lewm
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| Denon DK300 Dust cover Broken My point is that you can protect your turntable from dust, when it's not in use, by any of several methods, including just cover it with a disposable cloth. But while you are playing an LP, at least I and many others have found that the typical l... | |
| Cartridge loading Raul, with due respect, I don’t think you took the time to understand what I wrote about damping. Since then, Ralph, Dave, and a third person have pretty much corroborated my idea, although all 3 explained it at a more sophisticated level. Thanks ... | |
| Any Love for the Pioneer PLX-1000 Yet? Chakster is not operating from a USA-centric prospective. | |
| Inner groove distortion solved! What's the point of getting anal about anti-skate, once one has arrived at a value that avoids grossly audible distortions? Every single LP will be different at the minute level, and no LP will be exactly like any test LP. Joey, I'd say, if you'... | |
| Question about TT Power Connections I don't know that it's a given fact that power cords make an audible difference on turntables, but if that is your belief, then I don't see a problem with using an IEC connection, although I tend to avoid them when I have the option of hard-wiring... | |
| Best tonerarm match for Acutex M320 III STR cartridge I love the Acutex 320STR III, and I have used it on my Dynavector DV505 and (believe it or not) on my Fidelity Research FR64S, where it really should not work because of the high compliance/high effective mass mismatch. I did use a lightweight (8 ... | |
| Assistance Identifying an Ikeda Cartridge Ok. Do that. | |
| MM Cartridge for music on the heavier side Chakster, I wish I knew where you shopped if you can find NOS Pickering, Stanton, AT , etc vintage MM/MI, at any price with such ease. | |
| Assistance Identifying an Ikeda Cartridge I sent a photo of the cartridge with the kanji label to my son who lives in Tokyo and is a scholar in Japanese. Here is his response: "I think it says “Tsuji” which is just a family name. I can tell you it has no functional meaning in terms of w... | |
| Help! When you say you swapped cables at the pre-amplifier, do you mean to say you swapped cables at the output of the pre-amplifier to the amplifier or at the input to the phono stage? Because if you did the latter that is no different from swapping t... | |
| If you were to design a tone arm, what would it look like and feature? Take a look at the SAT and work backwards from that. | |
| Starting research for turntable I would subtract Music Hall and add Basis and SOTA Cosmos to your list, ahead of Sapphire. I’d also add Nottingham Hyperspace or above. More to come from others. | |
| Assistance Identifying an Ikeda Cartridge If you go into any higher end audio salon in Tokyo you will find ikeda cartridges for sale off the shelf. They tend to be expensive even there. Among the many models there are several in the 9 series. Are you folks saying these modern post-ikeda-S... | |
| Advice for novice needed on turntable If you want bling look at Transrotor or Clearaudio, for examples. The Technics may not be sexy enough. Or take a look at custom models from Artisan Fidelity based on the Garrard 301. I prefer direct drive so if the Technics is in fact too tame thi... | |
| Breakdown of Turntable Performance The OP asked about relative IMPORTANCE, and most guys responded with a COST analysis. That's just one reason why the question is so complex. On a cost basis, I have often found that a very fine turntable and exceptional tonearm can bring out unex... |