harold-not-the-barrel
Responses from harold-not-the-barrel
| Why not magnetic tapes in stead of vinyl records? My good old c-cassette Uriah Heep: Look at Yourself (Island tapes, UK 1971) outperforms a modern Japanese super technology SHM-CD in terms of dynamics and musicality. It simple sounds more right. This c-cassette does have distortions in some exten... | |
| turntable mats: should I use one? Moonglum & Dave, Very well I will try the 233 g brass clamp again but if I remember correctly it doesn´t improve things because it may be too light with Reso-Mat. | |
| turntable mats: should I use one? Dear Moonglum, Quite rightly so :-)I´m planning to buy a 1 kg mat under Reso-Mat, not to improve sonics but add mass on the maglev bearing.And oh yes, for fun too... : ) | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners You ET-2 guys are the mad scientists `Ö´ you constantly and fearlessly keep experimenting. Fantastic hobby, very interesting reading. :-) | |
| Ultimate Idler Drive Robyatt, What on Earth are you doing ? Just kidding ;)Please describe your current TT, TA and the best/finest cart you are running. I have the Salvation direct rim drive motor with a dual layer very ´eavy soapstone deck + the Terminator T3Pro line... | |
| turntable mats: should I use one? Dear Moonglum, Unfortunate many or maybe most LPs are not perfectly flat.Using Reso-Mat for a convex LP there are only the 3 inner points contacting record. The grooved area, actually the whole record is spinning in air. The other side is concave ... | |
| turntable mats: should I use one? The inner cones are 0.5 cm from the label area. Actually all the cones are under the run-in & run-out areas. The reduced size (for Technics SL-1200 etc.) has the outer cones under the outer groove area:http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RESO-MAT-TURNTA... | |
| Telarc 1812 revisited Dear Raul, What on Earth have you been doing ? Is that new TA design of your very own so good that you don´t post anymore ? You already know that I do care for trackability, for the last 30 years have and will do. At the highest VTF recommended, m... | |
| turntable mats: should I use one? No way. Don´t waste your time & money on mats whatever they are. They change the sound, sometimes may improve it in some extent but not improve it as whole.Buy a Reso-Mat instead. Vinyl sits on acetate spikes allowing resonances vanish into ai... | |
| Stylus replacement for Shure V-15 v MR The Jico SAS takes the performance of the original VN5MR (US & Mexico) for the SHURE ULTRA 500 to a higher level. Furthermore, it does not change f.r nor balance, simply adds information in all frequencies. Another evidence that Japanese take ... | |
| Best tonearm for London Reference Cartridge 1. Terminator T3Pro air bearing liner tracker from Trans-Fi Audio, UK2. SME III with liquid & teak damped hyper rigid S-shaped 5.5 gram titanium-nitride wand, with option of extra mass that can be added on headshell (2.2 or 4.4 g) if necessary | |
| spring loaded platform non-suspended turntable Excellent guidance, particularly from Pryso.My 50 kg non-suspended soapstone plinth TT sits on 4 Audioquest sorbothane Big Feet, these act as shock absorbers.This very heavy, in some extent suspended TT sits on plywood/aluminium plate that sits on... | |
| ?sound quality diff between quadrophonic & stereo No. The Quad versions I have are slighty different due to different mix in some songs. Very interesting, for example "Tyranny & Mvtation" by Blve Öyster Cvlt. I have a micro ridge stylus too ;) | |
| Glanz moving magnet cartridges Fascinating is the search for the mysterious MF...and MM/MI cart(s). This may very well be a neverending story/thread, after all... Still, logically the highest digit confirms the finest, so the 71 must be that ? | |
| Glanz moving magnet cartridges Dear Vetterone, Many thanks for your very informative review of those vintage GLANZ flagships. Maybe the MFG-XXXLX series were imported exclusively to this North European Frontier, kinda opposite to the Japanese market (grin). I should have had bo... |