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| Cartridge to turntable price ratio These “proper” cost ratio questions are…. tedious. | |
| SAEC Making Tonearms Again! Dear Pindac, I read in your post above, "larger crystals coalesce with each other, forming monocrystalline areas...." There must be a semantic issue, but how can coalescing crystals, which implies that the crystals aggregate in some way, result i... | |
| Was I Expecting Too Much And finally, Jeff Bezos will own us all. | |
| Was I Expecting Too Much Cbl117, in the present tense, I had no particular dealer in mind. I was thinking of some like experiences I had back in the 70s In Manhattan with Lyric HiFi and some others. When Mike Kay was on the floor at Lyric he was a prince, even with a low ... | |
| Was I Expecting Too Much By the way, if you are deciding between the two Brinkmann models only, then the odds of your hearing the probably subtle difference between them in a system with which you are not intimately familiar are small. If between a Brinkmann and somethin... | |
| Tonearms without anti-skate, damage to records? dogberry, How do you know that you are setting AS to "half of VTF"? You can know the VTF in grams very precisely, but how do you know the AS force at the headshell, where the skating force is manifested? For me, that is where we are blinded unless... | |
| Was I Expecting Too Much Obviously, your request was perfectly reasonable. I am going to guess that your dealer's salon is located in an area of a large major city and in a neighborhood where his walk-in customers are apt to be affluent. In most parts of the US, which d... | |
| What are the audio differences you hear with turntable Mats. No_regrets, I probably shouldn’t have mentioned the L07D. In original form, the stainless steel mat was referred to by Kenwood as a “platter sheet”. It’s integral to the platter and constitutes a significant fraction of total platter mass. The dir... | |
| If it sounds 'great', everything is ok? I've not noticed that AS has much affect on the apparent L to R location of images on an LP, but I confess I never paid much attention to that when setting AS, because imaging is more about azimuth adjustment, in my mind. No argument here. | |
| If it sounds 'great', everything is ok? Dear Elliott, I cannot find where you might have written about the amount of AS relative to VTF, and I do see where you described how you arrive at a suitable setting, using a grooveless area on vinyl. Your method as described would be unlikely to... | |
| If it sounds 'great', everything is ok? Just one teeny, weeny thing: Back up the thread, Elliott recommended to set AS to equal VTF or some high percentage of VTF. With all respect to E, most agree that the AS force should be set to some small fraction of VTF. In another concurrent th... | |
| Vinyl static ionizers who's used them? Lance, in your unit, does it have plates inside that you have to clean periodically? | |
| Tonearms without anti-skate, damage to records? Raul, I am very surprised by your opinion. I am also surprised that you have the hubris to suggest that my hearing R channel distortion in the absence of AS in my system is evidence that something is wrong with my ears or my system. Whereas theory... | |
| If it sounds 'great', everything is ok? Having over the decades occasionally found that I had been happily listening to a system that was later found to be out of whack in a major way, I would say the short answer to the OP is "no". But some imperfections of set-up or function are OK t... | |
| Tonearms without anti-skate, damage to records? Let’s be clear on one issue: for all pivoted tonearms where the stylus overhangs the spindle, there IS a skating force at all times during play. So AS is not something you can choose not to believe in. The ways in which AS is created in different ... |