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| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm Raul, You and others have successfully equated TAE with "distortion" in the minds of most, without ever having defined what sort of distortion might result from TAE and its audibility, apart from phase distortion, which I think is trivial compared... | |
| Vinyl record storage in Harvey's office, Suits TV show Could be IKEA, nothing special that I can see. | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm Barney, are you saying that the contents of this thread bear evidence that convinces you the Viv tonearm and other underhung tonearms are “worse than the disease” of antiskate? Or what? FYI, underhung tonearms do generate a skating force except a... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm Or that music information would eventually be encoded in vertical as well as purely horizontal motion of the stylus, as was the case in the 30s and 40s. | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm Raul, When I wrote that the stylus should always ride down the middle of the groove, it was perhaps a poor choice of words for what I wanted to convey, which I then tried to capture better in my follow on statement. Of course, in reality the groo... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm Who would argue with that description of the perfect tonearm? Not I. I would add one more property to a list of the desired qualities of a perfect tonearm: Such a tonearm should elicit no eccentric side forces on the groove walls, as the stylus m... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm Raul, I over-reacted to your earlier remark. We’re all here to learn. And as I’ve said, I am in no position to make a final judgement except to say the Viv has no glaring audible issues compared to the conventional pivoted tonearms I own. | |
| Primaluna signal tube replacement If the filament supply can handle extra current, and if the filament voltage is 12V (not 6V), then a great upgrade from the 12AU7 and its congeners is the 12FQ7. Even as a cathode follower, the 12FQ7 can be heard to be an improvement on the 12AU7. | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm Sure. Whatever you say. That must be why I also like the 3160. | |
| Einstein The Perfect Match phono pre and My Sonic Labs cartridge I think it is a dangerous game for amateurs like us (me included) to toss around these terms. First of all, "gain" is a term associated with an increase in the voltage component of an audio signal. The decibel (db) is defined by a certain amount o... | |
| 16 Channel Mixer… Questions and Concerns about dig mixer in chain Can't you just bypass the mixer when you want to listen to your audiophile system? Does the ARC preamp have an external tape loop? You might run the mixer through that. | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm Yes, maybe. I still have more work to do that requires just listening. My opinion is that the special sound quality of this tonearm has more to do with the underhung geometry than with low friction. | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm Correct. If you use the headshell supplied with the tonearm, it would not be possible to twist the cartridge with respect to the long axis of the headshell, unless you somehow modify the headshell. However, the tonearm accepts all standard heads... | |
| 16 Channel Mixer… Questions and Concerns about dig mixer in chain Unless your ARC preamp is malfunctioning due to aging tubes or a parts failure, there’s no doubt in my mind that your mixer is negatively affecting the sound quality of your purely audio system. | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm Overhang geometry requires a headshell offset angle, else you get very extreme TAE and no null point anywhere. |