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| Tonearm hardware shuffle - recomendations sought! Have a look at - Kuzma 4Point9 - pivot to spindle 212mm Also if you want the fantastic VTA tower don't forget the Kuzma Stogi S12 VTA or Stogi Reference 313 are still great arms at lesser cost than the 4Point11. Both mount at 212mm I have had ... | |
| ''Óriginal parts'', ''identity '' and ''retip'' conundrum I purchased my current Ikeda Kiwame brand new - it was my third Ikeda after the 9 and 9EM. As new means I have not put many hours on it. It is in as new condition, not retipped, not rebuilt, not refurbished, as purchased ( new). I have only put a... | |
| A new way of adjusting anti skate! @lewm I read it that all you do is balance the arm vertically to zero so that it floats. Use your scales at 90degree hold out at the edge of the platter with the scale just above, and then if you apply antiskate the arm will pull towards the sca... | |
| ''Óriginal parts'', ''identity '' and ''retip'' conundrum Who cares about +15 K carts with 4th level (diamond) cantilevers and ''gold plated'' styli (grin). Well obviously you do, because you seem obsessed with trying to delude yourself that retipping is the same as rebuilding. You appear to be com... | |
| Experience with DS Audio Optical Cartridge Systems @larryrs There are no free lunches in audio - the $3k units is not even remotely close to any of the other version from 6-19k up. If you have a decent phono already you are better off to spend the budget on a decent cartridge in my view. | |
| Turntable upgrade recommendations: SME vs AMG vs Technics vs other Why not mix both?, SME TT and the Kuzma tonearm. Contrary to earlier statements by @mijostyn I have seen the Kuzma 4Point11 fitted to SME/20 & 30 TT's. There are a couple of examples on the Kuzma website. It is a straight bolt on with the ... | |
| Turntable upgrade recommendations: SME vs AMG vs Technics vs other The AMG is also an integrated Turntable, tonearm, clamp design. The same as the SME, in terms of integrated design. Why SME instead of AMG? Have you heard both turntables? I have heard both at some length, price to price the SME's are better so... | |
| Silver v Copper wire phono cable @frogman I am surprised you could be bothered with the experiment. I am moving house and have been clearing out old gear. I have a Denon 103D purchased new hardly used. I was going to move it on but thought I should check it was all ok before se... | |
| ''Óriginal parts'', ''identity '' and ''retip'' conundrum Speaking of dead horses - My grandfather had one horse when he built his orchard from remote scrub during the Great Depression. The horse was very obstinate - often when required to cart fruit off to the market it would not move. On some occasio... | |
| ''Óriginal parts'', ''identity '' and ''retip'' conundrum That is why we use ''descriptive names'' like ''iron horse'' for the first seen locomotive or ''the teacher of Alexander'' , etc, etc,.. A great example of a "descriptive name" is the term "a dead horse". An example would be your fantasy... | |
| Experience with DS Audio Optical Cartridge Systems Ken Kessler reviewed the DS optical cartridge( Grand Master?) and the Soundsmith Strain Gauge in Hi Fi News magazine, this year. Basically he said they are both on a level and both game changers. Sure they are game changers - 52000EU for the ca... | |
| A new way of adjusting anti skate! Cant believe all the negative Nancy's on this thread. The OP provided an interesting methodology to measure antiskate force. The methodology can be used for whatever you believe antiskate should be 10%, 20% or whatever. Van den hul specifies a... | |
| ''Óriginal parts'', ''identity '' and ''retip'' conundrum Nandric - it comes down to economics and budget. For the least cost you can get an aftermarket retipper to insert another stylus. For a few more dollars you can send it to the manufacturer and receive back effectively a new cartridge built to th... | |
| ''Óriginal parts'', ''identity '' and ''retip'' conundrum For all of the above it highlights that you can’t beat sending the cartridge back to the manufacturer for refurbishment. Note I did not say retip. I have had my Dynavector Karat Nova rebuilt 3 times - each time it comes back completely rebuilt (i... | |
| van den Hul Colibri - Recondition or leave it alone - how to reach vdH You should send it back to van den hul - he can also tweak the cartridge for your specific tonearm if required. He can also advise on stylus wear and provide set up advice from any unusual wear he sees. |