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| How are you playing your precious MONO Vinyl? lalitk OP 1st: is it a True Mono Cartridge? Always ask that. No signal generated by vertical motion is what you want. next: what stylus profile shape? then the cantilever material? because good mono can be VERY Dynamic tracking force? (a lo... | |
| How are you playing your precious MONO Vinyl? here's the AT160ml Cartridge without a headshell, from Samurai, I took a chance on two used with headshells, VAS checked them, they both were good! One body turned out to be a model 150 with 160ml beryllium/microridge stylus, seller gave me 1/3 re... | |
| How are you playing your precious MONO Vinyl? lalitk OP I used the shorter SME 3009 on my Thorens TD124 for many years, loved the knife edge design. So obvious what everything does. Note: those arms have a concealed rubber tube that isolates the rear counterweight tube section, if buying use... | |
| How are you playing your precious MONO Vinyl? lalitk OP, everyone I can lower all 3 arms onto an LP, it plays perfect speed (as Halcro proved) so I can compare 2 or even 3 cartridges within seconds by my two dials on my SUT I make any needed volume adjustments when I change, my Cayi... | |
| How are you playing your precious MONO Vinyl? after ’generally’ getting the arm level Removable Headshells, even high quality ones, might not be perfectly level with the arm, so you need to check both Azimuth and VTA at the headshell, when down on the mirror or in the groove, suspension prop... | |
| How are you playing your precious MONO Vinyl? @danmar123 ditto: Wishing you a speedy recovery! I often listen to Mono from my reclining chair on my porch, where most of my recovery from 31 surgeries has occurred, and often use the Mode Switch, so true mono cartridge, then L+R to L projec... | |
| Masimo gives up. link to the story https://news.harman.com/releases/masimo-to-sell-consumer-audio-business-to-harman-international | |
| How are you playing your precious MONO Vinyl? A Happy Mono Day: at VAS, and at Home. I’m so lucky to live near and have Steve and Ray Leung of VAS as friends as well as problem solvers. They are quite busy. They rewired the tonearm I bought on eBay (came with no right channel), and put a ne... | |
| How are you playing your precious MONO Vinyl? note that Most (not all) Mono Cartridges' compliance material is designed to RESTRICT vertical movement. from Audio Technica, "Generally speaking, it is possible to play a mono LP using a stereo phono cartridge, but if it is a true mono record, ... | |
| How are you playing your precious MONO Vinyl? danmar123 Nice setup! for those here who want to know the difference, i.e. "that’s good enough for my small need". You are a good one to tell us what happens in your system with your particular Mono LPs. a. play the stereo cartridge with th... | |
| How are you playing your precious MONO Vinyl? rhg3 I’m glad, I have fun and have the time, but note, in eagerness I make my share of errors, I am always glad when others catch them. | |
| How are you playing your precious MONO Vinyl? lewm, "For the umpteenth time, using a mono switch when playing a mono LP with a stereo cartridge is not per se going to increase noise because of "sum"-ing. Phase cancellation takes care of that, and reduction, not summing, of common mode noise ... | |
| How are you playing your precious MONO Vinyl? Everyone, the Aurorasound EQ-100 is uniquely different, from the manual: "When a stereo cartridge is used, any vertical signal on a record is cancelled by an internal circuit of EQ-100. Only the R+L horizontal signal are detected to assure a su... | |
| How are you playing your precious MONO Vinyl? Woodsong Plinths OP, I’m excited for you, I had a Thorens TD124, single arm, I can imagine the Garrard’s are a similar degree of AWESOME. Best Bass I ever heard, here or anywhere since. I’m happy with what I am getting, but you never forget the d... | |
| How are you playing your precious MONO Vinyl? dwette you are correct, about the AI error I posted: many true mono cartridges have 4 pins (both of mine do), and RIAA being used (for some, not all) earlier, from 1954 "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The RIAA equalization curve for pl... |