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| belt ? or Dental Floss for turntable The problem with floss or any other string drive belt is the knot. Belt drive aficionados apparently believe that the knot creates problems as it passes over the pulley or the circumference of the platter. I have seen whole threads devoted to how ... | |
| Sony PS-X9 DSA phono.... Very nice unit. I had the benefit of an in-home demo courtesy of the designer, who is quite a nice chap. He couldn't wean me from tubes, but these days I have a more open mind. Good choice. | |
| Does removing anti-skating really improve sound? Mijo, No.I was going to leave it at that, but let me take your statements in reverse order:"Tracking angle error has very little to do with it as long as the arm is set up correctly. It is all about friction and offset angle and offset angle is fi... | |
| Hana ML compared to other high end cartridges My opinion is biased, because I have owned two Gliders (I and II versions) and was underwhelmed by both. This and other experience leads me to believe that LOMC cartridges or MM/MI cartridges are generally to be preferred over HOMC cartridges lik... | |
| Does removing anti-skating really improve sound? Since kinetic friction (the force of friction between two moving objects) is only a function of the normal force (the force vector that is perpendicular to the contact surfaces of the two objects) and the coeffecient of friction (mu) between the t... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Chak, Not for a minute would I challenge your or Harold's knowledge about the Glanz and Astatic cartridges; I have never owned any sample of either brand. But I do have two comments: (1) I have said this before, so sorry for sounding like "a bro... | |
| Does removing anti-skating really improve sound? The TP does have that damping trough near the pivot. Why would that effect the skating force? | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Chak, With regard to your last email about Paypal requirements, I guess you are correct that one is not compelled to attach a checking account to the Paypal account. (It’s been quite a while, so I don’t remember for sure, but I have no reason to d... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? What I like about Clearthink is that he always gives 3 choices of nouns, gerunds, or participles. | |
| ADC 26 BEST PRITCHARD CARTRIDGE EVER? or BEST CARTRIDGE EVER? Still, his results with the FR 64S would interest me, as a comparison between the Reed tonearm and the FR 64S with whatever headshell.. | |
| ADC 26 BEST PRITCHARD CARTRIDGE EVER? or BEST CARTRIDGE EVER? Halcro, with regard to your message to Chakster I think I read that Chakster uses a Reed 3P tonearm, 12 inches in length, made of Cocobolo. He has apparently mounted more than one high compliance cartridge on that tonearm which would have an eff... | |
| Does removing anti-skating really improve sound? Chakster, probably you shouldn’t disseminate the idea that VTF should equal AS. For two reasons: first, most AS devices are imprecise as to the amount of AS at any particular set point, and second, because many users including me have found that i... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Raul, it often takes longer to receive goods from Canada than from Russia, China, or japan, here in the northeast US. And nearly every time there’s a hangup with customs, either theirs or ours. For that reason I don’t do business with Parts Connex... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? When I first used Paypal, and I noted they want users to link Paypal accounts to personal checking accounts, I actually opened a special checking account at my bank for linking to Paypal. I keep very little money in that account, because I saw ri... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? I've related this story many times, but here goes....I bought a tonearm (from a seller in NYC) and paid via Paypal using my credit card. The tonearm was in bad shape and missing parts. The seller was evasive, to put it as nicely as possible. I ... |