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| Vinyl heresy-overhang induced distortion is not that important Raul, my Beveridge system is mostly solid state. The Manley Steelhead is a hybrid. The Beveridge amplifiers contain active solid state crossovers and the amplification is entirely solid state. Only the output stage uses tubes, a necessity for dire... | |
| Vinyl heresy-overhang induced distortion is not that important My disenchantment with the religion of very precise alignment took place quite by accident. I had my Ortofon MC2000 in a headshell that had been aligned for the tonearm on my Kenwood L07D turntable. The MC2000 did not work well in that system du... | |
| Vinyl heresy-overhang induced distortion is not that important Surprisingly, perhaps to you, I will be the 3rd person to find some truth in what you say. But keep in mind also that as little as 2mm of error off perfect alignment (conforming to one of the standard algorithms) can result in NO null points on th... | |
| Sony PS-X9 I have never seen one that was actually for sale in the here and now. I have seen listings that "ended" months or years before I found them. I have to think, though, that one could find it for less than 5-figures. I would shop in Tokyo or Hong ... | |
| Linear tracking turntables, whatever happened? And Harold, Whether you like it or not, there is no such thing as "friction-less" in the real world. Ergo, if the groove is guiding the stylus tip, there is a side force generated at the stylus due to friction at the junction (and the mass) betwe... | |
| Linear tracking turntables, whatever happened? testpilot, Thanks for supplying the name of that company, Bergmann. If you re-read my post, you will see that I mentioned first that there was one German company I could not name, and second that I thought Brinkmann might also make an all-in-one ... | |
| If you love the Ortofon 2M Black, you'll really love...... (help me upgrade) Chakster, I am currently in mad passionate love with the Ortofon MC2000. However, it only works for me (with no SUT) because of the very low input sensitivity of the Beveridge direct-drive amplifiers. By this I mean that the amplifiers seem to req... | |
| Linear tracking turntables, whatever happened? Ct, In the absence of any friction at the pivot point, yes there is no need for any external force to move the arm wand/cartridge across the LP surface. However, in the real world, there is never zero friction. Thus we first had the Rabco SL8, r... | |
| Sony PS-X9 If you're referring to replacement of the tonearm mount, that's neither here nor there, as regards the "goodness" of a PS-X9. I do think JP likes his very much, however, at least on the technical level. Personally, among the classic Japanese dir... | |
| Cartridge Upgrade ...AT ART-9? There is no anti-skating to adjust in a straight line tracking tonearm. So that per se should not be the problem or a cause of distortion in the left channel. What I am wondering about is whether you are having some friction in the bearing of the... | |
| If you love the Ortofon 2M Black, you'll really love...... (help me upgrade) One thing is for sure, while I am certain it is a very fine product, there is no way that the 2M black is the finest cartridge ever made in history. So you can start from that. After that, it would be a matter of your opinion. Perhaps you might w... | |
| Linear tracking turntables, whatever happened? First of all, what makes you say that the idea of linear tracking is dead? While there are not many all in one linear tracking turn tables on the market these days, there are still several high-quality linear tracking tonearms available. And as s... | |
| Sony PS-X9 True that. I’ve only ever seen it in photos. JP Jones owns one I think. Perhaps he has an informed opinion. | |
| Sony PS-X9 As a person who owns several rare top-of-the-line direct drive turntable‘s, I am not at all sure that $13,000 is the right price for the PSX9. That is for you to decide. However, I can say that I paid about half that much for an NOS technics SP 1... | |
| AIR TIGHT PC-7 with Shindo preamp. I should have mentioned it the first time, but the only other missing piece of information is the turns ratio of the SUT. I am guessing it might be as low as 1:5, which means that 1mV turns into 5mV at the secondaries, similar to the output of an... |