lewm
Responses from lewm
| Detachable Head shell or Not? I could say that I purchased about 2/3 or more of my LP collection new, but covering a span of time from the 1970s to the present. Furthermore I obtained about 1/3 of my collection from the estate of my dear friend whom I know purchased all of his... | |
| Detachable Head shell or Not? What makes me smile is the idea of a $20K cartridge on a $100,000+ turntable in order to play even a mint vintage LP that one may have paid $5 or $10 for. Of course the buyers of those cartridges probably would not be caught dead with a used LP. T... | |
| Do hi-end DACs offer true value or diminishing return... This is analog world. | |
| Can you run the HANA SL MC at 100 ohms? No you cannot hurt anything with the “wrong” phono load resistance, and whoever wrote that bit of advice about never using 47K to load an MC cartridge is full of crap. It has been mentioned before on this thread, but in case you hadn’t read it, yo... | |
| Phono cables Does the hum change in intensity as the stylus traverses the LP surface? Is it loudest on the inner grooves? For phono cables, I suggest the high level AntiCables, made in Minnesota. You can custom order them any way you want. Superb sound. | |
| Rega planar 8 : Tracking force and Anti-skate settings You’d have to ask them. No one else recommends that much AS for a given VTF. Plus I don’t know how their AS device is calibrated. | |
| Rega planar 8 : Tracking force and Anti-skate settings Glad to hear that helped. | |
| Phono cables What cartridge? What turntable? Some cartridges interact with EMI from some TT motors, which is one of the only ways I can think of to have hum only when the stylus is in the grooves. | |
| I believe I experienced great PRAT for the first time Pesky, in response to your rhetorical question, i dunno. DO Rega turntables produce PRAT, in fact? You suppose they do, but that’s an opinion to which you’re entitled. | |
| Am I a hopeless audio snob? AMG also make fast Mercedes Benz’s. Your choice, like my choices, is the natural result of your past audio experience. Thus it’s very personal. I’m glad you didn’t just follow a dealer’s advice blindly, as one might have inferred. Congratulations... | |
| Am I a hopeless audio snob? What happened was you noted an objection to the appearance of the Technics G series turntables, without actually naming them, and this elicited a bevy of responses from the belt drive crowd who are typically activated when anyone mentions the poss... | |
| Rega planar 8 : Tracking force and Anti-skate settings Dear 13, your findings for setting AS make no sense. Since skating force is always changing as you play an LP, it cannot be true that +/-.01g of AS makes any real difference. There is NO single correct amount of AS. Moreover, even 50% of VTF seem... | |
| Am I a hopeless audio snob? Richop, I am lying in bed this morning, thinking for some reason of this ridiculous thread, and the Transcriptors Reference came to my mind too. There never was a cooler looking TT. For looks alone it can’t be beat. With the OEM Transcriptors tone... | |
| Am I a hopeless audio snob? Thank you for your 1950s attitude toward Japanese made products. Perhaps you were sleeping the last 60 or so years. | |
| dumb down an LP-12 Here’s the thing about the ARXA hammer test and all similar brags about the resistance of a spring suspended TT to banging on the plinth: Who cares? Why is that relevant to playing a record? It was good advertising. Period. (ARXA was my first TT t... |