lewm
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| Tonearm that surface mount without cutting a hole? Dynavector DV505, but not the 501 or any version of the 507. DaVinci Grandezza, maybe. | |
| Turntable upgrade recommendations: SME vs AMG vs Technics vs other +1 for Raul reminding you guys that the cartridge per se does not have the job of conforming or not conforming to RIAA; it's obviously the combined effort of the recording engineer who applies the RIAA correction to the signal on the LP and then o... | |
| Turntable upgrade recommendations: SME vs AMG vs Technics vs other SOTA reflex clamp works by gripping any spindle when the lever is pushed down and locked. | |
| New Transrotor TRA9 tonearm coming soon Possibly MD didn’t have time in the lead up to publication to delete the SME V from their catalog. The SME announcement was fairly recent. | |
| New Transrotor TRA9 tonearm coming soon It obviously does have the DNA of an SME V, and now I realize why Transrotor had to develop it, since SME is no longer marketing their tonearms as separate from their turntables. At first blush, I would guess SME makes it for Transrotor, or at le... | |
| Turntable upgrade recommendations: SME vs AMG vs Technics vs other You could use a lightweight clamp (not a "weight" per se) on a Rega, without violating the gospel according to Gandy. | |
| Brian Eno's Turntable Design No accounting for anyone’s taste in music. | |
| New Transrotor TRA9 tonearm coming soon I’m sure you did careful research before making your purchase. Can you say something about how you arrived at the decision, which is to ask what design elements or features appeal to you? | |
| Turntable upgrade recommendations: SME vs AMG vs Technics vs other Edgewear, Your list of cartridges you've owned is pretty close to my list of cartridges I would like to hear. Specifically the Transfig Proteus and the two Ortofons. At the risk of blasphemy, I'd like to compare them to my favorite MI cartridges... | |
| Turntable upgrade recommendations: SME vs AMG vs Technics vs other edge, I own both of those, too. However, as a verifiable "cheapskate", I have never stepped up to purchase a modern cartridge that is acknowledged to be top rung. For that reason, I cannot claim to know how the current state of the art would compa... | |
| Turntable upgrade recommendations: SME vs AMG vs Technics vs other I would love to hear or even read about a head to head comparison between the MC2000 and the Verissimo. Not at all because I dream the MC2000 is better but only because that would be a great way to dissect out the improvements that nearly 30 years... | |
| Technics SP-10mk2 oscillations Rays, you’re not the first guy to make this mistake, so don’t feel bad about it. I hope your SP10 was not damaged. Most likely it was not if you ran it only briefly sans platter. | |
| Brian Eno's Turntable Design How about Picasso or Dali as TT designers? I’d buy those, even if they didn’t work. | |
| VPI tonearm length improvement It's only an opinion. Chances are you WOULD hear a difference just because setting up a cartridge never comes out the exact same way twice. And possibly because the 10-inch version of your tonearm will have a slightly higher effective mass. | |
| Turntable upgrade recommendations: SME vs AMG vs Technics vs other And yet, some of those verboten match-ups would work fine in actual practice. As regards Raul's last post, the Ypsilon, which is indeed a very transparent phono stage, one of the best I have heard, makes only 39db of gain, which is barely enough ... |