lewm
Responses from lewm
| Prana Distribution Dear Idler, You did write, "Well, guess my due dilligence wasn't that good... Be warned !" Need I point out that those words go beyond wondering whether anyone had prior experience with the company? Anyway, I hope this all has a happy ending ... | |
| Cartridge burn-in Mijostyn, I’m a car guy too, so you need not teach me about flat spotting. Tires are filled with air, which has a lot to do with the phenomenon. So far as I know, cartridges are not filled with air. The subject is irrelevant. | |
| Review: Pure Fidelity Harmony Turntable How does the new controller sense the platter speed, so as to correct it for momentary perturbations? Is there a sensor under the platter, for example? | |
| Prana Distribution Medford, MA, is 17 minutes from Cambridge, MA, by car. The discrepancy in location is hardly an indication of criminality. So what’s the beef? | |
| Prana Distribution The name is familiar. It’s not new. What do Prana distribute? | |
| Cartridge burn-in On the original Cardas LP, bands 2a,b, and c encode wide frequency sweeps that are ideal for this purpose. That’s on the original 33 rpm version of the LP. The current version is at 45 rpm on side 1. I use tracks 1,2, and 3. (I own both the older ... | |
| Cartridge burn-in To be clear, I’m not saying that a bad sounding cartridge gets good once it’s broken in, although in individual cases that might happen since judgement is almost entirely subjective. I am only saying that cartridges that are either brand new or ha... | |
| Field coil dava cartridge Dover, once again I don’t want to go off on a tangent or to steal this thread, but when I said “within 0.5 db”, to me that means within plus or minus 0.5 db in relation to 0db. That’s what I mean when I say that. I recognize there is a possibility... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? Mijo, I hope you know that my question was not meant to upstage you. I was merely looking for the information you've kindly now provided. I've hooked up my BMC to three different low output, low internal impedance cartridges, and I can confirm th... | |
| Ultrasonic record cleaners What does it mean when you say that an ultra sonic record cleaning machine is “laboratory grade”? Is that just a euphemism for “expensive”? | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? Mijo, does your Seti offer both current- and voltage-mode drive? Was wondering how you can know, except by guesstimate, that you are getting "6db" more gain from current-drive vs voltage-drive. Most companies won't list a gain spec for their cur... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? To the best of my recollection, The Voice was SS’s first cartridge after they had already marketed the SMMC line , which are basically copies of B&O cartridges. But you may be correct that Sussuro came very soon after Voice. | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? I think once upon a time there WERE two versions of the Voice, one of which was low output. There wasn't much difference in cost. Do you REALLY know that the Voice and the Sussuro are exactly alike other than coil windings? There are at least ha... | |
| Cartridge burn-in No matter how you design your experiment, unless you are willing to spend money to do it, the design is fraught with sources for error that could skew the results. If you compare a used or broken in cartridge to a new one, then stylus wear could ... | |
| Cartridge burn-in Reason why manufacturers might not want to do "break-in" in advance of sale: Because, in my experience, no cartridge is happy just sitting around, whether as a freshly built virgin in a sealed gift box or on the end of a tonearm. In both cases, ... |