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| Morch DP-8 arm on a Helix Two turntable @vassilis_t I set up the Moerch DP8 for a year or so with a van den hul colibri. On the same turntable I replaced the DP8 with the Kuzma 4Point11. Whilst the DP8 was quite good - the Kuzma was far better, both with the van den hul Calibri and also... | |
| Can upgrading your front end make your bad records sound good? I find that with a top notch well matched, and balanced TT/arm/cartridge combo, if the VTA and alignment are spot on pops and ticks tend to be on a different "plain" to the music and are easily ignored.If the overall sound is out of balance, or th... | |
| help with clearance between sme 3009 arm's tube and arms lifter assembly @Isfarzo If I look at photo 4 it appears the gap between underside of the top of the yoke and the bronze piece looks about the same as the gap between the bottom of the armtube and the bottom half of the yoke.This suggests the arm is too low.On my... | |
| help with clearance between sme 3009 arm's tube and arms lifter assembly @IsfarzoI I have compared your pictures to my own SME - to me it appears the aftermarket knife edge bearings are not correct - the knife edges are too high, resulting in the armtube sitting too low in the carrier.Since you appear to have the armli... | |
| A question of loading... The test is not looking if the sound is better or not but if exist a mistracking or not. This is complete and utter nonsense.In 40 years of high end audio, including distributing and retailing high end audio back in the 80’s, setting up hundrededs... | |
| A question of loading... @daveyf @atmasphere I suspect Ken got tired of people calling about noisy tubes and SUTs are a way to get around that.Yep, I know from experience that customers were complaining about their Koetsu's with the CAT - not enough gain & too much no... | |
| Is my anti-skating too strong. @lewm I’m not an advocate either way, I always base my views on specific cartridge/arm combinations that I have experienced, not speculation..However, regarding high horizontal effective mass, the most interesting experience I have had is that my ... | |
| Is my anti-skating too strong. Horizontal effective mass is 25-35 gm and vertical is 7 gm. A normal pivoted arm might be 12 gm vertical and 13 gm horizontal. 20 gms is much to wide a divergence.You miss the point I made earlier - the effect of splitting the horizontal and verti... | |
| Is my anti-skating too strong. A high effective horizontal mass means that the arm will not swing side to side from the needle tracking the wide modulation of the groove (the full groove swing will be translated to movement of the cantilever instead of some of the movement lost... | |
| Is my anti-skating too strong. @mijostynyou can not uncouple effective mass. If it is attached to the tonearm the tonearm must move it. I said the ET2 has a counterweight that is decoupled in the horizontal plain, I did not say "the effective mass" is decoupled.Now looking at y... | |
| Is my anti-skating too strong. @mijostynBut since you Mention the Eminent Technology arm, it is a rip off of the Walker Proscenium arm. Unfortunately your comments on the Eminent Technology tonearm are wrong and ill-informed.Bruce Thigpen, the designer and owner of Eminent Tech... | |
| Is my anti-skating too strong. @mijostynActually I do run a linear tracker - Eminent Technology ET2Not an English major, but understand force vectors - studied Engineering at University. However, most of the english on this thread is such poor quality, it is the very reason man... | |
| Which VTF Scale are you using? I use the Technics SH-50P1 strain gauge.Alternately, occasionally, the Clearaudio Weightwatcher - but I would never buy one of these because sometimes the cartridge cant be weighed because the cartridge body overhanging the stylus prevents you fro... | |
| Is my anti-skating too strong. @lewm In fact all of our pivoted tonearms mounted so the stylus overhangs the spindle WILL generate a skating force even at the two null points, because of headshell offset angle. Not wishing to stretch this overwrought saga out, but this is not c... | |
| Best cost no object tube phono Hi @rauliruegas - thanks, I'm not in the market, I was curious about the EMT b/c I know a few people who have the unit but never heard it. @syntax thought it was colored.It is. The EMT is old school sound from the 50's and beyond, it lacks the spe... |