lewm
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| Real world life expectancy of a high end cartridge? It can be kept in the liquid phase when under high pressure, but I agree with your basic point as regards Stylast. | |
| advice for mono cartridge Chakster, To answer your questions:(1) I am not really sure your assumption about compliance applies to ALL true mono cartridges. The fact is that vertical compliance in a mono cartridge is irrelevant, since the motor does not respond to vertica... | |
| Why will no other turntable beat the EMT 927? Hi thuchan,are you still also using the TT101?if one is going to make a declarative statement about clearaudio vs 927, is it too much to ask that at least the cartridge should be held constant, as well as all downstream equipment? This is coming f... | |
| Real world life expectancy of a high end cartridge? Moreover to benjie’s comment, how does the suggested experiment “prove” that stylast is Freon? There are any number of liquids that evaporate without leaving a residue. I haven’t used stylast for several years. I was skeptical of the idea to use m... | |
| An evening with the Whest PS.30RDT Special Edition Hi Slim,Just reading your post. It's odd to me that no one pointed out the fact that even your unit (a few steps down from Whest's most costly) has an outboard supply, back when this thread was active in 2010-11. I haven't been to the Whest webs... | |
| Real world life expectancy of a high end cartridge? Elizabeth, Have you ever done a side by side comparison? One with Stylast and one without? Of course, you'd have to own two identical cartridges. | |
| advice for mono cartridge That’s valuable testimony. A dichotomy arises because if you switch cartridges then that brings into play the fact that you’re comparing two different cartridges. The mono cartridge might just be better than the stereo one. For each of us the outc... | |
| advice for mono cartridge If it's of any use to you, I bought a Shelter 501 Mono about a year ago. Although I don't use it much out of sheer laziness, with the mono mode switch available to me, it's darn good, cheaper than some of the Miyajima's, and I have yet to hear a ... | |
| advice for mono cartridge Stringreen, Have you ever listened to a mono cartridge (of either type), or does your preamplifier have a mono mode switch and have you used it? Because, after years of listening to mono LPs with stereo cartridges, I now would never think of doi... | |
| New Technics vs. old Sleepwalker, you mention that one difference between the SL1200 and the SL1700 is that in the latter unit one can access the pitch control with cover down. Do you actually listen to vinyl with the dust cover down? If so, we come from different pla... | |
| Why will no other turntable beat the EMT 927? Of course anyone can make any claim they want, but if there are multiple variables involved in a comparison of single items in a system then there is nothing further to discuss. This forum would become just a list of the preferences of geographica... | |
| Turntable Advice? Apparently my post of an hour or two ago never made it. What I said then was that the term “three phase DC synchronous motor” is an oxymoron, because DC has no phases by definition. DC motors that do operate off AC convert AC to DC within the bod... | |
| advice for mono cartridge On the Miyajima website there is some useful information on stylus tip dimensions vis the vintage of a mono LP. I don't remember it well enough to go out on a limb here, but I think I concluded that for "late" mono LPs, which is mostly what I own... | |
| New Technics vs. old Sleepwalker, As far as I can determine, the SL1700mk2 is one version of the old original SL1200, and even the SL1700 dates back to the early 1980s. I guess it is different from the original SL1200 and most of its descendants in that it offers sem... | |
| Turntable Advice? I believe we’re talking about 3 phase AC, not DC. The Phoenix design is for driving 3 phase AC. I think the old SOTA motor might be DC type. |