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| How are you playing your precious MONO Vinyl? This subject has been rehashed many times. Many of the mono cartridges on the market are nothing but stereo cartridges in which the two channels have been bridged internally. The mono switch on a linestage also achieves mono output into both chan... | |
| Hexagonal spanner for Fidelity Research FR 66S tonearm If you’re looking at the large round nut with flattened parallel facets, as shown in Elliot’s photo, I’d first try to turn it counterclockwise by hand, grabbing those facets. If that doesn’t work, then I’d use an adjustable wrench as I described a... | |
| Hexagonal spanner for Fidelity Research FR 66S tonearm Black knob is NOT removable from the B60. You may damage the B60 if you try hard enough. | |
| Technics SL-1300G Turntable issues A little better. A lot better. These are value judgements. The fact is that in developing the G series TTs, Technics upgraded every aspect, most especially including the platter and motor (changing from an iron core type in the old SL1200 series... | |
| Hexagonal spanner for Fidelity Research FR 66S tonearm So maybe my memory is faulty in that the huge nut with parallel flat surfaces is common to setup both with and without the B60. But if that is the case, why would your manual refer to a "hexagonal" nut? With the B60 nut, no hexagonal wrench is ap... | |
| Hexagonal spanner for Fidelity Research FR 66S tonearm Elliot, In your first photo, that huge nut with two flat sides is the unique nut for the B60 base. That's a costly option that facilitates VTA adjustment and also adds mass to the tonearm base. Without the B60 base, the nut is hexagonal and much ... | |
| Hexagonal spanner for Fidelity Research FR 66S tonearm So sorry. I just tried to gauge the size of the hexagonal nut that does fix my FR64S to the armboard, and I can barely see it without dismantling it, which I am loathe to do. The only thing I can say is that it IS hexagonal, as you say, But if you... | |
| Technics SL-1300G Turntable issues Cogging is a real thing, not something made up by audio engineers. It mainly is a problem with iron core motors. Read about it in wiki. Technics dealt with it in the past by increasing the number of poles and various other strategies. And yes, BD ... | |
| Hexagonal spanner for Fidelity Research FR 66S tonearm I have an FR64S but I don’t think the fixing nut is hexagonal. I’ll check later today. Meantime you could measure the nut with a caliper and just buy a suitable “spanner”. Because of space limitations under an armboard, I think a socket wrench wou... | |
| Vinyl Care RB evidently persists in his conviction that the friction between stylus and groove is a cause (certainly even he would not say it is the only cause) of static electric charge on the vinyl surface. This despite the fact that months ago when this q... | |
| About Koetsu Rosewood The seller has to tell you what he’s selling. That’s basic. | |
| About Koetsu Rosewood I notice that some have commented favorably on the Rosewood Signature and others on the Rosewood Signature Platinum (RSP), while Serge is contemplating purchase of the original Rosewood, unless he’s just failed to mention that it’s a Signature ver... | |
| Develop a hierarchy for phono playback "No matter how good any of the other front end components are, they will sound lousy if the cartridge is not quietly, solidly in the groove." And what component is in charge of keeping the cartridge in the groove? The tonearm, of course. "and las... | |
| DIN Phono Cable Yes, of course, I was merely trying to explain to Jose what Maxson was getting at. Of course there may be no need for a right angle DIN with Jose's TT, just as it isn't with yours. The point was that Jose' did not get the point. | |
| DIN Phono Cable "The cable will come straight down from the tonearm connection." But where does the cable have to go next? Presumably the TT sits on a shelf, so the cable will have to bend at a 90 degree angle in order not to foul the surface of the shelf on it... |