johnnantais
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| Linn Ittok vs. Rega RB-300 Excellent analysis, Mark! This from a professional information analyst! | |
| Decca cartridge experiences Tbg, Garrard 501! I'm a total idler-wheel convert (well, almost total, as the classic 3-point suspension does give excellent Prat): please send me your impressions re. build and sound quality, as well as price! I have just mounted my Decca Interna... | |
| Decca cartridge experiences I bought them at a Money Exchange for tourists. The major banks sell them as well. | |
| Decca cartridge experiences Tbg, yep, that's the European Community, at least in meaning (Communauté Européene?). And yes, that's the message I received. And they duly arrived. | |
| Decca cartridge experiences You're welcome, Joe. Out of curiosity, how many did you order? I've been working on mine all night tonight, and while incredibly cheesy, it's also brilliant! I mean the tonearm and unipivot floats on a magnetic cushion ferchrissakes! There's a bub... | |
| Decca cartridge experiences Thanks for all the suggestions guys. In fact, I did try the Decca on an idler-wheel drive, though not a Garrard, (instead a Lenco L75, an overlooked engineering marvel which just needs the Garrard treatment of heavier plinth & etc. to boogie) ... | |
| Decca cartridge experiences I think my Decca needs an overhaul, having that difficult VdH stylus profile which may now be worn. The Decca International, a damped unipivot, is in the same ball park as my Maywayre damped unipivot for extracting performance from the Decca. Stra... | |
| Efficient Bookshelfs on a budget? And I'll chime in with the Athena Technologies, with sensitivity ratings of 91 db to 94 db, depending on size. I used to run them from the 8-watt Wave 8s, and they just screamed. Quite revealing though, so I can't vouch for the ultimate effect wit... | |
| What tonearms $1500 work well with the Linn? Johnny, I own several 3-point suspension 'tables, and I love the bouncy rhythm and liveliness of them. I also have solid plinth designs and love the power and dynamics and information of them. So I encourage anyone who likes any type of design to ... | |
| What tonearms $1500 work well with the Linn? Johnny, before you get your shorts in an uproar remember that the Graham tonearm, considered by many the finest in the world, is a unipivot tonearm. Do you think there's issues here with MMs or MCs? The VPI tonearms are also unipivot, same thing a... | |
| Decca cartridge experiences Tbg, I went to this particular Tjoeb website, http://www.hifi-notes.com/ah1-en.htm, where I posted my request for info. A man called Herman contacted me, we worked out our order (mine was for two arms for me and one for a friend), which came to a ... | |
| Decca cartridge experiences I've just received the Decca International tonearms, at a total cost of roughly $40 each including shipping and taxes. They look like beauts: watch this space all those of you who have a sense of adventure, nothing touches a Decca for excitement! ... | |
| "Trickle up" theory Of course synergy is crucial, good point Weiserb. As I pointed out in another thread, amount of information seems to be inversely proportional to the amount of music which survives. Our main aim should be musicality before information, but the upg... | |
| Roksan Radius 5 with Nemis arm, good cartridge ? Nobody else is chiming in, so I'll give it a go. My guess is that the Nemis tonearm is a medium-mass tonearm as so many others out there. It is a unipivot, so the bearing is necessarily superb. So sky's the limit according to your choice and taste... | |
| "Trickle up" theory I see now that I didn't explain myself clearly enough through this thread, and got carried away myself, though there were interesting and informative results! Some say I am condemning the high-end in its entirety, some associate the statements wit... |