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| TT, 12" Tonearm. Who tried and ended up preferring 12" arm? 12-inch tonearm made of cocobolo must have very high effective mass. Fine for low compliance cartridges. Not so fine for high compliance ones. There is no single best length or best material for a tonearm. | |
| INNER GROOVE DISTORTION Ct, My question was a simple one, I thought. You named the following as factors that impede the stylus: "tonearm setup, alignment [which is really the same thing], antiskate, condition of record". A lot of this depends upon how you look at it, b... | |
| TT, 12" Tonearm. Who tried and ended up preferring 12" arm? Dear Mijo, You wrote, "Even a cheap modern turntable transfers very little energy to the surrounding environment. A good turntable with a good record hold down system that dampens the record with a stiff multi bearing arm set up correctly will ... | |
| TT, 12" Tonearm. Who tried and ended up preferring 12" arm? Elliot, I guess you have decided to be anal about the rubber bushing and CW droop, but in any case, the UA77 is not in the same league with the UA7045 or 7082. I'm sure it "works", however. It's actually a piece of cake to replace the rubber gro... | |
| What is a Servo Tonearm? I think the term applies to linear trackers that are motorized. The pivot is pushed across the LP surface by a motor that receives feedback based on the movement at the stylus tip. Thus such tonearms describe a succession of tiny arcs as they move... | |
| INNER GROOVE DISTORTION Ct, You wrote, ""anything" that is going to impede the stylus travel, be it tonearm setup, alignment, antiskate, condition of record - will be heard more readily at the end. Another challenge for the vinyl audiophiles."Can you be more clear abou... | |
| Simaudio 810lp vs. Brinkmann Edison phono stage Raul, you’re correct but my point was that a preamp with an output impedance of 1000 ohms can drive even as low as a 10K load without problems of the sort you mentioned. And the great majority of amplifiers especially including solid state ones, ... | |
| TT, 12" Tonearm. Who tried and ended up preferring 12" arm? Mike, Your testfor the validity of a dust cover is fatally flawed. The problem with dust covers is due to the fact that sonic energy radiates from the cartridge as it traverses the LP. Trapping that energy under a dust cover so that vibrations bou... | |
| INNER GROOVE DISTORTION For what it's worth, the bearing type would have nothing to do with the magnitude of the skating force, all other things being equal, or of the amount of anti-skate needed to correct distortion due to the skating force. It's merely that with a un... | |
| TT, 12" Tonearm. Who tried and ended up preferring 12" arm? I’ll agree that the sagging photo is a bit too sagging. It’s condition is something like mine, which does need a new grommet.Since there are may be half a dozen people in the whole world who give a s**t about this question, maybe we should stop? A... | |
| TT, 12" Tonearm. Who tried and ended up preferring 12" arm? Chak, I am looking at your post of 12/22 at 12:06. Do you not see a slight sag in the CW, even for your pristine example? I do. | |
| INNER GROOVE DISTORTION I'm with millercarbon. If the distortion is "global" (i.e., in both channels), then I doubt it's due to a lack of anti-skate per se. Also, if you had a pronounced lack or excess of anti-skating force, you would hear the effect at the outer groov... | |
| TT, 12" Tonearm. Who tried and ended up preferring 12" arm? Chakster, I owe you a slight apology: The OP did ask about the Victor tonearm, so far as I can tell.As to the rubber grommet on the UA tonearms, I will accept your statement that the CW starts out level with the arm wand, because I never owned an ... | |
| TT, 12" Tonearm. Who tried and ended up preferring 12" arm? Chakster, the TT101 is not above criticism, but your statement that it’s “too old” is ridiculous, especially coming from you, and especially since the alternatives you name are about the same vintage. Each of those other TTs you name has its own A... | |
| Decca cartridge balance output question I think noromance is correct. You probably cannot hook up a 3-pin Decca in balanced mode and still have stereo. So you have his "I believe" and my "I think" to go on. For balanced mode, you need two ground pins that are electrically isolated fro... |