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| Turntable upgrade recommendations: SME vs AMG vs Technics vs other Here is a bad thing about a spring-suspended DD turntable: The energy put into rotation of the platter is also going to twist the chassis on its suspension, in the direction opposite to platter rotation (counter-clockwise). That is why it’s a good... | |
| Dynavector Karat 17D3: retip for $500 or get something new? Needlestein, if my MMC1 looks perfect under my microscope and if it doesn’t collapse at its standard 1.0g VTF, may I assume it’s ok? I recently noticed some distortion and I’m trying to track down the source. | |
| How to identify my weakest link? Ears are attached to a brain. It’s been shown many times that hearing acuity is only part of the way in which we perceive live music or an audio system SQ. Prior experience and self training count for a lot. Albeit deaf is deaf. Just ask. Beethoven. | |
| Will I Hear A Difference? Get a map and then read up on the last 80 years of history. There is no Czechoslovakia these days. There are the Czech Republic and Slovenia, two countries. Slovenia is a member of NATO. Ukraine is a huge independent country to the east of Sloven... | |
| Tonearm for Technics SP-15 If one is obsessed with that grounding system, best to make a ground wire with a banana jack of correct size to fit the female ground receptor in the base, and then use modern high end phono cables to carry the signal. (That would be my opinion.) ... | |
| Will I Hear A Difference? You ask, “will I hear a difference “, and then you report that you did hear a difference that is likely to translate to your home system. So +1 for Mijostyn. | |
| Smart power supplies for turntable Kingharold, In the context of your thread, wasn't it mentioned that your Clearaudio has a voltage regulator on board the chassis, feeding 12VDC to the motor? Either that, or the $1200 option includes a regulator at its output. Because of the vol... | |
| Is a Ortofon Black a step down from a Pickering XSV 3000 Raul, I hope I’m wrong but didn’t someone have a bad experience with Bluz Bros having to do with their selling non-original styli as “OEM”? | |
| Smart power supplies for turntable Anything you want. | |
| Is a Ortofon Black a step down from a Pickering XSV 3000 Have you considered having your stylus assembly rebuilt? I know this is a course of action usually reserved for MC cartridges, but in this case if you are desperate to preserve the original sound, and if you cannot find or afford an NOS XSV5000 st... | |
| What are your favorite recordings that sound best to you? I own about 2500 LPs. So at any given moment there are a few thousand LPs that I have not listened to "lately". Seems to me that every time I pull out a few LPs that are not in regular rotation, I discover another gem. Therefore, it would be ut... | |
| Smart power supplies for turntable So sorry, I meant "cindyment", not "candy". I mistyped "cindy". | |
| CUTTING DOWN A TONEARM CABLE What has all the above got to do with the flat assertion that Canare are the best RCA connectors? I am not in the market for a phono stage. Your amplifiers would benefit from balanced phono drive, however. | |
| Smart power supplies for turntable Good points to consider from candy. | |
| What Record Clamp for LP12? This might be a world record for bringing a thread back to life. 14 years!!! |