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| Clavis Soundsmith retip I am happy to hear that your Clavis is playing well again, and that you are happy with it. Congratulations!Now, if you would have sent the Clavis back to us, it would have been completely rebuilt, and incorporated any of our newer advancements tha... | |
| New Lyra Delos Cartridge Jfrech, thanks for your comments and thanks for your continued support.Tokyo is now under 10 degrees centigrade maximum daytime temperature, and gets down to around freezing (or below) at night. I am using a tallish gooseneck incandescent lamp in ... | |
| New Lyra Delos Cartridge Dear Nrenter:>Does the diagram out on AudioNord accurately imply the your front magnet structure is larger (stonger) than in the typical MC cartridge, and therefore allows for less mass in your coils & iron core) for a similar output?A typi... | |
| New Lyra Delos Cartridge Dear Nrenter:>I would be curious to know about some of the ideas / technologies you discarded as you finalized the Delos design, as they did not provide the benefits you intended.I knew from previous experiences that high-strength body material... | |
| New Lyra Delos Cartridge Dear Nrenter:>You do not know what you do not know, until you know what you do not know, and only then can you make a guess if it really matters. :)As a designer-engineer, one needs to be able to come up with a steady stream of new thinking and... | |
| New Lyra Delos Cartridge Dear Nrenter:My observations have been that you can get pretty far in engineering circles by simply being able to "see the obvious" (smile). Actually, once you understand the underlying rationale and logic, the majority of engineering decisions sh... | |
| NOS cartridges Kristian, although I presume that the reply that you received is correct regarding the M20FL, I believe that it may be stretching the truth to extend that explanation to every cartridge.When it comes to cantilever metallurgy and corrosion resistan... | |
| New Lyra Delos Cartridge Dear Mauidj, Nolitan (content consolidation from another thread):>What is the expected price and will it be shipping in quantities?Due to currency fluctuations, differences in the cost of doing business in various countries etc., the price will... | |
| Lyra Argo i or Shelter 5000? Dear Mauidj, Nolitan:Since I don't want to discourage any Shelter owners from making additional contributions to the present thread, I think that it is best if further comments regarding the Delos are made on the separate Lyra Delos thread already... | |
| Lyra Argo i or Shelter 5000? Although there is little point in my commenting on competitor's products, as regards Lyras, rather than the Argo I suggest that you may want to consider the soon-to-be shipped Delos. It is likely that you will find it a more capable performer as w... | |
| New Lyra Delos Cartridge Hi: Few people have listened to the Delos so far, because we have only supplied a limited number of final preproduction cartridges to a handful of our distributors (although it has been displayed and played at several audio shows in Japan and Euro... | |
| Killing sibilance distortion - VPI & Jubilee Hi Doug:I agree with the overall theme of your post, but regarding the technical details of the "escape of energies at various frequencies from the generator as mechanical energy, rather than being converting into electrical signals", please allow... | |
| Transfiguration:sonic balance/Axia shares Phoenix Hi again Neil:>I do think the two-magnet design precedes the single-ring (not absolutely sure)In general it doesn't (as I mentioned about the Philip GP-922 of the late 1970s), and I believe that the AF (IIRC) which I occasionally used in the ea... | |
| Transfiguration:sonic balance/Axia shares Phoenix Neil: The first Transfigurations had the single ring-magnet configuration, which to me appears generally unchanged with the present Orpheus and Temper designs. I used a Transfiguration in the early 1990s, and it was of this type.Transfiguration ap... | |
| TEAC TN-400 Magnefloat Direct Drive Turntable As a bit of history, Magnefloat was originally not a TEAC brand, but an independent Japanese company which was perhaps the first to develop magnetic levitation for turntable bearing use (I believe that they did so in the 1960s). They produced turn... |