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| What is the best way to clean Vinyl? bdp24, FYI, vinyl = PVC. If you believe the internet, "Vinyl is not a natural substance but is a synthetic man-made material. It is a type of plastic that is made from ethylene (found in crude oil) and chlorine (found in regular salt). When proce... | |
| So Weird- No Stylus Contact Woofer Pumping with Hana ML and Elac PPA-2 fsonic, Mea culpa. A thousand apologies. It was Holmz who wrote the sentence I quoted (and responded to), not you. | |
| So Weird- No Stylus Contact Woofer Pumping with Hana ML and Elac PPA-2 fsonic, I don’t know what I said to make you so angry, but you DID write, ..."or degauss the current mat, or put a blocking capacitor somewhere." And this is what led me to believe that you were supposing that a capacitor can block a magnetic fiel... | |
| So Weird- No Stylus Contact Woofer Pumping with Hana ML and Elac PPA-2 A capacitor does not “block” a magnetic field. but that’s not so much of a problem, because there cannot be a magnetic field generated from the Funk Firm Acromat, because it is completely non-metallic, let alone non-ferrous. (See the FF website.) ... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm Maxson, First, thanks for your response. To your direct observation, does azimuth remain stable over the course of traversing an LP during play? The top surface of the headshell on a Well Tempered Reference tonearm, for example, visibly rolls over... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm All I know is that the RS LABS RSA1 tonearm violates every “commandment” of modern design: underhung not firmly anchored to plinth cartridge DEcoupled from arm wand unipivot pivot is elevated above both cartridge and counterweight CW dangles... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm What Dave just said about TAE, and what I was trying to say early on in this thread. | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm Your motivations in general are worthy, but your judgement of what is a scam and what is merely an alternative approach that has merits and demerits is poor in this instance, because your mind is closed. And by the way, your argumens against under... | |
| So Weird- No Stylus Contact Woofer Pumping with Hana ML and Elac PPA-2 Good find, Dekay. For a true balanced hook-up from cartridge to a true balanced phono stage, audio ground is typically floated (no ground, in other words). Pin2 of the XLR connector is typically connected to the positive phase ("hot" on an RCA c... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm If the Viv bearing is “floating“ as you say, I would not like it either. I mentioned this very early on in this thread. Their literature is unclear. Can one of the owners and users of the Viv tonearm comment about whether the pivot point is fixed ... | |
| So Weird- No Stylus Contact Woofer Pumping with Hana ML and Elac PPA-2 He’d have to reinstall the XLRs and switch to balanced mode on his preamp in order to revisit the problem, and he prefers not to do that. So further conjecture is futile. | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm Mijostyn, You wrote, "You have to be kidding me Lew. After all I have said about measurement microphones, digital signal processing, and crazy microscopes? I measure everything that affects the performance of my system. If you don’t you are out to... | |
| So Weird- No Stylus Contact Woofer Pumping with Hana ML and Elac PPA-2 The platter is solid aluminum. Even if it had a layer of another metal hidden below, it would be a solid circumferential piece. It makes no sense to invent possibilities that are very remote and then feel satisfied that you know what is going on.... | |
| So Weird- No Stylus Contact Woofer Pumping with Hana ML and Elac PPA-2 Could be something is oscillating in balanced mode but why would it go away when you removed LP and mat? Neither of which can “store energy” for more than milliseconds. And it would be kinetic energy, not electrical. | |
| So Weird- No Stylus Contact Woofer Pumping with Hana ML and Elac PPA-2 I think it’s a red herring, meaning something else is or was going on that neither we nor the OP have detected. Which is why I asked the OP to see if he can recreate the phenomenon by restoring the original conditions. It cannot be the platter per... |