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| Considering a new Phono Pre-Amp For what it’s worth, the Chinook preamplifier is a hybrid design. It uses both transistors and tubes. Perhaps for this reason it is much less affected by tube rolling than any pure all tube unit would be. I say this from my experience with the Man... | |
| Tonearm mount to the plinth vs arm board vs rotating arm board vs isolated tower Geoff, Enough already with the seismic forces. Have you figured out that no one is listening? | |
| Wally Malewicz's legacy lives on...Wallytractor Melm, some setup tools ARE inherently better than others, IMO. If you don’t want to pay for the best or for anything that might be better than the TTB protractor, that is your right, of course. But do keep an open mind. ( I’m not touting the new W... | |
| Ikeda 9 Cartridge Squeaking Like the others, I suggest add mass to the WTR tonearm or get a higher effective mass replacement. I recently ( this week) experienced an epiphany with my similarly low compliance Koetsu Urushi. I’ve owned it for about 10 years, used it in a few ... | |
| Tonearm mount to the plinth vs arm board vs rotating arm board vs isolated tower Chak, To your knowledge, is Toho still in the business of selling those accessories? The Torqueo stuff is beautiful (like a seashell, apparently) but not as substantial as Toho's. | |
| Tonearm mount to the plinth vs arm board vs rotating arm board vs isolated tower Slowly, inevitably, this thread is backsliding into the old argument that was the central topic in the Copernican thread. I felt that over time (and months of haggling), Halcro's approach actually began to look like an idea I could like, so that ... | |
| Tonearm mount to the plinth vs arm board vs rotating arm board vs isolated tower Have you guys ever seen Halcro’s photos of the interior of his Halcro preamplifier? Something like that in black. | |
| can anyone recommend a person in LA area to pay to install a tricky Koetsu cartridge Like Mike Lavigne said, the only thing that would make a Koetsu "tricky" is that it's hard to see the cantilever and stylus after you've gotten the top surface of the headshell to be plane parallel to the LP surface, which is a good enough startin... | |
| can anyone recommend a person in LA area to pay to install a tricky Koetsu cartridge This is a good time in history to develop some do it your self skills. Why not look up some videos on YouTube that describe how to install a cartridge? Michael Fremer has several, and I am sure there are others. ( Search for Fremer or Stereophile ... | |
| Tonearm mount to the plinth vs arm board vs rotating arm board vs isolated tower For the record, Nikola, I have never replaced or modified the platter on my Lenco. Along with the motor and idler wheel, the platter is OEM. I am in fact skeptical of those who have doubled up on the platter, using two original platters, one on to... | |
| Tonearm mount to the plinth vs arm board vs rotating arm board vs isolated tower Halcro, if your arguments are good, it’s really not necessary to be insulting. | |
| Tonearm mount to the plinth vs arm board vs rotating arm board vs isolated tower I've heard the Doehmann Helix in a system with which I am very familiar. It indeed seems to be a fabulous turntable, perhaps the best belt-drive I have ever heard. My friend has since sold it because he needs to downsize and decided to go all di... | |
| Tonearm mount to the plinth vs arm board vs rotating arm board vs isolated tower When I was building slate plinths for various of my turntables, I adopted the practice of not creating any tonearm mounting boards or accommodating for them. I therefore had to limit myself to surface mount tonearms, like Chakster says. These inc... | |
| How much difference do lower mass cartridge clips make in playback? Copper clips are unlikely to be pure copper. Also especially silver clips are very unlikely to be pure silver, because both of these metals would be a poor choice for maintaining a tight grip on the cartridge pins. Most cartridge clips are problem... | |
| What is tour opinion on the Aesthetix Rhea signature and the Calypso signature Tablejockey, If you’re outside, just stay 6 ft away from other people, masked or not masked. If you’re inside which should mostly be for buying groceries the store should have a policy requiring a mask, although what some people wear is a joke. I’... |