johnnantais
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| What does "Dark Background " mean TT terminology It's more than just quietness between tracks. Many components always produce a certain amount of background noise, like preamps and amplifiers as well. There is something called a noise-floor, the point of audibility for this type of noise. Record... | |
| 12" Tonearm What Have You Heard & Recommend? Hi Raul, let's put that quote in context: "Any downside, any mistracking, any noise? No, except for the initial grooves on one side of one ECM Ralph Towner disc. The Decca just skitters over these grooves, no matter what I try -- adjusting VTA, VT... | |
| 12" Tonearm What Have You Heard & Recommend? Yikes!! It must have been a 12.5i I set up then, sorry for the confusion sirspeedy. Still, damping is sooo effective when setting up unipivots, can't imagine having one without it.Hi Jon, everyone on this forum knows I favour the old transcription... | |
| 12" Tonearm What Have You Heard & Recommend? Easy: put the damping fluid in the housing, it makes a world of difference, the bass simply not there without it. Also makes it behave physically. | |
| TIME to break in a Denon 103R Psychicanimal, the vintage Audio Technicas sound nothing like the new family sound of overdamped bass and leaning-towards-the-bright current crop (which has advantages in too-warm or flabby systems however): they are rich, smoooooth and very very ... | |
| TIME to break in a Denon 103R I have no experience with the "R" version of the venerable Denon, but the plain 103 takes about 50 hours to fully burn-in, though reported hours vary from 20 hours to 100 hours, probably a synergy thing going on here. And I agree with Patrickamory... | |
| 12" Tonearm What Have You Heard & Recommend? Deccas prefer fluid-damped unipivots, fluid damping practically a necessity, so add the VPI JMW 12.5 to the list. On a heavy Lenco idler-wheel 'table, the combination of JMW 10.5 with the Decca is simply the most awesome sound I have ever heard: s... | |
| Lenco G68 any info would help? Are you sure it's a G68 and not a GL78? If it's a GL78 or L78, then it's a good'un. Check for the heavy very low-profile platter, and of course an idler-wheel. | |
| Is Direct Drive Really Better? Hi Raul, from a quick Google: "scully lathes where made by larry scully. most of them where made in the 40ies and there are still lot of them working. nicely made. optical much more exciting than a neumann the quality was never comparable. althoug... | |
| Is Direct Drive Really Better? I see this thread keeps on going! Actually Taviran, I didn't write that the Lencos were "as" accurate as SP10s, I wrote they were "more" accurate! Heard it in more than one system too. The Lencos are unresponsive to power-line tricks too, in my ex... | |
| Audio-Technica OC9 Cartridge, Your Impressions. The OC9 is definitely not a step up from the Denon, at best it is a step sideways, being more focused on the high frequencies. In fact, I'm not certain it is possible to step up from the Denon, as it excels in PRaT, and musical excitement which no... | |
| Is Direct Drive Really Better? I see here a lot of simple prejudice: belt-drivers argue what things "should" sound like and why certain aspects "should not" make any difference, in the absence of having seriously tested and heard the alternatives, if at all. These defend their ... | |
| Is Direct Drive Really Better? Hmmm....lots of misunderstandings here. First, to 4yanx and high-end designers. I don't mean high-end turntable designers, but designers of other equipment for which they want the best source they can find in order to demonstrate their wares to be... | |
| Is Direct Drive Really Better? Idler-wheel drives anyway (and big DDs to a lesser extent) clearly demonstrate, in comparisons, that mass/inertia alone does not overcome stylus force drag in belt-drives. Big DDs such as the SP10 MKII and big idler-wheel drives, such as the Garra... | |
| Good or Bad idea?? ?? Just as a positive counter-balance to the above, these old Koetsus and Kisekis, like the current Allaerts cartridges, are said to have a stylus life in excess of 10,000 hours. My own Kiseki Purpleheart Sapphire is still an incredible-sounding cart... |