fsonicsmith
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| Two Turntables? Why Like my hero Art Dudley, I wanted the two most iconic vintage tt's of all time, the TD124 and the 301. Both of mine are maxed out in terms of both restoration and performance upgrades. It just so happens that my TD124 was purchased the year I was ... | |
| What's a better choice? Manley Steelhead Phono or Audio Research Reference 2SE Phono? I have ARC gear (Ref 6 and Ref 150SE) and the Steelhead, all bought new. I love the sound I am getting and love the Steelhead. Where I can't help you is that I have never tried the Ref 2SE. The Steelhead has an outboard PSU but that alone means li... | |
| TechDAS lll experience @lewm I agree wholeheartedly. I tried to participate over there and I discovered that the group is made up of about 20 regulars and the moderator is the "owner" of the site and seems to occupy some alternative version of the universe. The fact tha... | |
| Spendor D7 vs. Harbeth Super HL5+ If I had a larger room, I would own O/96's. I listened to both over and over at the 2018 Axpona and preferred the O/96's to the O/93's. The O/93's are more polite, the O/96's are party-girls. I know calling a human a "party-girl" is not currently ... | |
| Spendor D7 vs. Harbeth Super HL5+ Prof has incredible listening and writing skills, but I do mildly disagree with him about the Spendors. In my case, I have a pair of walnut D7.2's purchased as nearly brand new demos. I also have a pair of DeVore O/93's which Prof has written much... | |
| TechDAS lll experience Here you go (or so I hope).https://www.whatsbestforum.com/threads/af3-premium-arrived.26477/ | |
| Direct Drive vs. Idler Drive vs. Belt drive You gotta love this hobby. I've been in it since the age of 15 so 45 years. The other day I was listening to a well recorded live album of an artist I have seen many times, and on certain (but not all) cuts it was startling how real it sounded. I ... | |
| Direct Drive vs. Idler Drive vs. Belt drive i’ve owned a number of top flight direct drive turntables; including the Rockport Sirius III, the SP-10 Mk2 and Mk3, and now the Wave Kinetics NVS for the last 9 years. taken singularly; none of those were obviously lacking in speed solidity and ... | |
| Direct Drive vs. Idler Drive vs. Belt drive I found Herb Reichert's piece in the latest edition of S'Phile uhhh....interesting. He reviewed the J.Sikora Initial which is belt drive and in an apparent effort to heap his usual unfettered Primaluna type hyperbolic and unrealistic praise upon i... | |
| Tonearm mount to the plinth vs arm board vs rotating arm board vs isolated tower The arguments just go round and round like a record. Most of us manage to get good sound and most of us have no idea why. Most of us think we have things figured out as to why our systems sound good to the point we will pick up our figurative swor... | |
| Setting Anti-Skate on VPI Fatboy Tonearm I agree with millercarbon here. Use the Peter Lederman method. Find a record that has a long wide leadout which as you know is at the innermost part of the record near the label. Drop the stylus in between two widely spaced lead out grooves. You w... | |
| Tonearm mount to the plinth vs arm board vs rotating arm board vs isolated tower @terry9; "offend" is not the appropriate word choice here. . I simply felt your post was a bit strong and worthy of comment. I will never challenge someone's love of their own table no matter how humble it might be. But when someone claims that th... | |
| Tonearm mount to the plinth vs arm board vs rotating arm board vs isolated tower Outboard belt drive with a flywheel allows excellent isolation of the motor. I say, "Let’s have it all !" Actually, a huge "THANK YOU" to all three of the above, who guided me to the above design. Also to the late Tom Fletcher. I certainly could ... | |
| Tonearm mount to the plinth vs arm board vs rotating arm board vs isolated tower The OP in this thread, is asking about an idler.@kanchi647The idlers are one of the crudest, oldest form of turntable, and with them comes.....(based on my personal direct experiences)The most vibrations, least isolation, the most noise.That's w... | |
| Tonearm mount to the plinth vs arm board vs rotating arm board vs isolated tower We were discussing the Garrard 301 at the Axpona 2019 room featuring his turntable, a 301 on a Dobbins plinth with a Reed arm and a top of the line VdH cartridge and Magico speakers. I don't recall the electronics in that room. The room sponsor wa... |