lewm
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| Experience purchasing a used high-end cartridge I am saying that inspection by a competent disinterested professional third party is what I would require if I were to buy a pre-owned megabuck cartridge. Speaking for myself only. I guess you don't agree, and that is fine. | |
| Experience purchasing a used high-end cartridge If you are inferring that there is some risk to the seller, I would think not, if you both (seller and buyer) choose an inspector who is well known to the audio community and with an impeccable reputation, like Peter Ledermann, etc. Or even bette... | |
| Experience purchasing a used high-end cartridge Like I said, trust but verify with an independent expert. I'd go that route without a second thought. | |
| Experience purchasing a used high-end cartridge I don’t know how anyone else’s experience could bear on your decision, unless you unearth another person who bought an LOMC from the same source. If you’re really insecure, ask the seller if you can have the cartridge inspected by a trusted retipp... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm This morning being a leisurely Sunday morning, I re-read the entirety of this thread from beginning to end, although I admit I skipped through some of those from naysayers that I already knew by heart. What struck me is that each of the major prot... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm Pindac, good question about stylus wear. We’ll have to wait and see; using theory, I could argue either side of that question in favor of either overhang with AS or underhang. | |
| Yamamoto HSA-01 headshell/head amp With Dave Slagle’s head amp driving the MM stage of my Silvaweld phono, there is no problem at all, and it sounds great. With my modified MP1 and with the 3160, I get good results but with a very slight sense of strain. On LPs with inherently high... | |
| Yamamoto HSA-01 headshell/head amp Here is my report on the Yamamoto HSA-01 self-amplifying headshell, used so far only with the Ortofon MC2000: Don’t do it. There is too much hiss or white noise at SPLs even below satisfactory. I suspect this may be because Yamamoto says in the fi... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm "I had to change to pivot alternative to reach the rigth bass range and to do this the second best alternative was and is use the Löfgreen alignments that puts that stylus tip nearer to what the LT does: NO MATTER WHAT. .." That depends, doesn't ... | |
| Anyone adjust cart set up due to ambient temperature changes? Could you tell which did the most good, changing VTF or raising the pivot? Any way , I don’t know what your baseline ambient temperature is, but an increase of 8 degrees F in our house would drive me away. | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm I’ll drink to that. But I will add that it does or did make a positive difference when I carefully aligned the cartridge using the L-shaped template, vs when the same cartridge was out of alignment by several mm using the same template, due to my ... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm Raul, Please convey my apologies to the Lofgren family for any perceived but unintended insult, but I also do not think it is insulting to Lofgren to point out that his work was primarily aimed at solving the geometry problem of how to minimize TA... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm Dear Reimarc, Thank you for this report. You or a member of your family must speak Japanese, because in my indirect dealings with Akimoto-san, I learned that he does not communicate well in English. Nevertheless, I too bought my Viv directly from ... | |
| Will VPI's Classic 3 sound much better with a SUT? Jason, you might review your own early posts here. You consistently stated that an MC phono stage adds 10X gain. Now I see that you meant to say that a SUT typically adds 10 X gain. If so, ok. | |
| Will VPI's Classic 3 sound much better with a SUT? For only 60db gain, I'd want a cartridge with a bit more than 0.5mV output. And tablejockey, I am sure that was a typo but my point is that 60db gain from an 0.3mV source gives 300mV or 0.3V. |