R into your budget. Other options second hand would be Brinkmann or others. Alternately, given the Sota Cosmos is a very good TT why not keep the Sota and buy a new arm with... | |
| Stylus gauge recommendations ? Actually in my view the better ones have a calibration weight to eliminate any variance from depleted batteries etc. I have used the Technics Strain Gauge SH50 for many years, which includes a calibration weight of 1.5 grams and the ability to ad... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm @lewm Dover, I have to think about this some more, but off the top of my head, I do not think it is possible to set up an underhung tonearm so as to achieve two null points on the surface of an LP, no matter what you do with the headshell offse... | |
| Maplenoll Ariadne Signature - Air Supply Question Bruce Thigpen at Eminent Technology should be able to tell you - he was the original designer/owner of Maplkenoll. | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm @lewm There are 2 elements to the VIV Lab arm - Zero offset headshell Underhung geometry What would be interesting would be to set the VIV Lab arm with 2 null points and straight headshell and compare that to the underhung geometry with st... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm @intactaudio That said, when eyeballing it I have always picked the slots that error on trailing side since the thought of the stylus leading the pivot terrifies me. My gut feel is the opposite. If the pivot trails the stylus tip the canti... |