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| Stylus Force Gauge Here's the Canrong gauge accurate to within .01 grams for $13. You'll need to buy a calibration weight for a couple of bucks as well because at that price it doesn't come with it. http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.16269I have the Canrong r... | |
| Silver vs cryogenic treated copper Don't have a lot of experience with silver wire, but every piece of cable that I've had cryoed has resulted in improved sound quality. The description of dry, lifeless and less micro details would, in fact, be exactly the opposite of what I've hea... | |
| Which cart works with Ortofon AS309S 12inch arm Effective mass of 3.5-4 grams without headshell makes absolutely no sense to me on this arm but I could be wrong. If I am not mistaken, Jelco makes these arms for Ortofon and the 9" version of the arm most closely resembling the 309S with Jelco's ... | |
| How to tame brightness I also agree with Duke's suggestion to felt the tweeters. Just go to any fabric store and pick up some felt and double sided scotch tape. You can choose a color to match the speakers. Carefully cut a hole slightly larger than the tweeter and apply... | |
| Quick Cartridge Questions Looks like your Goldring uses a Fritz Gyger line contact stylus so it should be a very long lasting stylus.If you're basically buying new records, keeping them clean is generally not a problem. However, if you're buying a lot of used vinyl then in... | |
| Quick Cartridge Questions Stylus life will, generally speaking, be determined by stylus profile. Cheaper, bonded conical styli would be the worst, probably not lasting more than 500 hours. A high quality nude conical/spherical stylus like those found on the Denon 103/103R ... | |
| Footers? An art, not a science. Exactly. Entirely subjective in terms of what you want to achieve. In this area, DIY or cheap and cheerful can be as effective as expensive and exotic.Choose your poison. If you're looking for increased "detail, resolution, ... | |
| Woofers Gone Wild Ralph, just curious: are your speakers a sealed design or are they ported? | |
| Woofers Gone Wild The KAB filter is very high quality and extremely transparent. I've used it in the past and my current phono stage has a very high quality built-in subsonic filter. In fact, I'd argue that you should actually experience slightly improved sound qua... | |
| Porter Port break in ? Yes. Any cryoed receptacle is likely to take as much as 30 days to really settle in. What you are hearing is normal. Bright, etched, thin, lots of detail. If you really want to burn the receptacle in, take it right out of your system and replace t... | |
| Excessive woofer movement with a VPI JMW 9 ? Ported speakers or ported sub + vinyl = subsonic filter. It doesn't matter how well the cartridge is matched to the tonearm or how well the table is isolated. You will benefit from a decent subsonic filter. | |
| Sumiko F4 with 103R sounds flat??? I used a 103R on an FT3 for a few years and it worked well. The Denon benefits from a body change (to wood) and a higher mass arm than your FT4 but if it's sounding crappy compared to your CD player, there is something definitely wrong.Could be im... | |
| Turnable Rack Vibration "Dan, for what it's worth (and I've been using Target wall shelves since 1990 ;--) one of the best (and easiest) mods one can make to the MDF shelf that comes with the unit is to make a "constrained layer" damped shelf out of it. Start with a seco... | |
| Turnable Rack Vibration Kenny: That's too bad. That would move me very quickly away from the wall mount as well! I have an older Target wall mount, the one which Nsgarch described with triangular bracing. It is solid as a rock. Too bad that Target has cheapened the product. | |
| Turnable Rack Vibration Kenny: When you say the Target Pro shelf "flexed under the load" are you saying that the rack itself flexed or the shelf material (MDF shelf). If it's the rack itself that's flexing, I'd say dump it. If it's just the shelf material you could exper... |