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| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm Pindac, I’m sure you know this, but because you did not mention it, I hope your underhung tonearm will be built with zero headshell offset angle. Dave, in your aural experience reported above were you listening to an RS-A1, or what? Also, what is... | |
| Best turntable under $4000 So a Realistic Lab400, valued at $350 CAD, or a JVC QLY66F, for sale for even less might actually be "the best turntable for under $4000"? That's rhetorical, because I don't think so. If you guys want to turn this thread into a "guide to inexpen... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm Do you detect a greater uniformity of any colorations, from lead in to lead out grooves? That's what I thought I heard with the RS Labs, less in degree and fewer variations in sonic character, compared to a typical overhung tonearm, as it travers... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm How did you create an underhung Schroeder? Does it have zero headshell offset too? | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm Raul, I advise you to listen to an underhung tonearm and consider that a mathematical solution to minimize TAE at all costs put forward in 1940 might not be the last word in 2023. That’s what I intend to do before forming a definitive opinion. Bas... | |
| So Weird- No Stylus Contact Woofer Pumping with Hana ML and Elac PPA-2 The idea that the ES charge is concentrated at one area on an LP or on the mat is contrary to data collected by Shure Corporation, when they studied ES charge in vinyl reproduction, albeit many years ago; they suggested that charge distributes eve... | |
| So Weird- No Stylus Contact Woofer Pumping with Hana ML and Elac PPA-2 How do you explain the periodicity? Wouldn’t the mat be uniformly charged? | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm Mijo, I get what you’re trying to say about the “sound” of a tonearm, but what’s your reference for sounding like “nothing”? Every arm is made of something. How can something sound like nothing? I keep thinking of George Costanza explaining to NB... | |
| So Weird- No Stylus Contact Woofer Pumping with Hana ML and Elac PPA-2 Pixies for sure. since no hypothesis offered so far really holds water, who is to say that a step up transformer would not eliminate the problem? But do you wish to continue to operate in balanced mode? I thought you got rid of the problem simply... | |
| Grace Level ll The high end Grace MM cartridges are top drawer by any standard, for any time period, in my opinion of course. | |
| Lyra Atlas experiences Dwette, you actually think you hear a difference between 453 and 470 ohms loading? I am either impressed with your auditory acuity or dubious. Or wondering about your phono stage. | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm For me, CF does not necessarily outperform stainless or aluminum or some other metal for use as an arm wand. I’d have to hear both versions. In general I have not been fond of CF in audio, except as headshell material. I do not care for the few CF... | |
| Turntable channel imbalance You wrote, "In this instance I referenced the digital copy in comparison." Do you mean to say that you listened to the CD or streamed version of the same music, and it does not seem out of channel balance? If so, that is not conclusive evidence ... | |
| Turntable channel imbalance It is unwise and often very misleading to judge channel balance while listening to stereo LPs. You have no idea what the recording engineer had in mind when he calibrated the recording equipment. Furthermore, the room itself often plays acoustical... | |
| So Weird- No Stylus Contact Woofer Pumping with Hana ML and Elac PPA-2 "If the signal was sneaking in on the ground, then the SE is tying the phono stage to the TT. And the pin-1 being disconnected, is not tying the XLR to ground. But this also would suggest that the XLR at the TT side may not be wired as push/pull a... |