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| Fidelity Research FR64s Headshell dilemma Dover, You raise a question about which I have long wondered. We discuss the "grave" consequences of tracking angle error as if they are factual, which is to say verified by actual experiments. The claims for a correlation with distortion and ph... | |
| Fidelity Research FR64s Headshell dilemma Raul, I mentioned in my long post that although I do own the RS Labs tonearm, I don't use it much, for the other reasons cited. It is "tricky" to use, has no cueing device, and places the cartridge in jeopardy, because the unipivot bearing does n... | |
| Fidelity Research FR64s Headshell dilemma Yes, Raul, it is useless. You cannot use it to make a campfire or to deliver a baby or change a tire. All of this discussion is useless, on that level. I'm sorry if I offended you by my choice of subject. But can you see how all the blather ab... | |
| Fidelity Research FR64s Headshell dilemma Just one comment about the much misunderstood underhung group of tonearms. There are only a very few of them that I know about: RS Labs RS-A1, Viv Float, and the Yamaha. Can anyone name others? These are all straight tonearms with no headshell off... | |
| Audiophile turntables of the 60's and 70's I see I made a few language typos above. Too late to fix them. But you get the point. The Goldmund turntable to which I referred was the Reference. See here.https://zstereo.co.uk/2014/01/22/goldmund-reference/It’s still highly collectible if not a... | |
| Phoenix Engineering - Falcon - stopped working Some post on this website. | |
| Phoenix Engineering - Falcon - stopped working So far as I could tell when playing with it, the magnet is a simple disc type; the whole thing is the magnet. So I would have expected that both sides are magnetic. Maybe when you remounted it the first time, the orientation between it and the Ha... | |
| Phoenix Engineering - Falcon - stopped working Last time I checked, Bill Carlin, the designer of the Phoenix engineering gear, is still available by email, and he is very responsive to owners problems. He helped me out with an issue I had with my gear that was entirely of my own doing. However... | |
| Upgraded turntable - is my current setup sufficient? In this price stratum, the OP is better off with a good moving magnet cartridge, in my opinion. Moving coil cartridges, in this price range, tend to be the high output type, which in my experience are generally inferior to moving magnets at a simi... | |
| Audiophile turntables of the 60's and 70's During the early 1970s, I lived in New York city, and I used to haunt the well-known audio salons in the center of town. During those years I never saw a Garrard or Lenco turntable in use in one of these stores. As far as I can recall some used th... | |
| Distilled water rinse after ultrasonic cleaning If your cleaning solution is anything but pure distilled water, I would rinse with distilled water after cleaning. | |
| Just ordered a vpi avenger Tough to say what distance between you and the dealer begins to qualify for an extra set-up charge. If you feel the need for the presence of an experienced person during set-up, you should go ahead and ask for that extra. If they suggest a reaso... | |
| Has anyone owned or heard the OMA SP-10R TT? The new Rega turntables are interesting. They are designed around the principle of very low mass and high stiffness. These characteristics are chosen to minimize energy storage in the body of the turntable that then can be released into the plat... | |
| Has anyone owned or heard the OMA SP-10R TT? I’d like to hear that particular Rega, too. No argument here. But is the RP10 their top of the line? If so, can you really buy it for only $6K or less? EDIT. I just checked the price, and Raul is correct. It's a minimalist design for sure, which ... | |
| Has anyone owned or heard the OMA SP-10R TT? Chakster is 100% right, in my opinion. Which is to say we have the same opinion. If you want a great turntable, world class, for under $10K, get the SP10R and then have a plinth devised for it, which need not cost you more than a few thousand bu... |