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| If I could afford, I’d purchase 100% Oswald Mills Audio gear Richard Krebs designed and probably built at least the first prototypes of K3. Richard is an honorable gentleman and a qualified engineer. Richard is not a qualified engineer. I have known him for 30 plus years - he has an electrical certifica... | |
| Refurbish Fidelity Research Tonearms Fin Heureuse Pigalle Paris | |
| Best container to move prized records between homes? Thanks! Last time I shifted a large record collection I had double walled cardboard boxes custom made cost was not much more than regular boxes. Trick was to keep the boxes smaller in terms of numbers of records so that they are easy to lift and addition... | |
| What Does It Take To Surpass A SME V? Belt Drives in General have Two Bearings. One utilised to Mount and Rotate the Platter, and one to supply a Lateral Force for a Coupling (Belt ) to rotate the Platter at a required Speed. Two Spindles in use that can’t be set into their housing... | |
| What Does It Take To Surpass A SME V? As I am a long term user of Idler Drives that stretches back to the Nineties and in the Country where the Idler Revival was quite prominent So how long have you lived in Japan ? there is a decent amount of info’ to suggest that the RB 300 pro... | |
| What Does It Take To Surpass A SME V? RB 300 was as a good a match as a SME V That's fantasy land - I sold both in the mid 80's, RB300 was not a patch on the SME V regardless of drive type. Again interesting how Linn, with their TOTR Tonearm of this era, was a close mimic of a S... | |
| What Does It Take To Surpass A SME V? Actually the RB300 was released in 1983, the first SME V prototype was shown at audio shows in 1984. Given that both arm tubes are cast, requiring moulds to be developed, SME must have had the arm in development before the RB300 was released. | |
| Anyone with experience mating a Kuzma 4Point 9 tonearm to a SME 15 turntable ? @rost Since you already have the SME 15, I suggest you put a test weight of 920g ( the mass of the 4point9 ) on the armboard to see if you can balance the turntable - if you can then the 4point9 is an excellent arm and you are good to go. | |
| Anyone with experience mating a Kuzma 4Point 9 tonearm to a SME 15 turntable ? @rost I note that the SME arms are around 700g vs the Kuzma 4point9 at 920g. Have you considered getting a Kuzma front end - Kuzma R with 4point9 is less than the SME 15/V. In fact for around the same money as the complete SME 15/V you can get ... | |
| New Audio Technica ART9XA Up and Running..... I'd go the ART9XI over the ART9XA because I do not like the brittle sound of the shibata profile used in the XA - the X! as well as the new ART20 both use special line contact rather than the shibata. | |
| What Does It Take To Surpass A SME V? You can not tune that arm to any cartridge. It is physically impossible. Anything that is hung off that arm is mass that has to be accounted for. If you do not want the mass of the counterweight to affect the horizontal mass of the arm just remov... | |
| What Does It Take To Surpass A SME V? @atmasphere cc @frogman I left the ET2 out on several counts. The first being that the lateral tracking mass is a multiple of its vertical tracking mass. This makes selecting a cartridge rather difficult- Actually you are looking at th... | |
| What Does It Take To Surpass A SME V? **** Back in the old days when the SME5 was first made, there were only three top arms; the SME5, the Graham unipivot and the Triplanar. **** Thats a pretty myopic view of the world. There were many others at that time - Syrinx PU3, Alphason ... | |
| What Does It Take To Surpass A SME V? @dogberry And yet, somehow I expect a turntable bolted to the South Col of Everest would find itself on a fairly solid platform! Yes but trying to adjust VTA accurately with frozen nuts can be difficult. | |
| What Does It Take To Surpass A SME V? @pindac @lewm You guys are missing the real point - to measure the groove accurately the tonearm must be "anchored" in position relative to the platter, with no differential movement. As to whether this is achieved via a common chassis linking ... |