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| SAT 30K+$$ TONEARM: W O R T H T O H A V E I T ? Has anyone ever shown how tracking angle error really truly equates with distortion of the audio signal? So far as I know the custom is to calculate the audio signal distortion caused by tracking angle error, using an equation originally put forw... | |
| Bardo and 10.5 vs Stabi S and 4point 9 SKSOS. You owned a Bardo with speed stability issues? Surely that would’ve been an item you could send back to the manufacturer. That should never happen with any direct drive turntable. Some may be better than others, but none should have grossl... | |
| What phono pre am I looking for? If one wants to stick with solid state, and if one has money to spend, and since the OP wants at least two phono inputs, I highly recommend the DS Audio phono stages. I have heard them both in my house, in my system, and they are among the rare S... | |
| Foil damping tape as a tonearm tube wrap? celander, Regarding your proposed use of the damping tape with the London cartridge, if you think about the physics of the situation, is it not possible that by wrapping the tonearm wand, you are inhibiting its capacity to dissipate energy transmi... | |
| FR66s vs Ikeda IT-407 CR tonearms I think one reason for the differing mass data for the fr66s and other tonearms too is the dependence of effective mass upon headshell weight. Even FR headshells vary from one to another type. So if you use a much lighter non-FR headshell the effe... | |
| Highest detail cartridges I sometimes envy your level of absolute certainty about your cartridges and what you are hearing. I on the other hand am always a skeptic. My point about the grado was precisely its age since manufacture, not its hours of use. My TLZ, which used... | |
| Arche Headshell and Technics 1200G Why would it not "work"? The only question to consider is whether the cartridge compliance matches well with the weight differential between the Arche and the OEM headshell. I would imagine that the Arche is a bit on the heavy side, so would wor... | |
| Highest detail cartridges Chakster, Based on your own observations, it would seem that there is a dissociation between low "moving mass" and high levels of "detail retrieval", the latter being a very subjective judgement that requires a consensus among many listeners to be... | |
| Highest detail cartridges Chakster, I am not sure why you are so obsessed with stylus tip mass, which should really be termed "moving mass", to indicate the total mass whose inertia needs to be overcome in order to start a transient, but in order of class, moving iron cart... | |
| Dynavector DV20X2H or DV20X2L So, you must know, Rob. | |
| Sound from my turntable is veiled (like behind a curtain) Rob, The only Discwasher brush I know of is designed to clean LPs before play, not styli. Discwasher makes a solution to be used with that brush that does probably contain a low concentration of isoprop, but the OP seems to have used undiluted is... | |
| Sound from my turntable is veiled (like behind a curtain) Be very careful about putting pure alcohol directly onto your stylus. Alcohol may dissolve the glue that holds the stylus to the cantilever, and soon you will be playing LPs with a cantilever and no stylus. Styllast ,the company, makes products s... | |
| Lenco Turntable L75 question Ralph, In replacing the idler wheel, which aftermarket part do you prefer? My own Lenco was purchased NOS. Thus I have had no need to replace its idler wheel, and there are aspects of the available replacements that give me pause. Low mass woul... | |
| Harmon Kardon ST-7 with Rabco Tonearm "These are some of the most sought after turntables from that mid-70's era!" Really? If I remember correctly (and please do correct me if not), that turntable has a built-on version of the Rabco SL tonearm, only instead of the motor-drive pullin... | |
| Schitt turntable anyone? You could tell from that video that the Schiit is not as attractive as a Rega P3? The lighting and the photography were so poor that I wouldn't venture a guess, myself. But the Schiit does seem, based on verbal description, to be of a quality in... |