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| Technics SP-10 MKIIA tonearms IME tonearms were what Technics did best. In terms of quality, I consider the EPA-100MkII to be at the top of the Japanese-made tonearms (or at least very close to it). Even today, the MkII is more than competitive with most tonearms.cheers, jonat... | |
| Alignment tool for SME V + Shelter Nandric: In recent years I have tried to stay with 9.52mm (not 9.25) for the distance between a cartridge's stylus and mounting holes, first because maintaining a specific distance makes it easier to swap cartridges, second because I am unaware of... | |
| TriPlanar Tips Lew: As previously stated here, I encountered the same issue as you, and machined a shim myself as a workaround.http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?eanlg&1246760461&openflup&8&4#8 | |
| Micro SX-8000 II or SZ-1 With this kind of air-bearing turntable, you may care to experiment by using the motor to drive the flywheel, and driving the turntable platter with the flywheel. In this arrangement the flywheel will function as a filter for motor irregularities,... | |
| the perfect tonearm Hi Mikeyc8: Ikeda's tonearms, like the FR's and IT's mostly veer in the direction of high mass, and should work far better with low-compliance cartridges than high-compliance. I'd say that the IT-245 is at least comparable the 64fx, and probably s... | |
| the perfect tonearm Hi Lew:>What model of Triplanar have you used that has such a headshell?For sure mine is not the latest version. My memory is that I started using it around 2000~2001, and had it paired with the Allearts around 2002.>I have owned mine for mo... | |
| the perfect tonearm To Mikeyc8, you may have problems finding what you are looking for such a price in a new arm.I concur with Dertonarm's recommendation for the Graham 2.2, which is easy to setup and sounds decent. The Triplanars also sound decent, and if you can fi... | |
| Fidelity Research cartridges Hi Marco (Heradot): I didn't see your post for the longest time, apologies for the tardy response!First, I removed anything on the arm structure that wasn't absolutely essential for playback. That means in particular the armlift, also the armrest.... | |
| Why is the Shelter 501 mono so expensive? Stanwal, no, what happens is that the cartridge builder is usually overworked with normal orders, and there won't be sufficient open time to insert orders that don't have clear customers for.Also a dozen cartridges isn't enough for efficient produ... | |
| Why is the Shelter 501 mono so expensive? With hand-built cartridges that are built by one person (as is the case with us, and I assume Shelter), the builder works most efficiently when he is building a single type of cartridge, in continuous production-line fashion.Having different model... | |
| MONO cartridges David: I don't think that the Dorian should be much worse than the Helikon when it comes to noise or sound quality. After all, although the Dorian doesn't use the custom stylus profile of the Helikon, it still uses a Microridge, which is one of th... | |
| Fidelity Research cartridges Hi Dertonarm: Yes, I am aware of that the FR-7 was referred to as "FR-1 MK7" prior to launch. But I am also aware that the marketing department (in many companies) can twist and turn things in a way that may be at odds with the intentions of the d... | |
| Difference between Lyra Argo and Argo i Mark: The differences between Argo and Argo i relate to the suspension system, and the "i" will track and sound somewhat better than the non "i".The specific differences between "i" and non "i" are in suspension metallurgy and damper composition. ... | |
| Phantom custom mount on SME slot? Note that some Phantoms have longer armtubes, which have been made primarily for use with turntables that have oversize platters. I think that these are 10 or 10.5 inches.hth, jonathan carr | |
| Fidelity Research cartridges T_Bone, I would easily be willing to pay up to the low 30's for a PMC3. At 40 I'd probably think about it, and buy it after all (grin).The very low coil inductance of the FR-7 implies that loading can be fairly flexible, so I wouldn't be so concer... |