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| JVC MC1 Moving Coil Cartridge - Heritage? Thanks, Chakster. The author of that piece is a wise man, even when his English is translated from Japanese. His experiences as a general rule parallel my own. Which is why I am loathe to make definitive statements about anything. Related to Audio... | |
| I'm putting to rest worrying about sibilance Teo, so sorry. I must have woken up on the wrong side of the turntable. But many of your recommendations are “far out”, in my opinion. If you care to amplify, I’m curious. | |
| I'm putting to rest worrying about sibilance Teo, so are you saying that Teflon dielectric causes sibilance? Not to mention “magnetic” electrolytics and RCA jacks? I don’t even know where one could buy the latter two items; they virtually don’t exist.. And gain stages by definition cannot be... | |
| hi anbody have a wood record mat ? Rocky did you engineer a central depression to allow for the label area? What species of wood? Geoff’s point about warpage is a good one. | |
| Figuring Cartridge Compliance.. Help! Denon not “turn on”. Using voice messaging here. Sorry. | |
| Figuring Cartridge Compliance.. Help! I agree with Raul that you don’t have to go crazy with a perfect match for that cartridge. On the other hand I know a local guy who has one of the best sounding systems I have ever heard in my life who uses a homemade tonearm that from the looks ... | |
| hi anbody have a wood record mat ? The poor OP asked about a WOODEN record mat and so far I see not one relevant response.(Cork is not what he meant.) I’ve never seen or heard of a solid wood mat but it’s an interesting idea. Is there even a commercially made example? Perhaps the O... | |
| AT 1000 buying opportunity in the East I shopped for that cartridge in Tokyo exactly one year ago. The price in Tokyo is approximately the same as it is in the USA. Don’t waste your time. However I don’t know about Hong Kong or anywhere else in the world. I would not expect it to be l... | |
| Plinth ideas for DENON PD-80 DD turntable At the very least, get the TT101’s out of the garage. The moisture and changes in temperature and humidity that might occur in the garage would be bad news for the circuit boards in the TT101. Put them in a dry location with a stable room temperat... | |
| Plinth ideas for DENON PD-80 DD turntable I own both but cannot compare them, because different plinths, tonearms, and cartridges. And they are connected to two entirely different systems, one feeding Beveridge speakers (TT101) and one feeding Sound Lab 845PXs (DP80). And, the DP80 sits i... | |
| Ultrasonic cleaning with kirmuss and loss of high frequency details. Like I said here last week, the question of whether US cleaning harms LPs can be asked in a fairly scientific manner using test LPs that encode pure tones at known frequencies. There is no real need to guess or go on subjective impressions. Someo... | |
| Plinth ideas for DENON PD-80 DD turntable One other thing is being overlooked here. For a period of time I owned both an SP10 Mk2 and my DP80. I had both of them serviced by Bill Thalmann at Musical Technologies in Springfield, VA. (It's only about a 25 minute drive from my house in Bet... | |
| Do MC Cartridges Deteriorate over time The good news for you is that you have no way of knowing how it might have sounded 15 years ago. So, if it sounds good to you now, there is no use in worrying. And as others have implied, there are expectations that cartridges deteriorate even i... | |
| Question about background noise I sort of disagree; you can have a very black background during vinyl reproduction, when all the stars align properly. This is not to say there is NO noise. This is to say that the signal to noise ratio of the system from front to back can be su... | |
| Question about background noise The noise, or lack of noise, between cuts on an LP reveals any other source of noise other than the music, at the particular gain setting of the phono stage. Could be on the vinyl, could be the signal to noise ratio of your particular phono stage ... |