johnnantais
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| Damping fluid/grease for Mayware Unipivot? I reiterate: turntablebasics silicone fluid is quite cheap, real-world price. I have tons of experience with Maywares and other unipivots: olive oil is only good if your 'table has utterly no dynamics, where damping is not required. The more dynam... | |
| Damping fluid/grease for Mayware Unipivot? Just click onto turntablebasics for their silicone fluid, quite cheap. You fill the cup by ear: too much fluid will kill the sound, not enough and you lose control. Easy as pie. I've also used very thick hydraulic oil with success, though your liv... | |
| Decca cartridge experiences Hi Adrian, I answered on the other thread, but here goes anyway: the Lenco is very a stable and neutral performer once rebuilt an dre-plinthed, and a good arm-cartridge match elsewhere should be even better on the Lenco, due to its easily-heard sp... | |
| Decca cartridge experiences "London" still offers a re-build/restore service, and apparently their new stylus profiles are more user-friendly. One of these days, I'm going to send in my bitchin' Super Gold for one of these new tips, as that van den Hul stylus is a tracking n... | |
| Lenco plinth? How big is too big? Sounds great to me: too big means only more than you can actually carry, so bear this in mind, as you don't want to have to resort to a hoist every time you want to dust! I just finished a plinth which measures 22" x 23" x 6", so your plinth is ac... | |
| Vinatge Analog Audio Cheapskate Survey ... Of course, I must insert the Mighty Lenco in here ;-)Apart from that, Ariston RD11s are severely undervalued too, and so many others... | |
| Music Boy/Petra interconnects - where from? Ya, I DO gotta admit that, so my advice: Be Intrepid all! | |
| Music Boy/Petra interconnects - where from? Hmmm....I had given more details on the Home Despot thread, here's a more direct link to the "correct" Petra cables: http://www.kalyx.com/store/proddetail.cfm/ItemID/44292.0/CategoryID/16500.0/SubCatID/3750.0/file.htm. Are you sure about this very... | |
| Music Boy/Petra interconnects - where from? Here you go: http://www.kalyx.com/catalog/shipping.htm | |
| Romance just keeps geting worse I have to agree with Oz, I wouldn't want you to get disgusted with analogue because someone knowingly sold you a lemon. Good luck with it anyway, there are very many other good tables which work out there. | |
| Idler wheel drive vs Belt I'm drowing in contracts right now, but in the meantime I'll post this brief explanation of why I think idler-wheel drive is the superior system, given equivalent amounts of effort: "We know things now they didn't know when they were manufacturing... | |
| Idler wheel drive vs Belt Well-said all! The real reason, following up on C123666, idler-wheel was dropped was because belt-drive simply made more economic sense even back then: larger profits. Anyone who has handled even the cheaper Garrard SP25s has to stand in awe of al... | |
| Idler wheel drive vs Belt Hi Raul, you're right, seeing this thrread is like a starving man stumbling out of the desert and discovering a buffet! As to the system capablities/resolution of each of those testers, a better source should sound better regardless of the system,... | |
| Idler wheel drive vs Belt In a word, the sound is "magical", and because, in two words: "speed stability". I will here plagiarize my own text under my "system": "The idler-wheel-drive Garrard 301 grease-bearing was the 'table used by Sugano in the design of his Koetsus, an... | |
| Any feedback on the Graham Phantom Hello Bob Graham: I hope you will be making your cartridge spacer available independently of your tonearms to vinylphiles everywhere! I know myself and several others are always seeking a source for these, especially Rega/variant users. Why not?Hi... |