lewm
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| Sell Me Your Women, Your Children, Your Vintage Turntable... Before I chose an idler for my array of turntables, I auditioned Garrard 301, Thorens TD124, and Lenco L75 or GL78. (I think they’re the same.) Lenco won. Did not like the TD124 at all. Belt driving an idler seemed to combine the problems of both.... | |
| Has anyone heard the SAT XD1 And I just ordered a copy of "Still Crazy..." from Acoustic Sounds, based largely on your review of same, plus my own appreciation of Paul Simon and his music. $125 for an LP is not quite on the same plane with t$50,000 for an SAT tonearm, but th... | |
| Another franken table story Do you mean to say that the stock platter on your MF turntable is ferrous AND that it wobbles (AND that the soldering on its tonearm wires was faulty)? These are all unacceptable no-no's, in my opinion. Did you actually take a magnet and see whe... | |
| Sell Me Your Women, Your Children, Your Vintage Turntable... Without going into the gory details of which drive system is best or whether vintage turntables or cartridges are worse than, equal to, or better than modern ones, my opinion is that the biggest gains in vinyl reproduction over the last 45 years (... | |
| SOTA NOVA, HR-X VPI, Technics 1200G recommendations? Dear Mijo, Please don't put words in my mouth. "Velocity" is a vector quantity, meaning it formally has both magnitude and direction, although we usually omit to specify direction. "Speed" is a scalar quantity, meaning it describes a magnitude o... | |
| Sell Me Your Women, Your Children, Your Vintage Turntable... Of course, anyone here knows I would disagree emphatically with much of what Mijostyn espouses, so I won't bother to point that out for the Nth time. But I did want to remark upon his last line: "There are a few that dabble in idler and direct dr... | |
| Upper Level Vintage DD Strenghts and Weaknesses Most of the vintage Japanese DD turntables were sold with thick floppy rubber mats. Most sound better with replacement modern mats of one kind or another. This is just a common observation borne of a common experience. It’s not evidence of a desig... | |
| Vinyl...should I stay, or should I go? Dear Mijostyn, was your last post directed at me? I am not here for a cure. Although I probably should divest a bit in turntables tonearms and cartridges. First I’d have to choose between two completely different speaker systems, and I like them b... | |
| Vinyl...should I stay, or should I go? I don’t think there is any moral issue here. You should do what you like, and I won’t think any less of you as a human being, either way. Although you said you don’t want to start a debate, your “dilemma” as stated will inevitably lead to one. It’... | |
| SOTA NOVA, HR-X VPI, Technics 1200G recommendations? No. What I am referring to is the fact that velocity is not a parameter to be found in the equation for the force of friction. And friction is the basis for the skating force. All other things being equal, friction is the same at 33 as it is at 45... | |
| SOTA NOVA, HR-X VPI, Technics 1200G recommendations? Ralph is a mentor to me so I hate to correct him and I do so with trepidation, but stylus velocity is not a determinant of skating force. Just saying. | |
| why did my record player slow down, speed up, then go back to normal? Brief power outage or surge, bad capacitor, belt slippage, bad bearing, severe stylus drag, finger on the platter, platter rubbing on plinth, Schoenberg, bad karma for having been a troll. | |
| SOTA NOVA, HR-X VPI, Technics 1200G recommendations? Jay, Yeah, but with a good DD, there is a brake that stops the platter on a dime, and it takes seconds to get back up to speed. So stopping the rotation in order to change or turn over the LP is not going to cause any extra delay. Along the line... | |
| SOTA NOVA, HR-X VPI, Technics 1200G recommendations? Mijo, What we disagree on is the idea that a typical spring-suspended turntable is the sine qua non of turntable isolation. I fully agree that isolation from environmental energy is important, and we agree on the why of it. But I don't think the... | |
| Sota Eclipse packages for VPI tables. The Walker is akin to the Eagle without the RR, except the Eagle has more power by far. And I suppose there are other differences in favor of the Eagle. I used a Walker for years before the Eagle, and it definitely is beneficial. You need to be su... |