lewm
Responses from lewm
| Dustcover Blues Duh!!! You demonstrated for yourself that your problem goes away when you lift the dust cover, yet your excessive fear of dust and static electricity and feedback induce you to want to change anything else but removing the dust cover during play.... | |
| New cartridge selection: help wanted Have you compared the new low output ART9Xa to the Delos? I’d consider that AT to be the proper comparator to the Delos. | |
| 10 Inch Tonearms I would use one of the 5-6 tonearms I already own that are not already in use. Or if I needed extra length I’d buy a good one used, but only if the TT required the longer tonearm, not merely to enhance performance. | |
| 10 Inch Tonearms Since a mono signal is entirely encoded in lateral motion of the stylus, one would think that maybe lateral compliance of the cartridge (not vertical) and inertial mass in the horizontal plane of the tonearm might be critical factors. Azimuth sett... | |
| Cartridge alignment, WallyTractor, SmartTractor, oscilloscope and Analogmaigk. You will get a dozen or more different responses. Some will say the Smartractor is too expensive, others that it’s too complex. Many will swear by protractors you’ve never heard of. Smartractor is a great choice. Don’t overthink it. | |
| Glanz moving magnet cartridges Having been a hen's dentist, I can attest that hen's teeth are quite rare. Which is why I left the profession to become a monkey's uncle. | |
| Fidelity Research FR7F history/changes Hey Dover, I realize that you live to skewer, but the Oxford English Dictionary gives 2 definitions for “insoluble”, one of which is a synonym for unsolvable or incapable of being solved. If you want to argue on the subject at hand, go for it. Oth... | |
| 10 Inch Tonearms Goofy, the whole issue of tonearm effective length is less critical, if you are going to mount a mono cartridge (not totally irrelevant but much less relevant). So use whatever length best meets the mounting requirements of your turntable. | |
| Fidelity Research FR7F history/changes I know this is a hot and controversial topic, but I have never owned a vintage phono cartridge that actually had insoluble problems due to aging of the suspension. In my experience, a few spins on the break-in bands of the Cardas test LP have alwa... | |
| Mag Lev Turntable. Your Thoughts? A solution for which there is no problem. | |
| Mag Lev Turntable. Your Thoughts? Maybe I am wrong about it being off the market, but I have read about it in the past tense. I have also read that problems with the system almost preclude it’s every day use. It’s just something to show off for friends. | |
| Why do my bass drivers shake violently listening to vinyl You won’t see the woofers dancing if they are in an enclosure that constrains motion at subsonic frequencies. You also won’t see them dancing if the preamplifier or amplifier in the upstream chain cannot pass subsonic frequencies, e.g., if you use... | |
| Thorens TD 165 Speed & Belt Setup Questions Of course clean the gunk and re-test speed. Also keep in mind that the goal is accurate speed while playing music. So if you haven’t done so, be sure to measure the speed while playing a record; perhaps it will be more accurate under that conditio... | |
| Technics SL1000 MK3 (SP10 MK3) performance/value VS modern turntables? I want to retract my criticism of Dover for his dumping on vintage direct drives. He has a perfect right to say what he wants, and thanks to JP Jones for his informative responses to Dover's points. On the question of the L07D servo, I think it d... | |
| Mag Lev Turntable. Your Thoughts? Not that this helps in any way, but the Maglev was widely described as "problematic", even during its brief period on the retail market. There were bizarre stories circulating about destructive malfunction events, like platter flying off into spa... |