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| 2020 update : JC Verdier La Platine I had a Platine Verdier with the MDF plinth for a year or two.It got slaughtered by my Final Audio VTT1 and hence I sold it off.The following mods narrowed the performance gap -I removed the sprung feet, and cut marine ply inserts with stainless s... | |
| Most hyped turntable, tonearm, and cartridge? You can’t ignore Technics because almost ever record made with Technics motor involved in lacquer cutting process on the Neumann cutting lathe. There is a Technics Direct Drive motor under the Neumann platter when the cutting stylus working on doi... | |
| Most hyped turntable, tonearm, and cartridge? As regards Garrard 301 there is a factual answer.An idler wheel taking motor noise and vibration directly to the platter is clearly a bad design. I like a bit of rumble - reminds me of the great Kingsway Hall in London where you could hear the tra... | |
| Most hyped turntable, tonearm, and cartridge? "most overhyped turntable" Depends on context.Historically the most overhyped turntable would have to be the Tin Sondek. In the early days the Linn Doctor needed to visit multiple times a year to keep it stable.On these forums the most overhyped T... | |
| Koetsu Cartridge on Acoustical Systems Axiom! I still do not like the design of the head shell.The Axiom headshell is based on the old Orsonic headshell, where twin beams are used to better control resonance and energy from the cartridge. I have many head shells and prefer the Orsonic to most... | |
| Koetsu Cartridge on Acoustical Systems Axiom! The Axiom is a lighter arm and the head shell is not what you would call a stiff design. The Axiom would be better with a cartridge in the 13 to 20 um/mN range. This is not correct. The Axiom has an effective mass over 20g and will match the low c... | |
| Direct Drive vs. Idler Drive vs. Belt drive This is something I posted in wbf to a gentleman that was against servos in DD TT because he said that he can hear the damage that servos makes to what he listening through a DD turntables ( as the Technics SP10MK3 or Denon DP100 and the like. ) .... | |
| Hum with Ypsilon MC26L SUT that goes away with touching @kanchi647Yes, but star quad will have much higher capacitance than a single twisted pair. Plus they use a ribbon wire - it would be interesting to measure the capacitance - I suspect it is not as low as you might think.Otherwise it could be the s... | |
| Hum with Ypsilon MC26L SUT that goes away with touching @kanchi647Unfortunately like many expensive audio cables, the Stage 3 Concepts phono cables are rich on fancy materials, multiple shields, and fancy sounding jargon. The reality is that there are no electrical specifications on their website for t... | |
| Internal Wire Upgrade for SME V The best place to get an SME rewired is by SME themselves.SME still service their arms, and will rewire upon request.Their service is superb, not cheap, but often they replace parts, even the whole armtube if they are not up to scratch. Your arm c... | |
| Looking for tonearm inspiration For home use the anti-skating must be set up equal to tracking force (less for advanced profiles). At least this is a basic recommendation, following this advice, if the tracking force is 2g then the anti-skating is about 2g too. If the tracking f... | |
| Looking for tonearm inspiration Things could be that you are a tube audiophile No, I select amplifiers based on their ability to drive the particular speakers to be used and the consequential sound quality of the COMBINED PAIRING.Nobody in their right mind would try and drive S... | |
| 2020 update : JC Verdier La Platine On the Cartridge end, I have been persuaded by the opinion that vintage cartridges from the 70's and 80's are comparable in quality to the some of today's more expensive offerings. One of the project right now is to seek out a vintage cartridge, s... | |
| Looking for tonearm inspiration Chak, as I understand it the Pro version of the FR64/66fx is simply one that comes without the anti-skating device. A bit of a mystery actually, ’cause why should a pro user go without it and us regular folks supposedly need it and cartridge manuf... | |
| Looking for tonearm inspiration @atmasphere if not headroom explain how those 25 watts can handle the Scintilla. It can't. I distributed Apogees in the 80's. Heard the Classe amps on Apogees including Scintillas many times. They drove them but the sound was awful, big upper base... |