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| Moerch DP-8 tonearm? Plus the weight of the cartridge and mounting hardware. | |
| Moerch DP-8 tonearm? Portoalegro, apart from the good points made by Dover, I can only guess that even the 14g effective mass of the wand is not quite sufficient for those cartridges, though if your ZYX is anything like my Universe in terms of compliance, it’s not in ... | |
| Vintage Tube Gear Priced Insane Now The KenRad 6SN7/VT231 is my favorite 6SN7, except where they tend to be very microphonic, which sometimes renders them unusable. The “sound” of any tube is also dependent on circuit design. The value of a vintage tube transformer coupled amplifier... | |
| Why hasnt a turntable manufacturer produced a table with automatic tonearm return/shutoff? “The convenience is substantial” only if your listening session is limited to one side of one LP. Otherwise you’re going to get up anyway either to play the second side or a different LP. The stylus riding in the runout grooves is not harmed if yo... | |
| Why hasnt a turntable manufacturer produced a table with automatic tonearm return/shutoff? I’m sure such a device exists. The problem is you don’t read about them because they’re not of much interest to audiophiles. | |
| Denon dp-80 (and other vintage direct drives) vs modern turntables Borrow a “modern” DD TT and do the same measurements with it. iPhone is not a reliable device for super accurate measure of TT speed and centering it on a cup is added guesswork. Unless you’re contemplating spending at least $5K or more on a new T... | |
| Denon dp-80 (and other vintage direct drives) vs modern turntables Rockness, how are you measuring speed? Had the platter been spinning for a while before measurements were made, to allow for warm-up? Anyway, the max and min speeds are not bad, except that the variance occurs over only 10 seconds. I think you’ll ... | |
| Denon dp-80 (and other vintage direct drives) vs modern turntables In the owners manual for the DP80, Denon suggested that the bearing “never” would require a regular service, although it’s unlikely they envisioned a 45-50 year lifespan. Although I’ve upgraded the capacitors, transistors, the single IC, and the p... | |
| Denon dp-80 (and other vintage direct drives) vs modern turntables It is not wise to replace the ball bearing without also taking into account the material used as thrust pad, because some materials are not compatible in terms of wear factor. | |
| Denon dp-80 (and other vintage direct drives) vs modern turntables DP80 is a great turntable if working properly. However at this late date, any sample that has never been serviced, ought to be. Your description that the tape is “stretched” sounds ominous but if it holds speed I’d leave it alone; I have not heard... | |
| Moerch DP-8 tonearm? Portoalegre, what cartridges? | |
| Moerch DP-8 tonearm? Where did you add 7g of weight? I hope that if you added it at the headshell end you then re-set the counterweight for proper VTF. If effective mass of the arm is too low for the compliance of the cartridge then in theory the resonant frequency ca... | |
| Vintage Tube Gear Priced Insane Now And your question is? Amplifiers seldom if ever contain phono stages, and one should not expect the valuation of an amplifier to be based on watts per dollar. | |
| Converting Vinyl to Digital You might check out posts by John Ellison over on vinyl asylum. He uses a Tascam ADC, which is not terribly expensive, to convert his vinyl to digital and claims there is no audible difference in SQ between the original vinyl and the digital copy. | |
| Why Are Used Technics 1200/1210 MK2 Still So Expensive Compared to GR/GR2? Bill, assuming you took the trouble to use the same cartridge and identical downstream components in your comparison of the two turntables, and assuming your judgement of the results is valid, haven’t you actually proven that the GAE is superior t... |