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| What devices have you found useful when inspecting your stylii for cleanliness? If your SQ is only CD-like, you have a way to go. Hi Rez streaming is a legit alternative to vinyl, but, IMO, high quality vinyl has it all over RBCD. | |
| What devices have you found useful when inspecting your stylii for cleanliness? De nada. | |
| What devices have you found useful when inspecting your stylii for cleanliness? At least RB got what he expressly said he didn’t want, recommendations for how to clean not only styli but LPs too. | |
| What devices have you found useful when inspecting your stylii for cleanliness? RB wrote, "my current tone arm is a fixed head-shell design so I cannot easily get a good viewing angle - the arm does not tilt much." Do you really think one can inspect the rear of the stylus and the cantilever (which also can accumulate dirt a... | |
| What devices have you found useful when inspecting your stylii for cleanliness? And obviously a magnifier of some sort. Shop glasses with built in magnifying lenses work. But more mag power is better. Anyway you can’t possibly get a good look without dismounting the cartridge if tonearm has fixed headshell. | |
| Tonearm paralysis by analysis Raul’s advice is the best you’ve received. | |
| How To Control The Eager Beaver Larry, That is an interesting idea, but I don't get it. The force applied to the stylus/cantilever would be to counter the force of friction between stylus and groove, and here, with a tangential arm, we have a cantilever that is always tangent to... | |
| How To Control The Eager Beaver No, you are correct, RB, there should be no skating force with a tangential tracker. The only side force would be to overcome any friction in the carriage, and there is always some of that, which is why the best LT tonearms in my opinion float th... | |
| Tonearm paralysis by analysis Then you just want a new tonearm with a high effective mass. You've listed a few, except that with the Moerch, you need to specify one of the heavy arm wands, and with the Reed, you want the cocobolo or panzerholz arm wands. The other Reed wood o... | |
| Tonearm paralysis by analysis Add weight to the headshell of your perfectly good tonearm. I think a nickel weighs 5g, for example. That’s the 5 cent solution. | |
| Audio Desk cleaner.....still available? in my 30+ years owning the VPI 16.5 it has been dead nuts reliable, works well by direct comparison to a good US machine, is still in production, and is well supported by VPI. Unless one is burning to have a US RCM or wants the added convenience o... | |
| Recommendations for MM Phono ~ Tube or Solid State On the Black Swan, the capacitor loading switch on the right (per the photo on the website) is labeled in uF (microfarads). That means if you select 0.22, for example, you are loading the cartridge with 220,000 picofarads (10 to the -12 Farads). ... | |
| How To Control The Eager Beaver My only thought is that "just fine" is not quantitative. Most of us would say the same for our pivoted tonearms. Anyway, you raise an interesting question: what difference does it make tracking warps with a pivoted vs a tangential tonearm? Why w... | |
| Recommendations for MM Phono ~ Tube or Solid State Atmasphere, Since your MP1 is inherently a high gain phono section with no need for a SUT, when have you heard it with a SUT? I know there is an option to convert the dual differential cascode input stage into a simpler dual differential input sta... | |
| How To Control The Eager Beaver Have fun with that. The precise proper amount of AS will be different for different LPs and certainly even for different musical passages on any single LP. So, when you set it for Friday Night at SF, it may be correct for parts of that particular ... |