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| VPI's new "Vanquish" Ultra High-End turntable is a STUNNER! Br3098, The Vanquish is direct drive. Only the second such ever produced by VPI. On that level, it can honestly be said to be truly new and possibly improved compared to its single antecedent. You can decide for yourself if you are stunned by it. ... | |
| VPI's new "Vanquish" Ultra High-End turntable is a STUNNER! Bigkids says the table alone is only $15K, not $100K. The base price could represent a sort of bargain in the high end market. I agree with his basic premise that one should not go off with out knowing the whole story. However, the discussion of t... | |
| VPI's new "Vanquish" Ultra High-End turntable is a STUNNER! OK, I went to the CAF but I didn’t have time to go hunting for the Vanquish. I saw enough silly bling as it is. Spent most of my time buying LPs. The show is still running today, but I am going to stay home and hang out with our son who is visitin... | |
| VPI's new "Vanquish" Ultra High-End turntable is a STUNNER! I'm about to jump in my car to drive to the CAF. I'll see it in person, I guess. | |
| Vinyl “Pops & Clicks” eliminators The trick of the math is that the units are "pounds per square inch". Mijo is correct about how to calculate it, but the lie therein is that the pressure of the stylus tip on your finger in psi must then be re-divided by the actual area of the con... | |
| Testing the Yamamoto HS-4 Carbon Fiber headshell. Chakster, I am not sure I get your point. Who is it that confused the graphite Boston Audio record mat for the carbon fiber Yamamoto (or Oyaide, or etc) headshell? In addition to my two Yamamoto CF headshells, I also own the Oyaide one, just to ... | |
| So many great golden era DD tables out there, what do you recommend for $1000? bigkidz,I looked up the Sony 8750 on Vintage Knob. Some photos suggest it has a coreless motor. Do you know whether it does or not? If it does, then maybe it might be a stealth L07D, as you suggest.I don't think anyone would say that a Yamaha GT... | |
| Cartridge upgrade for vintage TT - MM or MC? Nagaoka are excellent, too. | |
| Cartridge upgrade for vintage TT - MM or MC? Please ignore or take with a grain of salt what Roberjerman says about the inductance of MM cartridges. True, the inductance of a typical MM is 1000 to 10,000 times that of a typical MC, but that is not the sole determinant of HF response. If it w... | |
| Vinyl “Pops & Clicks” eliminators In my opinion, playing LPs under a dust cover induces more sonic degradation in the form of coloration than a tick or pop as forms of noise. In my opinion based on personal experience, of course. The sweep arm idea is an interesting one, however... | |
| Is ground noise really normal? If so, why? Intermediatic, Tonearms (and the vast majority of cartridges) are indiscriminate. You will have four wires from the headshell plug going either to a DIN plug out or some similar output plug. If there is a DIN plug or some other similar type of t... | |
| Is ground noise really normal? If so, why? Ralph, First we need to determine if the OP is truly experiencing noise due to bad grounding. I'm not sure. But in balanced mode, I've never had any audible grounding issue, no matter how sloppy I might be with grounding the tonearm or turntable... | |
| Cartridge options for current gain phonostages (47 Labs) I know nothing about the Phono Cube, but what Chak says is interesting. In voltage world, 75db gain ought to be more than enough for even the MC2000. I can't imagine what cartridge needs 90db.pcosta, What you say about the 75db vs the 90db versi... | |
| Amazing Service from Galibier Turntables Thom is one of the best guys in this business, in all ways. | |
| Is ground noise really normal? If so, why? If you truly own an Ayre P5Xe, you are missing out. You have a true balanced phono stage, and you should be connecting your cartridge to the input in balanced mode. To do that optimally, you want a true balanced phono cable, which is a cable tha... |