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| Brand new Technics SL-1210GR platter wobble ... disappointed! The Crutchfield representative you spoke to is merely making excuses for his company as opposed to Technics. Yes, this is probably a factory defect that escaped quality control, but no, it has to be extremely uncommon. The Technics 1200 G series ... | |
| Koetsu Rosewood Sig or other Koetsu on medium mass arms I'm sorry, oh great one, but I still don't know who Mark Baker is, in the sense that I should need to care about his opinion. Much of what you say he says is much like what I wrote about the uncertainties of the calculation for any private end us... | |
| Brand new Technics SL-1210GR platter wobble ... disappointed! That turntable is damaged, probably in shipment. You should have zero visible platter wobble in any new turntable, let alone a quality product like that. | |
| Koetsu Rosewood Sig or other Koetsu on medium mass arms In fact, according to the internet, your tonearm (Origin Live Conqueror) has an effective mass of 19g, so it is on the upper edge of the category of "medium mass", whatever that is. In fact, can someone define "medium effective mass", for a tonea... | |
| Ever wanted to know, what your phono cartridge sounds like dead flat?? audio2design, Reading your post, I am not quite sure what you mean. Are you talking about the effects on frequency response of cartridge loading at the input to the phono stage (resistance and capacitance, mainly)? If so, those primarily can thr... | |
| Koetsu Rosewood Sig or other Koetsu on medium mass arms I don't know that it has strictly to do with the formula for resonant frequency, but my Koetsu Urushi did not come into its own until I mounted it in a headshell/tonearm with much higher effective mass (Ortofon LH9000 that weighs 18g by itself, on... | |
| Cart adjustment, that moment when you nail it! Wait two days or two separate listening sessions, before rejoicing, is my motto. | |
| Ever wanted to know, what your phono cartridge sounds like dead flat?? Since all LPs are subject to RIAA correction filters, both in the making and in the decoding, the "flatness" of the response, if you are talking about at the output that drives the amplifier, is really a measure of how accurate was the RIAA emphas... | |
| Morch DP-8 arm on a Helix Two turntable Mijostyn, I appreciate forthright comments, but if they represent opinions presented as fact, then I take umbrage unless there are also supportive data provided. In the case of the Murch DP8, what I see is a tonearm that does in fact conform to mo... | |
| Russian Tube Preamp, No Return, Here I go again Tubes do not inherently "hum", unless a particular tube has a defect that causes hum. Circuits in which we place tubes can be prone to hum if not designed properly, and most commonly hum is due to grounding problems. So use whatever is the recomm... | |
| Morch DP-8 arm on a Helix Two turntable Mijo, Admittedly, I have never owned a Morch tonearm, but they, particularly the model 8, are very highly regarded among those who do use them. I don't know how you can dismiss it out of hand in this case, unless you have heard one. I know you c... | |
| Can upgrading your front end make your bad records sound good? I have always felt that every true upgrade to phono reproduction brings LPs that I had earlier felt to be mediocre or even terrible, in terms of SQ, to a higher level of SQ, where at times I have come to love some LPs that I once would have given ... | |
| Manley Chinook Owners Tube Rolling I posted last time above that if the chinook is laid out like the steelhead, then the gain tubes are the pair of tubes nearest to the centerline of the chassis looking from front to back. the cathode follower output tubes are to the left and to th... | |
| MM Phono Input impedance change 47k to 100k ohms My first experience with a 100K load was with a Grado TLZ. Word was around that it really liked 100K. Sure enough, it sounded far better at 100K than at 47K. Since the TLZ was/is not even an MM but is an MI type, I never did assume that 100K wo... | |
| Sota or Technics Surfmuz wrote, " It’s a big deal to build nice quiet direct drive motor. Production requires lots of work and investments so it should cost different figures at exhaust." Can you say what you mean by "quiet"? Because, as I am sure you know, th... |