lewm
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| TT or Cartridge...what to buy? If you must have belt drive, I would favor Dr Feickert from your list. That unit comes with an Origin Live tonearm and a nice cartridge. The Dr Feickert turntables are some of the few that make an effort to reduce belt slippage and "belt creep",... | |
| Need Direction... Alesis MasterLink or Tascam 2000? | |
| Linn LP 12 hum not coming from Bryton phono stage. Cartridge? | |
| Is a Linn Sondek LP12/Lingo/Ekos with a Cirkus update, the last turntable I’ll ever buy? Coach, I could only respond by saying what turntables I own and like. I have a bias against suspended, belt-driven turntables in general. So there you go. Am I "right" to shy away from such constructions? I can only say my bias is a product of... | |
| Is a Linn Sondek LP12/Lingo/Ekos with a Cirkus update, the last turntable I’ll ever buy? Impossible question. If I wanted to be sarcastic, I might suggest that it is the last turntable you will ever buy, but it might be a prelude to the upgrade-itis that afflicts some Linnies, courtesy of Linn. Which can be as expensive as buying an... | |
| Clearaudio Concept Tear Down I guess the proof of the pudding is in your observation that the pulley is no longer vibrating. That's the endpoint I didn't see mentioned before now. I suppose you replaced the belt, as well. Better to use a belt that does not deposit a coating... | |
| Inner tracks vs outer tracks Yes. There are millions of words on this subject on this forum and on any other forum devoted to vinyl. Too many, in fact. Read any thread on cartridge alignment. Try not to get crazy. | |
| Clearaudio Concept Tear Down I'm just curious. You say the pulley was coated with rubber. Does the rubber represent wear on the (presumably) rubber belt, or is the rubber coating part of the original build of the pulley itself? If the latter, what did you do to the rubber ... | |
| FR64 cartridge suggestions Did you look for his eBay ad? Probably it's been taken down, because I don't think he makes them any more for regular sale, but I certainly could be wrong. | |
| Does it improve the sound of a MM or MI cartridge by playing it through a phono stage? Dear Raul, While I yield to your generally superior experience to mine, I must say that all the information at my disposal would indicate that the 300 series of Acutex cartridges were induced magnet types. However, the 400 series are conventional... | |
| Which SUT? .... for .3mv/10 ohms MC cartridge into 3mv MM input sensitivity Sirius XM has the "Real Jazz" channel, which I find to be a Godsend when I am poking around in my car hundreds of miles from home. The "Sinatra" channel is excellent also. So far I've resisted the impulse to acquire a Sirius XM receiver for my h... | |
| Mingus Ah Um by Mofi So guys, isn't this a matter of opinion, not right and wrong? And neither of you has heard all the same issues or re-issues of Mingus-Ah-Um about which you are fretting, much less on the same system, so there is no common ground. I have an origi... | |
| Does it improve the sound of a MM or MI cartridge by playing it through a phono stage? Chakster, What you say may be true for you and me, but the OP is in need of some basic understanding before getting into the nuances of a 100K ohm load vs a 47K ohm load for MM cartridges. Right now he is fine with 47K as standard. And I must di... | |
| Does it improve the sound of a MM or MI cartridge by playing it through a phono stage? Look for "elliottbnewcombjr"For example, the thread titled "What SUT?...."You asked, "why does a cartridge have a recommended load impedence from a phono stage and so many phono stages have adjustments for that?" Because each manufacturer wants h... | |
| Does it improve the sound of a MM or MI cartridge by playing it through a phono stage? Soko, Please re-read my post. I am afraid you missed the main points."You need to match the output of the cartridge with the resistance/impedence [sic] of the phono stage." No, you need to match the output of the cartridge with the gain of the p... |