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| Parts for Dynavector 501 Tonearm That’s not Colby’s business. I did provide his email, which I somewhat regret because I feel I’ve violated his privacy. It was too late to delete once I realized my indiscretion. Within the last 8-10 years I’ve bought parts for DV505 and 501 from... | |
| One stereo or two (stereo and mono) cartridges? I beg to differ with "spatialking", where he states "Also note that many mono recordings are not RIAA compensated, so spending a lot of money for a mono cartridge could be somewhat of a waste." The statement has merit if you are talking about 78 r... | |
| Field coil dava cartridge You might want to read the discussion of the DaVa cartridge on the thread titled “worlds best cartridge”. Mike Levign (sp?) who comments on that cartridge is the one guy who certainly has heard it and continues to hear it in his home system. He lo... | |
| Parts for Dynavector 501 Tonearm The US distributor for DV is excellent in this regard, and he won’t soak you for cost. I apologize for not being able to source his name and location at this moment. I will search around my various drawers of turntable related junk and accessories... | |
| Has Jasmine come out with a new phono stage? For best sound per dollar and assuming a metallized film type capacitor (vs a film and foil type, which generally costs more), I have found that Auricaps are excellent and Dynamicaps perhaps even better. Metallized film types are generally small... | |
| Early SOTA vs New Something: Conundrum Reed is built like a Triplanar. A 9-inch Reed won’t easily fit my Technics SP10 Mk3, but the 10.5-inch version of the Reed works easily. Likewise Triplanar is now available in12-inch length, which would be no problem. You might be able to source a... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? If you don’t like my not taking a position, is that your final position on my not taking a position? My position is that many LPs are not great sounding but many are great sounding even compared to live music, and we attend live performances once ... | |
| Does the Eminent Technology 2.5 arm work well with the Transcriptors Reference turntable? What I say to Mijo is that there is another opinion regarding horizontal effective mass that is espoused by some who are at least as intelligent as he is and just possibly better informed in this particular area of engineering than he may be. He s... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? Do you understand that I took no position in the statement you’ve quoted? I said the proposition was not resolvable, only. If you think you can “prove” with data the notion that digital is superior, there will always be others who won’t agree. Tha... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? Raul, once again you unfairly presume to know what I think. | |
| Early SOTA vs New Something: Conundrum I suppose you’ve made an in depth analysis of servo circuits in DD turntables and found the “problems” and that they’re all alike. And very different from the Eclipse system, because you own it. Bollocks. | |
| What is the best tonearm for a SOTA Nova turntable? Typical speaker is 4 to 16 ohms. Any SS amplifier will have an output impedance <<1 ohm. That’s voltage drive, mainly. Tube amps are inherently voltage producers. That’s why they can have problems with four ohm speakers and particularly with... | |
| What is the best tonearm for a SOTA Nova turntable? Holmz, you could change the predicate of that sentence you quoted to …”constitutes a miniature voltage generator “, and the sentence would be equally correct or incorrect. It’s the impedance at the interface that determines whether you’re in curre... | |
| Balance control? While extremes of azimuth adjustment do have an apparent effect on channel balance, the cure is worse than the disease, because the stylus tip will be at a suboptimal angle to the groove resulting in aberrant wear on both the stylus and your LPs a... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? Nandric pointed out that the question posed by the OP is poorly conceived. So did I and others at the top of this thread. Which is maybe why it’s degenerated into an even more endless and unresolvable debate about analog vs digital. By now we know... |