lewm
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| Cartridge to turntable price ratio Why do I say the question is tedious or even meaningless? Because if you admit the possibility for a pre-owned turntable (and by the way, the tonearm is at least as important), then you cannot pinpoint what "should be" the cost for a given cartri... | |
| SAEC Making Tonearms Again! Pindac, I was quoting from your post of 5-23-22. You can be forgiven for not recognizing something you wrote a year ago, nearly. I do not at all challenge your judgment of the copper wire that you have been discussing. I have no basis to doubt you... | |
| Luxman PD 151 mk 1 or Feickert Volare If the platter surface and the tonearm mounting board lie in parallel planes, which means the stylus sits squarely in the groove at 90 degrees azimuth, as should be the case for any well made TT, I’d sacrifice azimuth adjustment for other more imp... | |
| 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? |