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| AT-95ML on a Pro-Ject Debut Carbon I strongly doubt your data for effective mass of the arm. There have only been a few tonearms in audio history, dating back to the hayday of high compliance cartridges, with such a low effective mass. But I’m guessing you got the number from some ... | |
| AT-95ML on a Pro-Ject Debut Carbon The AT 95ML is a high compliance cartridge (about 40cu at 10 Hz), so I don’t know why you want to add 6g to the effective mass. With such a compliance you could use a tonearm with 6g effective mass, total, which doesn’t really exist. In any case, ... | |
| Old records. Wow! I remember finding orchestral RBCDs from the 80s (which would include Ormandy recordings derived from earlier performances) to be just awful. So bad I couldn’t bear them even at a friend’s house during a party. Massed strings, to which ormand... | |
| Vinyl record storage in Harvey's office, Suits TV show By 2259, if we haven't already destroyed ourselves or the planet, it probably will be possible to plug one's brain directly into a music feed. Audio systems will be obsolete. On the other hand, because audio systems will be obsolete, there will ... | |
| Old records. hsounds, Can you explain further? The change in VTF due to adding or subtracting VTA is real but very minimal for the amount of change in VTA that you describe. Also, a modern tonearm that places the center of gravity of the counterweight in the... | |
| Old records. I beg to differ. At least with respect to jazz and classical music genres, “old” LPs that were well cared for can compete with and often surpass modern reissues by a wide margin. Unlike CDs, LPs really can last forever if properly stored and playe... | |
| Old records. I am trying to piece your story together. First, you say you "recently bought" a TT. You then say you compared it to your digital system "for quite a while". So right there is a bit confusing; if you compared your vinyl to your digital for quit... | |
| Thoughts About Turntable Upgrades I guess I was misunderstood. What I meant is that if you think that Red Book CDs or even most SACDs that are re-issues of conventional digital recordings can be equal to or superior to (high quality, low noise) vinyl copies of the same music, I do... | |
| surface noise reduction Very old LPs that you’ve likely purchased second or third hand were almost certainly played many times with cartridges using spherical or elliptical or worn out styli of either type. When you then play those LPs with a modern cartridge using an ex... | |
| Teres turntable motor problems Custom pulley should not be terribly costly. Why not ask them for a source? If they can’t do it, they may know someone who can. Or, assuming the existing pulley needs to be greater in diameter, maybe its diameter can be increased by wrapping it. A... | |
| Thoughts About Turntable Upgrades But these days, the very limited quality of RBCD is hardly a criterion for judging the potential of digital when hi Res streaming is readily available to most audiophiles. | |
| Grace Level ll Good to know at least that Chakster is alive and not captive in some gulag for his political views. | |
| surface noise reduction +1 In addition, the OP might read again the earlier post by Atma on the importance of loading and phono stage design. The net message was not that you need a new cartridge. | |
| SL1200G - Tonearm shape from side question for owners In the above, I refer to the front-to-rear axis, the same plane as the azimuth adjustment. | |
| Grace Level ll As you may glean from reading the earliest parts of this thread, I argued with Chakster that once you put a good OCL or other line contact stylus on a Ruby (meaning an F9 with a sapphire cantilever, which = Ruby), it begins to resemble the very ra... |