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| In praise of the mighty SOTA Sapphire What is “the money”? Which is to ask how much would one pay for a Star Sapphire ? | |
| speed controller for Lenco or Garrard Bill, "Condor" refers to the PSU supplied with the Eclipse kit by SOTA? | |
| Best Tonearm and Cartridge for 4K or under for restored Garrard 301 Just for the record, what I wrote and what I had in mind have nothing to do with tonearm length. The same rules apply no matter what the length, and I was not meaning to advocate for 9-inch tonearms. | |
| Best Tonearm and Cartridge for 4K or under for restored Garrard 301 Chakster, on the issue of graphite vs slate, I do owe you an apology if you were talking about mats in the first place and not plinths. The OP was asking about plinths, and I assumed you were referring to plinths made by OMA, which are, or were l... | |
| VPI Turntable Motor Pop - Did I Damage My Analog System? I am not sure this has anything to do with static charge build-up. If you solder a .01uF ceramic capacitor across the switch that seems to be implicated, that will eliminate popping due to the switch. Also, as someone else said, and despite the ... | |
| speed controller for Lenco or Garrard With my Lenco I use the 25W Eagle PS, If the Eclipse PS is ~25W, you’re good. | |
| Best Tonearm and Cartridge for 4K or under for restored Garrard 301 Chakster wrote that Oswald Mills Audio plinth is made of graphite. That is incorrect. They are made of Pennsylvania slate. Slate and graphite are two different things. Also, perhaps paradoxically, use of a heavier counterweight could have the effe... | |
| Should I buy a VPI SCOUTMASTER. I OWN 25 RECORDS. I forgot to mention that any store that sells 100 LPs for $28 cannot rightfully be expected to be a source of mint condition LPs. Or else they are selling polka records. | |
| Should I buy a VPI SCOUTMASTER. I OWN 25 RECORDS. No record cleaning machine in the world can compensate for what you call “beat up” records. Beat up records are records that have been damaged by worn out styli or incorrect tone arm geometry or too much or too little tracking force. Once LPs are ... | |
| Best Tonearm and Cartridge for 4K or under for restored Garrard 301 kanchi, I think OMA was known and is known for slate plinths, not granite. Many of the cognoscenti who have tried granite (I have not) were underwhelmed and preferred slate. Furthermore, there is a wonderful low production turntable based on the ... | |
| Best Tonearm and Cartridge for 4K or under for restored Garrard 301 The "beauty" of a medium mass tonearm is that you can easily add mass, if you decide to go with a very low compliance MC cartridge. Whereas, medium mass tonearms, as is, mate well with most medium and medium high compliance cartridges. On the ot... | |
| verdier Platine or Nottingham Analogue hyperspace Would work for the Notts too. | |
| verdier Platine or Nottingham Analogue hyperspace SOTA sells a 3-phase AC synchronized motor plus the drive amplifier plus an outboard tachometer that feeds back to the drive amplifier, as an all in one kit, called the Eclipse. That’s what I’d suggest for the Verdier. | |
| Where to Connect a Phono Preamplifier into a Line Stage We’re not necessarily ahead; we’re just old enough to remember. It’s a mixed blessing. | |
| Where to Connect a Phono Preamplifier into a Line Stage Ok. I can’t resist entering this discussion for no good reason: many linestages have an OUTPUT (not an input) usually labeled “Tape Out” which completely bypasses the volume control and any gain stage that follows it. So you can directly monitor t... |