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May 22, 2018	NAME SOME RARE AUDIO ITEMS THAT DID NOT TAKE OFF BUT SHOULD HAVE & WHY.HERE'S MY LIST The inert gas (heavier or lighter than air would seem to me to be irrelevant) permits the use of higher bias voltages on the panels and closer spacing between mylar and stators with less danger of arc-ing, but these gains, in my opinion, did not o...
May 22, 2018	Soundsmith Optimized Contour Contact Line Stylus for Rebuild To add to the positive sentiment, I had the OCL stylus with Ruby cantilever installed on my Grace Ruby, so the only thing different from original is the shape of the stylus tip (elliptical vs OCL). I also own a second Grace Ruby still with its OE...
May 22, 2018	NAME SOME RARE AUDIO ITEMS THAT DID NOT TAKE OFF BUT SHOULD HAVE & WHY.HERE'S MY LIST Servocharge, Your moniker suggests you are a big fan of Acoustat direct-drive speakers, since the Direct Drive amplifiers were referred to as "Servocharge" amplifiers. Thank you for "amplifying" on my post. I did not know that the model X was suc...
May 22, 2018	NAME SOME RARE AUDIO ITEMS THAT DID NOT TAKE OFF BUT SHOULD HAVE & WHY.HERE'S MY LIST Mr Wright may have been a genius, but the DW speakers always sounded to me like the music was trapped inside the gas bag struggling to get out. And high power was required. And the bag was forever leaky. Ihave no problem understanding why the Dayt...
May 20, 2018	Phono (0.1- 0.22mV+) or step up for LOMC? Kora, I have no doubt that your Dynaudios may sound "better" compared to some unknown comparator, when fed from your balanced equipment, whatever it is you're using, but the speakers per se are not sensitive to the nature of the signal in terms of...
May 20, 2018	Phono (0.1- 0.22mV+) or step up for LOMC? Korakotta, You are being pulled in all possible directions by conflicting advice from 2 or 3 of the main guys who hang around this forum. I would say there are no "wrong" answers to your questions among the myriad of responses, just opinions. Ba...
May 20, 2018	Cartridge Loading- Low output M/C In my experience, a very low resistive load, which puts a correspondingly heavy load on the cartridge, acts like a tone control, which is to say that as you approach the internal resistance of the cartridge itself, the treble is rolled off progres...
May 19, 2018	BaerWald vs VPI setup protractors melm, I wish that HW would get on this thread and confirm or modify your interpretation of what he supposedly prefers in terms of cartridge alignment. Because your description of his preference doesn't make complete sense. If one wants only a si...
May 19, 2018	NAME SOME RARE AUDIO ITEMS THAT DID NOT TAKE OFF BUT SHOULD HAVE & WHY.HERE'S MY LIST I thought this thread was about great vintage products that never quite made it in the marketplace. In that vein, I would add the acoustat10 electrostatic speaker that was direct drive. I heard it once in an audio store. It probably failed as a p...
May 18, 2018	JVC tt-101 repair Totem, No insult intended to you, but it sometimes irks me that people make authoritative statements that tend to mislead the OP. Like Gary inferred, the QL10 was a package that included a plinth (insert model name here), the TT101 chassis, and u...
May 18, 2018	Theory behind well tempered tonearm? Dang, You are right to wonder about the WT tonearm. It is said to have no bearing and hence zero bearing friction. But of course, it DOES have a bearing in the strict definition of the term; otherwise it could not pivot. As you mentioned, the "...
May 16, 2018	BaerWald vs VPI setup protractors melm, I give up. Re-read my last 3 posts. Or don't. Invictus, Lofgren A = Baerwald. So, what is your opinion now?
May 16, 2018	BaerWald vs VPI setup protractors melm, You seem determined to find something to disagree with, no matter what I write. Yes, I did know that the UNI and Smartie are based on the Dennesen. Was it necessary for me to say that in the context of the point I was trying to make? I di...
May 16, 2018	NAME SOME RARE AUDIO ITEMS THAT DID NOT TAKE OFF BUT SHOULD HAVE & WHY.HERE'S MY LIST trelja, In the early 1970s, I was beginning my quest for sonic Nirvana as a penniless medical student living in NYC. On weekend days, I often wandered down to Lyric Hi-Fi on Lexington Ave, to hear what they had to show off, including the IMF Moni...
May 16, 2018	BaerWald vs VPI setup protractors Melm, You and cleeds certainly are a judgmental pair. But also, your reading comprehension is not up to snuff. Where did I say that a SMARTractor cannot be as good as an arc protractor? The answer is: nowhere did I say or write that. What I did sa...