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| Any new turntable brands we should pay attention to ? Almost none of these products, save the Technics and the Dohmann, bring anything new to the table except affordable pricing. Most of those that are affordably priced are concocted of MDF, perhaps with aluminum in the platter driven by a cheap mot... | |
| SL1200G GAE Arm Board If you are in the USA, then I can supply the name and contact information for a very skilled machinist with audiophile sympathies; he can make you anything you want out of metal. But maybe I am misunderstanding your question, which seems to be ab... | |
| Any new turntable brands we should pay attention to ? I guess it's too expensive to merit inclusion on this list, but my neighbor recently acquired a Dohmann Helix I turntable. Seems quite nice. Dohmann was a designer of the Continuum products, including the Caliburn, and you can see the family res... | |
| FR66s vs Ikeda IT-407 CR tonearms My post was just a general comment. Not at all aimed at you or anyone else specifically.I think there is plenty of room to discuss what topology sounds best and what insulation sounds best (of silver wire). (Litz vs stranded vs insulated strands... | |
| FR66s vs Ikeda IT-407 CR tonearms The whole business about whose silver wire might sound better seems to me to be silly. Unless we think that either Ikeda or Kondo or Dertonearm own silver mines. All of these entities must buy their silver wire from some company that makes wire. ... | |
| Will fine tune adjustments with protractor help with "brightness?" Knollbrent, There are probably hundreds of LPs that were created for testing and setting up audio systems. Many of them were made and marketed by Shure, the cartridge company. Audio Teknika also made several. I wouldn’t really know where to beg... | |
| Static electricity pulled the rubber mat right off the Turntable! Now take off all your clothes.i know it’s a bit awkward to do it for every LP. | |
| Will fine tune adjustments with protractor help with "brightness?" One thing I learned as a physician, even though I spent most of my professional life doing research, is to listen carefully to the patient's description of his illness. In this case, the OP is telling us that the character of the sound changes fr... | |
| Static electricity pulled the rubber mat right off the Turntable! Nick, do you, or does the OP, have a wool carpet underfoot? Leather-soled shoes? Very often, the static charge happens because of what the user brings up to the turntable (what he or she is standing on, what shoes he or she is wearing) during th... | |
| Static electricity pulled the rubber mat right off the Turntable! I guess my point was that even if the 0P is successful at reducing the humidity from 60-65% ambient to 45% in his house, 45% humidity is not particularly low. Certainly not low enough to account for the massive problem with static electricity. | |
| Static electricity pulled the rubber mat right off the Turntable! I would not feel comfortable about using anything on my LP is that I was expecting to be “removed by the cartridge after one or two plays”. Or similar words to that effect. There are certainly many other options that come before that seemingly dan... | |
| Will fine tune adjustments with protractor help with "brightness?" Because the character of the sound changes as the cartridge moves from outer to inner grooves, it is reasonable to think that his issue might be ameliorated if he uses a different alignment from that recommended by the factory. However, I also do... | |
| TIGER PAW "Tranquility" (Magnetic Bearing Repulsion...) Any Good? Davey, Is it correct to infer from your post that with the Tiger Paw mod, the belt drives the actual platter only indirectly, via the magnetic connection between the TP disc and the platter? This would be much like the Transrotor TMD option, I th... | |
| Dynavector cartridges, old and new Chakster, Thanks for digging up the old quote from Raul. It seems my recollection of his opinion was in error. You guys have stimulated me to mount up the 17D3 and compare it to my Audio Technica ART7. The two are in the same price range. In f... | |
| FR66s vs Ikeda IT-407 CR tonearms I wondered whether Syntax's post, from late 2014, was written before the advent of the UNItractor, designed and built by his colleague, Dertonearm. The UNI and the even later SMARTractor are in a way a homage to the Dennesen, so I was surprised t... |