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| Step Up Transformers….Are they Worth the Trouble? Like I said elsewhere, an outboard PS designed for the Garrard motor will likely reduce noise by running the motor at lower voltages. There are several good options and easy to resell if you’re not happy. | |
| Garrard 301 - Project In retrospect, I think my advice was rash, as I have no experience with Garrard or with the plinth you did acquire. I can only claim intimate knowledge with Lenco GL75. ( And for the Lenco I made the ridiculous choice of slate for the plinth.) Sev... | |
| Garrard 301 - Project Put plinth first on your list that includes platter, bearing, and idler wheel, and I think you’re on the right track. | |
| The Jico SAS/B Stylus VN 5 MR The major advertising points around the V15 back in the day cited its tracking ability at very low VTF. So you have a basis to expect very good grades, albeit the aftermarket stylus could make a huge difference. I don’t know of any data, but the V... | |
| SME Model 20/12 versus TechDas AirForce V or Suggestions for a 2 tonearm TT THAT dust cover is fine for down time, in between listening sessions, but it should be stored away somewhere when you’re using that TT. It’ll resonate like a drum. | |
| Feel Silly Asking This Question Alignment Parameters I don't think it follows from "there is no right setting" that you may as well not use AS at all. And I apologize for coming on perhaps too strongly. I use AS on my overhung tonearms, of course, and I try for a minimum amount that eliminates dist... | |
| Feel Silly Asking This Question Alignment Parameters Mijo, I don't know whether you agree with me or not, but what I wrote is that AS can be exactly equal in magnitude (and hopefully opposite in direction) to the skating force at only two points on the LP surface. It seems to me this is true for an... | |
| Truly Stunning Vinyl Album This thread will only die when vinyl itself finally goes away completely, and even then… | |
| Step Up Transformers….Are they Worth the Trouble? If it were I, I would want to have a concrete reason for why an outboard Etsuro SUT would outperform the SUTs built into the Allnic, before spending the bucks for the Etsuro. There are more readily conceivable reasons why that might be a downgrade... | |
| Feel Silly Asking This Question Alignment Parameters At best, any AS setting can be correct (exactly equal in magnitude to the skating force) at only two points on the LP surface. There is a fairly broad range of settings that will satisfy that requirement, 11% of VTF being one of them. I’d be curio... | |
| Garrard 301 - Project Lalitk, That does look MUCH more stable. Good choice. 350 LPs is roughly 10% of my LP collection (though I estimate 3000 LPs, not 3500). I’ve got LPs stored in 3 locations on the first floor of our house in two antique cabinets and on some bookshe... | |
| Feel Silly Asking This Question Alignment Parameters Why must I have the Wallyskater, if I have both a Smartractor and a Feickert protractor? To set AS? Or what? | |
| Step Up Transformers….Are they Worth the Trouble? The problem with current drive is that to have true current drive, the input impedance of the phono stage has to be zero, and that's not possible (because the signal would go to ground; in effect a mute switch). Atma-sphere made the interesting p... | |
| Advice on a recently purchased Maplenoll Athena Mijo, The hoses are because the Proscenium has an air bearing platter and an air bearing tonearm, which is an homage to Maple Knoll, even also including the lead platter, albeit the Proscenium platter is gigantic in size and mass compared to any M... | |
| Advice on a recently purchased Maplenoll Athena Sorry to hear about Pierre. I used to be a casual friend but had not seen him or heard from him for many years, much more than 3 years. Because of the public and private silence, I did suppose that he might have passed, which is why I used the eup... |