lewm
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| Why will no other turntable beat the EMT 927? Are you able to swap the phono stages, in order to pinpoint the source of the differences you hear? I am not at all surprised that the EMT927 per se would outperform the Clearaudio, assuming the EMT is in tip-top condition, but I would be surpris... | |
| Grace Level ll Both MC and MI types have lower moving mass than any MM, if that’s the holy grail in cartridge construction. Lately I’ve been listening to a B&O MMC1 that I bought several years ago in NOS condition. It has a hollow sapphire tube cantilever an... | |
| Where to go from XP-15? XP-17? XP-25? I have the highest respect for Nelson Pass and his products, but it seems to me that at this stage of the game (in reference to the evolution of solid state audio devices), any decent SS phono stage should already be "dead quiet", which is to say,... | |
| Why According to some Turntable extremists Pitch Control and Direct Drive is Sacrilege? That will only tell you which of those particular 3 you like best. It won't give you an answer that is broadly applicable overall, because there is no way to do that in a finite lifespan. That was my main point. Be sure to keep tonearm and cartr... | |
| Why According to some Turntable extremists Pitch Control and Direct Drive is Sacrilege? What matters is to listen to a wide variety of turntables of all types, carefully and for extended periods of time in one's own home on one's own carefully selected system, and thereby to decide what sounds best to one's own ears. That process in... | |
| SignalScope FFT Analyzer for Setting Azimuth Pitbull, There is disagreement even among the extreme cognoscenti about whether the goal should be equal crosstalk in both channels or best possible crosstalk in EACH channel, while disregarding any difference between the two channels. One thing ... | |
| Audiosilente idler wheel versus Artisan Fidelity idler wheel for a Garraed 401 Mozart, There’s got to be more to that story. Machining down the diameter of the idler would reduce platter speed. That could be compensated by increasing drive speed but would hardly suffice to improve dynamics. | |
| Arm interconnects choice??? I agree about the advantage of a direct connection from cartridge to phono input, but in practice, I do not hear a problem when using high-ish output cartridges. When you get to very low output MCs, I like to go direct.I definitely do not agree t... | |
| Audiosilente idler wheel versus Artisan Fidelity idler wheel for a Garraed 401 That's certainly the goal. What you observed implies that the motor can overcome any additional load that might be imposed by the higher mass idler wheel. (I intentionally used the word "might".) | |
| Audiosilente idler wheel versus Artisan Fidelity idler wheel for a Garraed 401 I wasn’t thinking that the heavier idler wheel would actually affect average platter speed. I was thinking that a lighter idler wheel would make the response time more rapid. By which I refer to the response to stylus drag or bearing friction or ... | |
| Audiosilente idler wheel versus Artisan Fidelity idler wheel for a Garraed 401 In theory, wouldn’t you want a low moment of inertia, so the motor doesn’t have to do work to move the idler, in addition to moving the platter ? If so, I would choose aluminum over steel. The idler should instantaneously transmit force to the pla... | |
| Why According to some Turntable extremists Pitch Control and Direct Drive is Sacrilege? Is Lenin still on display? Didn't Putie put him away somewhere? Chak would know. | |
| Should I keep the Turntable or sell it? Cartridges mate with tonearms, not with turntables. You can use any cartridge you like with any turntable, so long as the tonearm is a good match to the cartridge. And the matching only starts with determining the resonant frequency. Beyond tha... | |
| Why According to some Turntable extremists Pitch Control and Direct Drive is Sacrilege? It’s “mausoleum”. | |
| SignalScope FFT Analyzer for Setting Azimuth I use a now ancient Signet Cartridge Analyzer and the Shure test LP made to work with the Signet. I agree with Captain Winters; I don't see why you'd need to use FFT, but I guess your question is related to the fact that you already own the compu... |