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| TX-103 break in. Charliee, In one of your responses, you mentioned hooking the CDP to the INPUT of the SUT. I am guessing that was a momentary lapse; Loesch and all the others are talking about hooking the signal to the OUTPUTs of the SUT. Just to be certain.Whi... | |
| Anybody out there re-cantilever their cartridge with a Soundsmith Contact Line diamond ? Classe DR9 is already Class A. | |
| Anybody out there re-cantilever their cartridge with a Soundsmith Contact Line diamond ? For me, the most significant information in the cited post by J Carr, who does know about this stuff, is that the cartridge is a closed system made up of parts that have been selected to work well together, or at least according to the designers i... | |
| Technics SL-23 TT opinions.. mated with Denon DL-103? Who here mentioned using a Black Widow with a low compliance cartridge?But just in case, keep in mind that the mass of the cartridge is added to the effective mass of the tonearm. Since most low compliance cartridges are heavier than most high com... | |
| Technics SL-23 TT opinions.. mated with Denon DL-103? I have very successfully run an Acutex cartridge, with stated compliance of 42, in a Fidelity Research FR64S (high mass) tonearm using a 10g headshell. (The original FR64S headshells were much heavier and only added further to the high effective ... | |
| Why not use a non-contact stylus on a turntable? No. We're not talking about "survival". The vinyl medium has a life of its own for many, many reasons, not all of them rational but most of them compelling to those of us who pursue the art, and so far sustaining. Meantime, it seemed to me that ... | |
| Technics SL-23 TT opinions.. mated with Denon DL-103? It’s a simple matter to turn a low or medium mass tonearm into a high mass one; just add weight at the headshell. For $150 it’s worth a shot. I would not be intimidated by the apparent mismatch between a 12g tonearm and a Denon DL103. If after add... | |
| Why not use a non-contact stylus on a turntable? A product of any one of the companies you cite might well be used to create a novel type of phono cartridge but can you say how one would read the information in the grooves without contacting the surface? That’s the crux of your issue, is it not?... | |
| Forever turntable under $2000 Sleepwalker, besides the fact that every other bit of personal opinion you dispensed is debatable, name one good vintage DD with spring suspension, I can only think of Sony and the Pioneer Exclusive P3 Which has a very elaborate suspension and cos... | |
| Forever turntable under $2000 Better in every way. | |
| Forever turntable under $2000 Technics SL1200GR or for even less money, under $1000 if you're lucky,vintage Denon DP80. | |
| Why do cartridge manufacturers give a range for VTF? But after you set static VTF, in actual use the cantilever is moving constantly. How much is to some degree affected by tonearm inertia. So there is no one exact correct value for VTF. Also no two samples of any cartridge are exactly alike in term... | |
| Why not use a non-contact stylus on a turntable? Greg, I think you levitated before posting. You can come back down to earth now. No free lunch, and no condescension needed. | |
| Importance of power cable for Turntable? bdp, You wrote, "@nyev, remember, the difference heard between two power cords (or any other component) is highly dependent on the resolving power and transparency of the entire system."This is a paradoxical statement. It is true in one way but i... | |
| Phono stage recommendations In fact, it probably can only be used with low output moving coil cartridges. Because the internal resistance of the cartridge driving the current driven phono stage needs to be very low, for example, 10 ohms or less for the very best result. |