lewm
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| Does Furutech lose effectiveness over time? "Records attract no dust and require no cleaning" Dear Kelly, I beg to differ. LPs develop significant static charge on their surfaces. And static charge attracts dust and holds it until the charge is dissipated. There are several causes, such as... | |
| VPI Fatboys versus others in its' tonearm weight class. If you find a good match to a cartridge, it will sound fine. Maybe some other VPI fans here can suggest a good choice. For me, unless the tonearm is grossly bad in terms of design and build, the important thing is that match to a cartridge. | |
| VPI Fatboys versus others in its' tonearm weight class. From skyscraper’s photos and Dover’s post, it does seem that the tonearm is "surface-mounted" on the plinth. Apparently there is a wide diameter hole that can’t be seen in photos, which permits the vertical shaft of the VPI tonearm to penetrate th... | |
| 2020 update : JC Verdier La Platine Thanks for the correction. I wonder what is an NSM. If you push on a Minus K, it does not behave as if primarily spring loaded, which is to say that a spring will exert a force directly proportional to its degree of compression or extension from... | |
| Received The MC2000 Back From Expert Stylus Today Pursuant to what Raul says about the MC2000, in his review of the MC2000, back around 1990, J Gordon Holt remarked that if one were to adhere closely to the guidelines about resonant frequency (8 to 12Hz range), the MC2000 would have to be mated t... | |
| 2020 update : JC Verdier La Platine I would never recommend mounting motor and TT on two separate platforms especially if either one of the two is sprung or otherwise designed to move in response to external stimuli. In that case both devices must be on the same platform of course. ... | |
| 2020 update : JC Verdier La Platine ledoux, To answer your question posed 9 months ago, in June, my switch to one idler (a highly modified Lenco) and four DD turntables (Kenwood L07D, Technics SP10 Mk3, Denon DP80, and Victor TT101) was motivated more by curiosity than by dissatisfa... | |
| Most beautiful turntable under $5k I agree with Nandric. I recommend de gustibus, because non est disputandum. Thanks to many others for the photos of beautiful vintage turntables that I'd forgotten about. The Empire and the B&O are exceptional examples of beautiful industria... | |
| Looking at Turntable: belt drive or direct drive? I don’t share Mijostyn’s blanket aversion to buying used LPs, but when I do buy them, I am ultra-finicky about condition and I only buy from trusted sellers after pesonal inspection (or in Tokyo, because the Japanese on average take splendid care ... | |
| Why are Nottingham Analogue Studio turntables so expensive in USA? Just looked it up. VAT in the UK and in EU countries was lowered temporarily in connection with Brexit. It’s between 5 and 10% in most countries, returning to 20% in the UK in April. Now’s the time to buy if you’re a citizen of one of those countr... | |
| Why are Nottingham Analogue Studio turntables so expensive in USA? Now that the UK is out of the EU, is there a disparity in VAT between the two economic entities? I’d bet there is. In Japan, if you present your passport at time of purchase you don’t pay their local sales tax, call it VAT or whatever. | |
| Where did he go? So Bill, which is it? Is he absent because banned or because depressed?i think he is courageous in a way and at a time in history where it counts. | |
| Received The MC2000 Back From Expert Stylus Today True. Which is why I haven't bought a current-drive phono stage for the MC2000; it's the only LOMC I own that would need it. The box built for me by Dave Slagle actually is nominally current driven, but its input impedance is higher than the out... | |
| Where did he go? I hope it was for reasons described by Raul and not for reasons mentioned by me. | |
| Where did he go? Chakster was an outspoken critic of the Russian government, even on these pages where politics is not the subject. So I have been concerned that he got himself in trouble for expressing his opinions. At the very least, he may have been deprived of... |