johnnantais
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| Cartridge & phono preamp for Denon DP-60L Oops, I mean this leaves you with $500, if you want to spend that much. I believe the spercharged Gram Amp 2 sells fr something like $350. So change left over if you go Shure. The Shure is one of my personal favorites: extreme tonal neutrality, gr... | |
| Cartridge & phono preamp for Denon DP-60L It's hard to say what will work well specifically on your Denon, but one suggestion is a Shure V15VxMR, connected to whatever Gram phono preamp you can buy with the rest. Since this leavs you with $300 - the Shure is $200 at Jack's Music Factory, ... | |
| What are good turntable acoustic damping materials Faradayblue, I know of only two Mission tonearms: one was slim and was the 774, the other was massive - much more "chunky" than a Rega for instance - and was called the Mechanic. The slim one was considered good, and with MMs such as the Grados fo... | |
| Best MC for a Linn/Syrinx Hi Simon,Your plan for the top-plate sounds good, actually, as MDF is actually heavier than birch-ply, and the Corian being heavy will help the match. Corian is also an excellent material acoustics-wise, especially when bonded to something else. I... | |
| What are good turntable acoustic damping materials Faradayblue, tread very carefully in "improving" the TD160 Super, as it incorporated many of the tweaks - damping materials and so forth - that were being used at the time. Over-damping will kill the dynamics of the 'table, lead sheet being especi... | |
| would you bother? One thing for sure, music still raises the passions, which is precisely as it should be. In the interest of rhymes, go LP! | |
| would you bother? ARs have the best isolation on the business. Sorry, Linn owners, Linn having one of the worst. Otherwise, wall mounts do work - even in drywall - for a lot less than a thousand bucks. Then there's your friendly neighborhood stud-finder. Let's face... | |
| would you bother? I re-iterate my earlier point: that spending loads of dosh is not necessary to building an extremely musical amd informative vinyl rig. The trick is in choosing musical items over analytical items, in which of course, the more money you spend the ... | |
| would you bother? Go for it 4yanx! Hopefully, there will be a real shoot-out. I put my money on the big disc. | |
| would you bother? What's all this "be prepared to spend a ton of money" crap?!! There is a lot of choice for excellent reproduction at good prices, with 'table, tonearm, cartridge and preamp for a total of under a grand, considering the huge amount of quality used ... | |
| Best MC for a Linn/Syrinx Simon, I often use my Grado Platinum on a low-mass tonearm as well, on the Ariston RD80 (very similar to the Linn) on the Black Widow, and on my Lenco/Decca International. MMs in general really open up on low-mass tonearms, but since they are almo... | |
| DIY tonearm, the US Patent Office has many tonearm Very interesting, Nghiep, how do you make the pivot point for the tonearm? I have read elsewhere that the best material for a DIY tonearm is a carbon-fibre tube for an arrow at $5! I've been toying with either imitating the Well-Tempered design or... | |
| Best MC for a Linn/Syrinx Of course, the best motor out there is the one on the Lenco...But since the Roksan motor's peculiar mounting (free to roam to eliminate belt-wow via its spring), will you be able to spring-load a different motor as well? This is a large part of th... | |
| Best MC for a Linn/Syrinx Oops, Simon, I was cruising around and tripped over the information that the Syrinx, despite its imposing looks, is a low-mass design. Perhaps you don't have the following info at http://www.n.mackie.btinternet.co.uk/documents/superarms.txt, to le... | |
| Best MC for a Linn/Syrinx Thanks for the update, Simon! Sorry to hear about your problems re. the Roksan, one of the few truly musical high-end 'tables out there! I have a suggestion for the new top-plate: machine a new one from Finnish Birch-ply, in my opinion and the opi... |