lewm
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| Sota Sapphire and Isolation? Never combine springs with springs. The SOTA is already spring suspended. | |
| Goldmund Studietto repairs In the title of this thread, it is revealed that the turntable in question is specifically a Goldmund Studietto, not a JVC or anything else. Steve Dobbins would know what to do and what not to do with the bearing. Same applies to the servo mecha... | |
| Example of a piece o’ crap, useless review Phoenix, On your comment about my comment that the record brush should not slow down the TT speed, I think when I wrote that I was interpreting the reviewer to mean that he uses a brush that rides the LP on its own "arm", as the LP plays. There ar... | |
| Goldmund Studietto repairs Steve Dobbins is at least geographically closer to you, is highly skilled, and is known for his work on turntables, not cartridges. You might also ask him. | |
| Turntable prices. Is my mind going? Post 1974 911s were awful and slow due to US emissions controls. Mid to late 80s SC models were ok but certainly not very fast. The 964 finally recapitulated the great late 60s/early 70s cars. | |
| Weirdest record defect? I think you mean many spindle holes are undersized. | |
| Inexpensive turntable to play old records Why not just play them on your main system? You are not going to damage the cartridge, if you have properly cleaned the LPs, even if they are scratchy due to excessive wear. | |
| Step Up Transformer with Moving Iron Cartridge? What Dave said. | |
| Example of a piece o’ crap, useless review "Transfer functions" of various cartridges, tonearms, etc? Please define. | |
| Step Up Transformer with Moving Iron Cartridge? The Hyperion Mk2 has an internal resistance of "10-11 ohms" to quote from Soundsmith directly. Thus if it was an MC cartridge, you might expect it could be loaded with 100 ohms or higher. The recommended 470 ohm load (or higher) not only suggest... | |
| Example of a piece o’ crap, useless review Soix, Did you write a letter to TAS complaining about the quality of this and other reviews they publish? That would be more effective than blowing off steam here, which is not going to have any effect on them. | |
| Example of a piece o’ crap, useless review It's a beginner looking turntable at an above beginner price, if you equip it like the review sample. Also, "I did notice that a record brush slows everything down considerably, which was a minor annoyance." That ought not to be happening with th... | |
| Turntable prices. Is my mind going? Since an order of magnitude is 10, I don't think there were any turntables in commercial existence for more than maybe one order of magnitude greater cost than the original ARXA (which would have been $670); was there a $6700 tt back then? Anyway... | |
| Schroder Tonearms - where do I purchase? are there authorized sellers in US? Best way to deal with the resonance of a counterweight is to decouple it from the pivot. | |
| FR64 to FR66 conversion Analogmagik If you live near enough to Bethesda, you are welcome to visit in person. |