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| Micro RX 5000 Renaissance? Tom, I respect your knowledge and your opinions, but you cannot have it both ways with respect to others' opinions. Do you believe that null points are LESS important than platter mass? And when it comes to platter mass, is more always better? W... | |
| Micro RX 5000 Renaissance? AMG56, Thanks. I have learned something. The DDX1500 looks like a typical belt-drive M-S, from the view shown in the VE photo, but apparently with no need for the belt. I like it. I heretofore thought that the DDX1000 and later the DQX1000 wer... | |
| Micro RX 5000 Renaissance? The DDX (which is direct-drive) is a totally different animal from the massive M-S belt-drive turntables, one of which carries the "1500" numeric designation (RX1500, or some other alphabetical prefix depending upon price point). In fact, isn't t... | |
| Micro RX 5000 Renaissance? Raul, without commenting on most of what you wrote, I would only say that I think you’re wrong about the price of the NVS turn table. I think most of these micro seiki copies are less expensive than the NVS, which I think is about $40,000. Of cou... | |
| Micro RX 5000 Renaissance? I'm a little confused by the fuss over the Chinese business practices, since the M-S copies seem to come from Germany or Austria. Anyway, the new copy of the RX5000 seems to retain one feature of the original that has been criticized: apparently ... | |
| Micro RX 5000 Renaissance? Errr... Are the "Chinese" the only ethnic group that ever made a copy of anything? Sixty years or more ago, the Japanese were derided for doing the same. Since then, we've come to appreciate their homegrown skills and the quality of their prod... | |
| Micro RX 5000 Renaissance? The one URL you did provide takes me to a site written in a Germanic language, and none of those URLs go anywhere interesting. Can you provide reference to actual photos of the turntables to which you refer?The "technology" of a belt drive is qui... | |
| Outer ring - who uses and what are your findings Systems that rely upon a center clamp or weight, such as the SME one, certainly are superior to doing nothing, but if the LP is truly warped in a nasty way, you cannot flatten the outer edge of the LP reliably just by clamping it at its center, no... | |
| Technics Sp10 Mk2 vs SL-1200G - I finally did an A/B Stalker, know thyself. | |
| Parasound JC 3+ Phono Preamp Hum Separate the AC cords from the ICs first, then we'll talk. If you could manage it even for experimental purposes, for example by bringing power via a long extension cord that would permit you to re-route your AC cords so they don't have to go thr... | |
| Technics Sp10 Mk2 vs SL-1200G - I finally did an A/B Or if there have been 70,000 boutique fuses sold (which data would be very hard to get hold of since there are so many different vendors of so many different fuses), we have no way to know whether a given buyer was happy with his purchase or heard... | |
| Outer ring - who uses and what are your findings I have one for my Kenwood L07D. I don't routinely use it, but when I did use it, I placed it directly on the platter edge, UNDER the lip of the LP, so that I didn't have to remove the ring every time I played another LP, with the attendant risk t... | |
| Technics Sp10 Mk2 vs SL-1200G - I finally did an A/B Actually, the flaw in my own position is that I did hear a difference between fuses, and the cheap fuse sounded better than the boutique fuse. I got it backwards according to gospel, but those are the facts. What is more important is that five o... | |
| Technics Sp10 Mk2 vs SL-1200G - I finally did an A/B I don't think this is the place for this tired debate to be rehashed. I will only say that I completely agree with Raul when he describes the very powerful effect of listener bias, especially the bias that is there when one has spent hundreds of ... | |
| Parasound JC 3+ Phono Preamp Hum You had hum with both the old phono and the new JC3+. You say you can do nothing about the fact that power cables run in parallel with audio cables in your set-up. In my opinion, that's the first thing you must rectify before you assess any othe... |