lewm
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| Phono Cartridge Purchase from Asia? I don't know anything about the seller in question, but consider the fact that the Japanese yen has been severely devalued compared to baseline averages, with respect to many foreign currencies, for the past several months or more. Then add the fa... | |
| A cartridge with more bite, please and thank you The only experience that counts is when you finally buy a cartridge and listen to it. The opinions of strangers have helped you to narrow your choices but in the end it’s in the listening where you’ll learn most. | |
| TONEARM DAMPING : DAMPED OR NOT ? ? USELESS ? ? WELCOMED ? ? I just googled “tubing made out of sapphire”. In the US there are at least two companies that will sell you lab grown pure Sapphire tubes of many different lengths and diameters for very low cost per tube. Who will be the first among us to make hi... | |
| TONEARM DAMPING : DAMPED OR NOT ? ? USELESS ? ? WELCOMED ? ? Rsf, thank for referencing that thread on WBF. Interesting to note that Kuzma rationalizes cartridge compliance/ tonearm effective mass mismatches, IF a massy tonearm (i.e., his Safir ) is mated to a high compliance cartridge. He points out that m... | |
| TONEARM DAMPING : DAMPED OR NOT ? ? USELESS ? ? WELCOMED ? ? The question is whether boron nitride coated titanium (if that’s what Technics used) is superior to other materials for dissipating energy, not so much whether it can be bent by a human exerting strength to bend it. I doubt many arm wands of any k... | |
| TONEARM DAMPING : DAMPED OR NOT ? ? USELESS ? ? WELCOMED ? ? Raul, in alluding to the fact that “some” of the respondents have conflated tonearm to cartridge matching based on the standard resonant frequency calculation with how tonearms control energy put into them by the act of playing an LP, I certainly ... | |
| TONEARM DAMPING : DAMPED OR NOT ? ? USELESS ? ? WELCOMED ? ? What did I just write that’s in conflict with what you just wrote? And I know very well how you feel about the FR64S. Nothing I just wrote was in defense of the FR. Try to work on understanding my English before needlessly attacking it. | |
| TONEARM DAMPING : DAMPED OR NOT ? ? USELESS ? ? WELCOMED ? ? In reading through this thread after so many months of its existence, it seems to me that most commenters are mixing together two different phenomena. The first is the resonant frequency that we calculate from tonearm effective mass and cartridge ... | |
| Sumiko Flux Buster Demagnetizer Whether needed or not, I don’t think degaussing a SUT could harm it. | |
| Sumiko Flux Buster Demagnetizer I meant to add that I do not mean to rain on anyone's parade who hears a benefit from fluxbusting. Go for it, carefully. | |
| Sumiko Flux Buster Demagnetizer Mijostyn, Dover’s question was whether SUTs with iron or iron alloy cores could become magnetized, contrary to my blanket assertion that SUTs don’t become magnetized. I relayed this question to Dave Slagle by email, and Dave responded with a lengt... | |
| Sumiko Flux Buster Demagnetizer Dover, you raise a good question, and perhaps I was flippant in making that claim, since I was thinking of nickel and other metals that are not iron-ish. But I also think it is that even if the core does magnetize while the SUT is in use, it does... | |
| Sumiko Flux Buster Demagnetizer Seems gravity has to do with time dilation due to mass of earth. Who woulda thunkit? | |
| Sumiko Flux Buster Demagnetizer Good question. I have no idea how it works. But Stan Ricker says his LP demagnetizes on (as I recall) cuts 2a, b, and c on side A. I am guilty of believing Stan Ricker. I have wondered how it would work, but not as much as I wonder about othe... | |
| Cary Audio SLP 98 Mundorf capacitors & Hexfred rectifiers upgrade This is an old thread with an old question that no one answered. I came here looking for a comment on Mundorf MCap Evo Alu capacitors used in a PS, but I wanted to mention to the OP that there is no rationale that I know of to use Hexfreds in our... |