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| Advice on a recently purchased Maplenoll Athena You might contact Mapleshade Audio. Pierre Sprey of Mapleshade used to upgrade those TTs. I don’t know if Pierre is still active but I think the company still exists. | |
| Step Up Transformers….Are they Worth the Trouble? I think it's fair to say that Mijostyn is relating his own experience, as he plainly admits. His experience is with one current driven phono stage that he owns. So I would say that for him, for his phono stage, and for his selection of cartridge... | |
| Feel Silly Asking This Question Alignment Parameters I agree with all you say above, but I just wanted to point out that increasing (what I thought was EL but my in fact be P2S) from 222mm to 225mm has little effect on effective mass, which of course has nothing to do with alignment per se. If we ar... | |
| Garrard 301 - Project That thing (Tallboy) holds 350 LPs? Can you optionally configure it so the center section holds additional LPs, instead of a TT plus electronics? I assume you will not mount your Garrard on it; I hope. It does not look sturdy enough for a TT or ev... | |
| Feel Silly Asking This Question Alignment Parameters Dover, I’m not quite sure what the argument is really about but my calculations suggest that a change in EL from 222mm to 225mm would increase effective mass by only about 2%. | |
| Step Up Transformers….Are they Worth the Trouble? Every one of us would say the same. No surprise. | |
| Feel Silly Asking This Question Alignment Parameters I am struggling with ..."any given frequency has a shorter wavelength as the groove speed declines,...." That is from Mijo's post but he was only reiterating a quote from Raul. Frequency and wave length are inversely and constantly related, rega... | |
| Is this a bargain? Someone mentioned that the "pre-owned" sample at LP Gear was sold. Yes, without looking at the AT website, you have the ART7 and ART9, formally discontinued but still available if you look hard, the ART9Xa and 9Xi, the OC9XL, and the ART20, etc. ... | |
| Is this a bargain? How can one dream of the AT33 competing with the AT1000 without having auditioned both? AT make several LOMCs that lie on their product spectrum between the AT33 and the AT1000 in both cost and performance. Of course one is free to prefer the AT33... | |
| Feel Silly Asking This Question Alignment Parameters This is why I am an alignment nihilist and now very fond of an underhung tonearm that has no headshell offset angle (or significant skating force) to worry about. All that’s left to worry about is zenith error. Even a 1 or 2 degree error in zenith... | |
| Feel Silly Asking This Question Alignment Parameters Mac, I think you’re referring to adjusting the cartridge (not the tonearm) for zenith error, which is worth doing but has nothing to do with setting overhang. OTOH, Wally can probably advise on how to alter headshell offset and P2S, if you’re usin... | |
| Feel Silly Asking This Question Alignment Parameters I don’t think I explained it so much as I was trying to point out that if you change recommendation for overhang, you have to change other parameters like headshell offset and P2S, if you want your two null points to lie anywhere in the playing su... | |
| Feel Silly Asking This Question Alignment Parameters Whether you can hear a difference or not, even an 0.5mm error or greater in overhang, provided you don’t also alter other standard parameters, certainly CAN make a drastic difference in locating the two null points, or even whether you actually ge... | |
| Micro Seiki MA707 vs CF-1 17 years later. I’m still here, but my MA505 is long gone. Never even used it but loved the quality machining. | |
| Step Up Transformers….Are they Worth the Trouble? Mijostyn, I am curious what you mean when you use the phrase "match by a few ohms", where you applied the term to SUTs. As to tubes vs SS, I think you would have trouble supporting the notion that the best tube phono stages are categorically less... |