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| Does removing anti-skating really improve sound? mijostyn,There is a good reason for not setting anti-skating to work best for the loudest passage. According to a number of experts, including Peter Lederman of SoundSmith, skating force varies with groove modulation, with more force at higher mo... | |
| Direct 2 Disc A friend of mine has a quite large collection that includes a lot of very small label blues recordings. Often, it is something recorded in someone's house, not a studio, using only a few microphones. Some of these recordings are stunningly reali... | |
| Does removing anti-skating really improve sound? Yes, I would expect that lower friction would also mean lower skating force. In any event, if it sounds better to you to not use the antiskating mechanism, you then only have to decide whether or not you are concerned with uneven groove and stylu... | |
| Does removing anti-skating really improve sound? At best, any compensation is just a rough average of the force that is required to compensate for skating forces, the actual skating force varies greatly due to different operating conditions. In particular, there is more skating force when the s... | |
| Advice and help understanding, choosing a Widebander / Single Full Range Driver speaker? I also find high frequencies to be tricky with full range drivers. It is not just the case that the top end is limited, so one does not get that bit of sparkle on top and the sense of natural note decay, that lack of top end makes the upper midra... | |
| Direct 2 Disc I agree, "For Duke" is on my short list for demo discs, along with "Fatha" another fantastic M&K D2D recording. If I put together my short-list of demo records, it would contain:TBM-Yamamoto Trio-Midnight Sugar (1st pressing)???-Clark Terry-A... | |
| Direct 2 Disc Sheffield did some good D2D recordings. I like a couple of their Harry James records--"Still Harry After All These Years" and "King James Version"; alsoAmanda McBroom-"West of Oz" and "Growing Up in Hollywood Town";M&K Realtime Records did so... | |
| anybody buying into magnetic levitation "eliminates the effects of any vibration" ? Geoffkait,I don't see the point in quibbling with every comment, particularly when they are meant to just to illustrate a general point, which I think we all agree--nothing is perfect, so it did not make sense for the OP to harp on the manufacture... | |
| Does removing anti-skating really improve sound? The Ledermann (of SoudSmith) video's mentioned above have a pretty good discussion of skating and how to do the adjustment. The bottom line is that ANY method employed, and ANY mechanism will, at best, provide only roughly correct compensation, a... | |
| Full range speakes for VAC 30/30 Renaissance MK III with CAT SL1 Sig Mk III preamp w NOS. In most typical listening situations, I would think that the VAC would work reasonably well with the Harbeth 30.1s. I hear 30.2s a lot with small tube amps and the combination sounds pretty good. For less money, I recommend the ProAc D2 (stand m... | |
| anybody buying into magnetic levitation "eliminates the effects of any vibration" ? Of course it doesn't provide complete isolation, the question is whether it does a reasonably good job of isolating whatever is on top from vibration originating from whatever the platform is sitting on at its price point. It is not going to do t... | |
| Koetsu Rosewood - Best/safest way to clean stylus I've used two liquid cleaners--LAST and Lyra--for many years and have never experienced any problems. They are solvent based, so it does make sense to follow Lyra's instruction of not playing a record immediately (Lyra says wait 10 seconds) in or... | |
| Cartridge issues need suggestions That is a bit of a scary option. If there is an open circuit because of a bad solder connection of the wires from the coil to the pin, that might cure the problem. But, if you apply heat too long (something pretty hard to judge) you might cause ... | |
| Ugh....dropped the stylus on the platter Dropping the arm should not have damaged the cartridge. The sideways swipe might be more of an issue, but, if it sounds okay, you are probably fine. Under normal circumstances I don't see how this should ever happen. My operation is simple, I a... | |
| Phonostage preamp HELP When you say you want more juice, does that mean that, with the volume turned all the way up, you don't have enough volume? The .4mv output and 60 db of gain from the Manley should work, even if that means cranking the volume knob up more than wi... |