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| Denon DP-3000. YAYs or NAYs ??? The Denon direct drive turntables of the 1970s were not quartz locked, because that idea had not entered the mainstream back then. The alphanumeric code for those turntables is "DP" followed by a 4-digit number ranging from somewhere below 3000 t... | |
| Rega Planar 10/Aria MC Phono Stage HUM If what you have with the Aria is truly "hum", then I am beginning to doubt it's due to EMI, but your story certainly is consistent with airborne interference, which usually is EMI or RFI. Except you've now revealed that you had no hum with your ... | |
| Denon DP-3000. YAYs or NAYs ??? You remember incorrectly. The Denon model that your mentor Chakster uses is the DP80. The DP80 is world's better than the DP3000, for one thing because its speed is quartz-referenced, whereas the DP3000 motor speed is not. I agree with Chak tha... | |
| 500 albums in a basement flood--worth saving? No. An LP won't warp just from getting wet. That's why RCMs don't warp LPs. Extremes of heat and cold and storing LPs incorrectly will warp them. To the OP: It depends entirely on how precious these LPs are to you. Since it was fresh water, ... | |
| Am I asking too much? Millercarbon, Why are you so angry? Let's at least give the local dealer a break and wait for his response to the OP, before we thoroughly assassinate his character. Also, Kevin Bacon is a real person; Nedermayer is a fictitious character in a mo... | |
| AT-ART9XI Cartridge - Reduced Compliance Agree with Raul. | |
| Rega Planar 10/Aria MC Phono Stage HUM "Hum" is generally used to refer to a 60Hz or 120Hz pure tone. Do you really have hum or what is more loosely defined as "buzz", which is a mixture of frequencies? Assuming this really is EMI and not a grounding problem, a Faraday cage may work, b... | |
| Do Tonearms need servicing Last Dance? Just hearing it makes me homicidal. | |
| AT-ART9XI Cartridge - Reduced Compliance BTW, a difference in compliance of 18 vs 15 would hardly make anything but a very tiny difference in the resonant frequency (Fres) calculation. Fres varies inversely as the square root of the product of M*C, where C = compliance. The square root... | |
| AT-ART9XI Cartridge - Reduced Compliance One of those two new versions, probably the lowest output one, seems to be an update (or an up-cost) of the ART7, in disguise. I am very fond of the ART7. I am not into or able to split hairs about minute differences among very similar cartridge... | |
| Do Tonearms need servicing If you are not careful servicing your vintage tonearm, you will soon have a gaggle of baby tonearms to care for. So use protection. | |
| Have a Victor UA-7045 tonearm coming I'll have to take mine apart to see what you are talking about. It's only apparent from the outside that there is the one black rubbery donut that creates the decoupling of the joint to the shaft that holds the CW. Do you mean to say there is an... | |
| Have a Victor UA-7045 tonearm coming Here you go, urethane O-rings up the yin-yang:https://www.theoringstore.com/store/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=367_454 | |
| Have a Victor UA-7045 tonearm coming Bill, Now I am not sure what it is you want to replace. I had assumed you are talking about the rubber (I used the word "rubber" as a catch-all; I did not mean to insist on rubber in the formal sense) donut that provides decoupling of the CW assem... | |
| Options for ridding records of static electricity I ask again, how are you measuring static charge? Because you cannot measure it with an ordinary voltmeter.As to my speakers, the point I was trying to make is that a single full range transformer with a step-up ratio of 1:90 is insufficient to mo... |