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| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm Neon, I would check with Expert Stylus in the UK. They seem to source Ortofon related parts , or suitable replacements. I gather you think the OEM cantilever is not salvageable. | |
| What is the best way to clean Vinyl? I hate to perpetuate this stream of consciousness, but gzm mentions doing his last wash with triton X100 in water and then air drying. I've used and still use water plus isopropyl plus Triton X100 for the past 25-30 years, in my VPI HW17. It bec... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm Neon, Based on the post by J Carr in which he discussed various cantilever materials and also expressed the opinion that in retipping or restoring a cartridge, one might be best off sticking to the original chosen cantilever material, on the premi... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm Neon, as I mentioned to you earlier, you need not worry about effective mass with either the DV505 or the Viv, but it seems you do enjoy the fretting. I run my MC2000 in my Triplanar with no problems at all . Of course, that judgement is made by m... | |
| Can I get more out of my Koetsu ? For what it’s worth, I am using a custom built, solid state current driven head amp in front of my tube phono stage with MM levels of gain. The results are impeccable, terrific. I love it. I did it because you have to go out of your way for gain i... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm Mijostyn, are you paying attention? Zenith. Most likely none of your cartridges is properly aligned due to zenith errors. Which means you’re in no position to preach about TAE. The ancient alignment gods, Lofgren and Baerwald, didn’t have to think... | |
| Best turntable under $4000 Curt, goodbye. I apologize for engaging you. | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm So I suppose that the traditionalists all use 12-inch tonearms, to minimize TAE as much as possible with a pivoted tonearm, and that they are aware of the effect of zenith errors on perfect alignment. Which is to say that zenith errors, which are... | |
| Best turntable under $4000 Curt, what’s funny to me is that you think $4000 is an extravagant, irresponsible amount of money to spend on a TT and tonearm. Whereas I rank it as a sweet spot where you can get a lot of bang for the buck, and I rank your hypothetical $100 Sansu... | |
| Can I get more out of my Koetsu ? I’ve seen various numbers for the internal resistance of these wood bodied Koetsus, but never so low as 3 ohms, except maybe for the Platinum version, e.g., Rosewood Platinum. My info suggests 5-6 ohms, but would still mate well with a current dri... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm Raul, You wrote, "VIV comes with no off-set angle and with a TAE of around 10° and due that only exist one null point the TAE 90% of the time is truly nearr to those 10°..." That’s just not true at all. Only at the extremes of the arc the tonearm ... | |
| Can I get more out of my Koetsu ? You HAVE already added mass to the tonearm, by using an 18g headshell. So there is absolutely no need to butcher your turntable in the process of changing the tonearm. That said, my experience with an Urushi does suggest that Koetsus like a high ... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm Alan60, I share your sentiments, but you wrote, to Raul and Mijo, "please have an objective listen to a Viv Labs and put all the theories, equations etc to one side." I am afraid there is no such thing as an "objective listen". That's the bugabo... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm Raul, thank you for the long post in which you quoted an analysis of the classical tonearm geometry and the reasons for it. Now would you be so kind as to post the source of the technical section that you seem to have cut and pasted into the audio... | |
| Dynavector XV-1S Expert Stylus n the UK are very professional, do great work, promptly. I just had my Koetsu Urushi retipped by them. (New stylus only.) It took 3 weeks door to door, and I dare say the cartridge is better than ever. |