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| Turntable Mats for Technics Grand Class, "G" Series Three of my 5 turntables sport a Boston Audio Mat, either the 2mm or the 3mm version. I use the SAEC SS300, on my Victor TT101. I realize there are some theoretical reasons not to use a solid metal mat, but I have been happy with the SAEC, nevert... | |
| ATN160ml Beryllium MicroLine Stylus on AT150e body I am not sure what you are responding to. Is it my weak joke about "happy tracking"? Sometimes I just cannot resist a good straight line. Pun intended. | |
| Turntable Mats for Technics Grand Class, "G" Series I like Boston Audio graphite mat on my SP10 mk3. BA don’t make it any more but someone else does. Sakura???? | |
| How to dismantle Well Tempered for shipping? My dear now departed friend might have replenished the damping fluid in his WT Reference arm with something having a higher viscosity rating than the original, which certainly could account for its overdamped sonics. He wasn't sure what he put in ... | |
| How to dismantle Well Tempered for shipping? I used to hear the WT Reference tonearm in my friend’s WT Reference TT, many times. Eventually, when he was finally suffering from dementia, I had to help him install a new cartridge, which caused me to have to fuss with that screw under the base ... | |
| How to dismantle Well Tempered for shipping? The hole is of course directly under the tonearm pivot. Nice right rear of plinth | |
| ATN160ml Beryllium MicroLine Stylus on AT150e body How do you know when a cartridge is "happily tracking"? | |
| Pass XP-17 and Hana ML loading question SSG, when you say you hear hiss at “above 70db”, are you talking Soind Pressure Level (SPL) or voltage? If SPL, bow are you measuring that? 70 db SPL at the listener position is not very loud. Anyway, hiss when you crank the volume control on a so... | |
| Linn Bedrok LP12 Plinth Upgrade Elliot, The spring suspension isolates the chassis, motor, platter, bearing, etc, from the plinth, at least that is my understanding without having owned an LP12. So I would think of the plinth as being outside the suspension system. One would ha... | |
| Linn LP12 turntable As a Jewish person who often plays the game "Jew, not a Jew" with one of my close friends, I can say that I had no idea at all that Ivor might be Jewish, if that is what you are implying, Davey. I never thought about it one way or the other. Yet... | |
| Linn LP12 turntable Davey, What sort of racism is that? Anti-Tiefenbrun-ism? I would have thought he was British or Scottish, but the name suggests possibly German originally. Perhaps you would like to correct that sentence or else explain it better. | |
| 3k budget for Turntable and Phono Noob- do I need external power supplies? Haha. Yes. My more egregious omission was to mention that there’s no appreciable benefit unless your phono stage and downstream equipment are also true balanced devices. | |
| Warm sounding phono cartridge I have about 3000 LPs, but I don’t really know exactly. For you to be able to quote a number like 31300, which suggests you actually count them is impressive. The vast majority of my LPs have no or very tolerable surface noise. If not, and if clea... | |
| Fidelity Research FR-64 vs. FR-54 fonoman, You are 8 years late to the party. Raul is mellowed since then. I now own a 3160 Essential Phonolinepramp, and in my opinion it is the best sounding solid state preamplifier (phono plus linestage) that I have heard. For me it renders the... | |
| Linn Bedrok LP12 Plinth Upgrade It’s Lew M, not Lew N. I live in the US, not in the UK. The price on the Linn website is $32,800. The price of the SP1000R at Music Direct is $19,999, or something like that. The list price of both TTs does include a tonearm. So, for a US resident... |