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| Recommended Test Records Why wouldn’t the smartractor be compatible with FR? | |
| FR66s vs Ikeda IT-407 CR tonearms Dertonearm’s protractors are based on the Dennesen, with many important improvements that permit much more accurate alignment. | |
| The urge to tinker is awash. What TT might better mine and why? Why is direct drive incompatible with an air bearing? Are you aware of a few of the vintage direct drive turntables that use magnetic levitation so that the vertical bearing is not doing much weight bearing.? | |
| Pheonix Engineering Road Runner cleeds, What in your opinion are the "very best" belt drives? For me, the very best belt drive turntables cost at least $25,000, new. Once you get up to that price point and above, you can buy some nice BD machines. I have less than that tied up... | |
| Pheonix Engineering Road Runner I apologize to anyone if I sound vitriolic. But one more thing about belt drive aficionados does irk me. That is, they have no problem claiming they can hear the servomechanism of a direct drive turntable hunting, yet most are eager to acquire a ... | |
| Pheonix Engineering Road Runner Nor can I (imagine a return to BD).Nor do I hear any “veil” coloration or “hunting”, once the plinth is made proper for the device. This is with serviced and calibrated DD tables at quality level DP80 and up. (SP10 Mk3, Kenwood L07D, Victor TT101.... | |
| The urge to tinker is awash. What TT might better mine and why? Uber, My only "Denon" experience is with the DP80, the best they made for home use. Second only to the DP100 and DP308, which are both megabuck items these days. I would shoot for a DP75 or DP80, if I were you. The cost is only a few hundred bu... | |
| The nightmare of the cartridge buyer... I don't recall seeing any Benz cartridges on sale in Tokyo, as of last June. Or any time before that, either. But since I wasn't actually looking for a Benz, it could have escaped my notice. | |
| The Cartridge and Stylus makes a big difference. LPS is supposed to be their best effort, according to those who have heard it. I heard it at a friend's house, was not overwhelmed, but I have never been a big fan of Benz cartridges. He dumped it in favor of the latest version of the ZYX Univer... | |
| The Cartridge and Stylus makes a big difference. "the cartridge and the most importantly, the stylus has a lot to do with good sound."Why is that a revelation? I take it more as a given. | |
| The urge to tinker is awash. What TT might better mine and why? As the owner of a much modified Lenco and four high quality DD turntables, and having owned a Notts Hyperspace before embarking on my odyssey with idler- and direct-drive, I feel confident in saying that any top notch vintage DD or any well develo... | |
| The nightmare of the cartridge buyer... Buying cartridges in Japan:Boys, I travel to Tokyo frequently and when there I haunt audio salons in my spare time. You will never see a Lyra cartridge overtly for sale in Tokyo. Likewise for Koetsu, maybe excepting their lowest cost models. If yo... | |
| Tonearms: Ripoff? The joke's on me. I posted on the wrong thread, in my comment on buying cartridges in Japan. Davey, however, found me. This tonearm thread is just as annoying. | |
| JVC tt-101 repair Lack of torque may be a sign it needs calibration, which is not a big deal if you can find someone who knows how to do it. Before that, though, the electrolytic capacitors should be evaluated and probably most of them need replacing. Failure of ... | |
| Tonearms: Ripoff? That’s mail order. |