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| Torture test for a TT rig! The Shilabe is a very low compliance cartridge. The Triplanar is considered a "medium" mass tonearm, at 11g. Yes, your problem certainly could be due to a mismatch of very low compliance with a tonearm of inadequate effective mass. A cheap and ... | |
| SOTA NOVA, HR-X VPI, Technics 1200G recommendations? Not bitter at all. Just concerned to get the facts straight. What I am trying to point out to you, Mijo, is that you critiqued the design of the FR64S and fx tonearms without really being familiar with the design. The gurus who talked us all out o... | |
| Copper, silver, or gold MC cartridge coils? In keeping with what Dover infers about quality control at Koetsu, I purchased two Urushi, Wajima version, over the counter in person from a dealer in Tokyo, with my son acting as translator. When I got back to the US, I found that the cantilever... | |
| The Wand turntable I guess I got too bossy there. I will see if I can find the Aqvox doc that recommends "<20 ohms". My guess is that the vague statement you quote was cooked up by them in order not to lose sales to audiophiles who prefer to use HOMC cartridges... | |
| The Wand turntable Please read the owners manual for the Aqvox. There they do advise using a cartridge with an internal impedance less than 20 ohms. ANY cartridge that fits that description will blow away what you are now using, not necessarily because the BP2 is ... | |
| SOTA NOVA, HR-X VPI, Technics 1200G recommendations? Mijostyn, I think you are a nice guy, and I enjoy sparring with you, but what does rankle me is your consistent tendency to draw scientific-ish relationships between or among disparate factoids that are very often not at all related as cause-effec... | |
| SOTA NOVA, HR-X VPI, Technics 1200G recommendations? Yes, if you insist upon using a "crappy" rack, the SOTA suspension will help. And if you have a lot of warped LPs, vacuum clamp or peripheral ring will help. Also, if you are testing nuclear warheads in your listening room. | |
| Channel imbalance with turntable playback Meantime it’s probably the room acoustics. | |
| Anyone here have experience with the Denon DP-35F? It’s the DP80 and the DA401 that are no longer available new from a dealer. If you find a Dp80 in good shape, and I agree it is a worthy pursuit, I advise you to have it serviced by a competent technician. If the DP80 has not been serviced since n... | |
| Teres Audio motor help! I may change my moniker to "Leek". | |
| Teres Audio motor help! Sorry, I thought that the Redpoint, Teres, and Galibier turntables had a common origin, from a group of guys in Colorado and vicinity who started out to build their own turntables and ended up in separate businesses. Push come to shove, Thom Mack... | |
| Teres Audio motor help! Why not contact Tom Mackris of Galibier? | |
| Gold Note PH10, Bryston BP2, Clear Audio Smart V2 Just to point out that both the phono input and the phono cable will inevitably have some capacitance and that both parameters need to be taken into account if you want precise control of the capacitance load. The switches for input capacitance on... | |
| The Wand turntable austinstereo and OP, Just to be clear, I am not recommending a change of cartridge based in any way upon the cost of the cartridge vs the cost of a tonearm. My point was in answer to the OP’s question which is in general about his interest in upgr... | |
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