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| Tonearms that work well with better Koetsu stone body cartridges Don’t know about the stone bodied models, but the FR64S with Ortofon LH9000 headshell (18g) gets more out of my Urushi than any other tonearm ever, to include Triplanar, Reed, and the Kenwood L07J tonearm on my L07D turntable. | |
| Is a Ortofon Black a step down from a Pickering XSV 3000 I say again, the LP Gear replacement styli are not “fake”. They are simply a slightly different but related shape (Shibata), compared to the correct original StereoHedron type. LP Gear discloses this fact in their ad copy. There is no attempt to d... | |
| VTA-Nervosa a Curse or a Blessing? sbank, Do you actually mean to say that you used to re-adjust VTA for every different LP? It’s a wonder you haven’t become alienated from vinyl altogether. Else you are very zen. One and done is good enough for me, unless I hear an obvious issue w... | |
| Is a Ortofon Black a step down from a Pickering XSV 3000 Raul, I yield to your superior knowledge on this subject, but with all due respect, your post does not contradict mine, unless you are saying that the Stereohedron does not have an extended treble response. I refer you to this article from the So... | |
| Powering Old Infinity towers with Peachtree 125 sky-- with analog EQ I’d love to hear a servo static I again. It was pretty spectacular back in 1971 and amazingly expensive at $2000. Can you imagine?Any amplifier will work and sound better into a net 8 ohm load (4 ohm speakers in series) than it will work into a n... | |
| Is a Ortofon Black a step down from a Pickering XSV 3000 Mijo, I agree with you that what LPGEar sells are not fakes, in the sense that they are real diamonds, and real styluses. However what no one has reproduced in the modern era is the stereoHedron shape which was exclusive to Pickering and Stanton c... | |
| Powering Old Infinity towers with Peachtree 125 sky-- with analog EQ Here is a suggestion: Fix the room, not the electronics. And if that doesn't cut it, from what I read, doing EQ in the digital domain is superior to doing it in the analog domain. Every analog equalizer I have ever heard does serious damage to S... | |
| Should I replace Denon DL-103R with Dynavector DRT-XV1 mounted You speak of Mike in the past tense. I hope he’s still with us. Yes? | |
| How good is the Micro Seiki DDX-1000 Direct Drive turntable ? For others interested in this issue, you might want to see the thread started a few years ago by Halcro regarding problems with direct drive turntables of vintage origin. I wrote in that thread that virtually no vintage turntable is irreparable as... | |
| Powering Old Infinity towers with Peachtree 125 sky-- with analog EQ You might consider wiring the speakers in series, all else being equal. | |
| Should I replace Denon DL-103R with Dynavector DRT-XV1 mounted There is no doubt that the DV is superior to the Denon, in this choice scenario, but if the downstream equipment is lacking, then maybe it would be better to upgrade the system first, and THEN look for the DV or similar high end cartridge, in my o... | |
| Should I replace Denon DL-103R with Dynavector DRT-XV1 mounted esputnix, Tell us about the rest of your system, and you will get better advice. The SME IV is a good start. A lot of audiophiles believe that a mediocre cartridge on a good tonearm and with good downstream equipment is a better way to go than a ... | |
| All record weights the same ? I would just say to a neophyte, approach a 900g record weight with caution, regardless of the drive system, especially if your turntable has a lightweight platter, which suggests the bearing may have been designed with low platter mass in mind. Th... | |
| Azimuth "recording" Mijo, I hope you are joking. | |
| Azimuth "recording" I hope we can all agree on one point: There is no need to worry about crosstalk with a mono cartridge. In the case of a mono cartridge, one would only adjust azimuth so as to make sure the stylus is sitting symmetrically in the groove. |