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| How are you playing your precious MONO Vinyl? lalitk OP Are you concerned with aligning/calibrating an advanced stylus shape? I cannot understand using a conical stylus UNLESS it is specifically for the very old wide grooves, the opposite of your intentions. Without a doubt, the lighter/s... | |
| Tonearm ...... Acos Lustre GST-801 ..... Yea/Nay Acos Lustre GST-801 specs: 225 mm center of spindle to center of pivot 15mm overhang 240mm combined effective length drill a 38mm diameter hole for the arm post base plate (no screws) is 58mm outer diameter it has a thick heavy round metal... | |
| Diamond vs Aluminum tweeters for B&W 800 series for future backup, you could have someone convert your old ones to Silk/Titanium https://www.ebay.com/itm/156310534334 | |
| Diamond vs Aluminum tweeters for B&W 800 series I forgot the tweeters were the ugly tapered bullets. tweeter replacement video, he forgets to explain you should do it barefoot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M05uQtj6g0w | |
| Diamond vs Aluminum tweeters for B&W 800 series boostedis I agree, someone is missing the point. is it a high performance tweeter, handles say 1,500 to 20,000 essentially equally? so, the crossover will send it what? whatever the content is, everything the amp sends starting at ____? doe... | |
| Soundsmith Zephyr lll retip 1st, I would only consider advanced stylus shapes, (except Mono, I keep an elliptical and microridge) Ever since owning Shure's V15VxMR Beryllium Cantilever/Microridge Stylus way back when, I'm a fan of lighter/stiffer cantilevers, especially if ... | |
| Diamond vs Aluminum tweeters for B&W 800 series roxy54 A client once told me, "I don’t have to do anything". That quieted the room. OP might want to consider the crossover, but slight changes might not be obvious, and who knows if they will be detrimental. Any product, when considering su... | |
| Diamond vs Aluminum tweeters for B&W 800 series OP, I wasn’t paying enough attention. I just saw the prices you mentioned, I would not personally spend that unless I had young ears and could readily tell the difference. Hasn’t anybody found a nice SEAS or SCANSPEAK, MOREL, DYNAUDIO, FOCAL VIF... | |
| Diamond vs Aluminum tweeters for B&W 800 series oh yeah, there’s some Beryllium tweeters out there, that is my preferred cartridge cantilever material, lightest/stiffest .... I just acquired 2 vintage used and 1 NOS, but don’t look at beryllium when thinking unhappy thoughts, it shatters easily... | |
| Diamond vs Aluminum tweeters for B&W 800 series shattered? usually you burn out the coil, what do you mean shattered? I would buy a new pair and have 1 working spare. is it possible the bad tweeter can be repaired? have you looked into that? my active horn tweeters and horn midrange drivers ... | |
| How are you playing your precious MONO Vinyl? iopscrl thanks for sharing your extensive knowledge. I think your Technics SP-15 is a great TT. Many years ago, Wayne, my friend at Harveys, 45th st, nyc called me whenever something great was coming out of trade-in/repair to their used shelf... | |
| How are you playing your precious MONO Vinyl? sorted the list OP gave us 1st by tracking force, lightest on top 2nd by stylus type, line contact at the top (all line contact are subtle variants of original shibata, avoiding patent disputes) (note no SAS with further increased contact area ... | |
| Integrated that blew you away https://6moons.com/audioreviews/cayin/a88t.html I truly love the sound of the 6snl and 6sl7 tubes, (all prior owned units used 12’s), and I changed and prefer KT88’s to the 6550 it came with //////////////////////////////////////// make some ef... | |
| How are you playing your precious MONO Vinyl? faustuss "The only mono’s I have are reissues which are all lacquered with modern stereo heads these days. I simply use my stereo micro line cartridge and throw the mono switch on my phono preamp and I’m golden. No muss no fuss!" Exactly what I... | |
| How are you playing your precious MONO Vinyl? anyone like the idea of MC at33 mono rebuilt with new boron cantilever/new microridge stylus? here's one on Yahoo Auctions, 20 hours left, with OEM used conical on aluminum. (I bought mine with a broken cantilever) https://yahoo.aleado.com/lot?a... |