lewm
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| 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... | |
| Am I a hopeless audio snob? Technics may (or may not) have made a colossal error in designing the latest G series to resemble so closely their most popular ever but mundane looking SL 1200 series, but if you turn up your nose because of that, are you aware of the SP10R? And ... | |
| I need help describing the sound of a SET to a friend in English. SET aficionados tend to look down on SETs that (1) use many output tubes in parallel and/or (2) use triode connected pentodes or tetrodes. The Golden Tube amp is guilty on both counts. | |
| I believe I experienced great PRAT for the first time In vinyl reproduction, timing of the music is entirely dependent upon the speed accuracy and constancy of the platter. The platter thereby recreates what the musicians laid down. To make an extreme point, if the platter doesn’t move there’s nothin... | |
| Vinyl Newbie - So Many Questions! Goofy, I don’t get the impression that some LPs play fine, just that some are less objectionable than others. I reviewed the Marantz TT user manual. Since Marantz sells the TT, the phono cables, and the Virtuoso cartridge as a package deal, it se... | |
| Vinyl Newbie - So Many Questions! First, get the possible bugs out. Then, if you still feel there’s a problem, think about a phono stage upgrade. But I still say you ought to be getting better results with what you have. IF the cause is an excessive capacitance load, the effect mi... |