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| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Shane, Always willing to take the P3 off your hands.... (To answer Henry's question, a man always needs "one more" turntable.)Henry, I am loving the ZYX UNI on the above described Mk3. All my LPs sound better than ever. Did you ever audition the U... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? I’ll take "...languid with happiness" from your dictionary. I love the L07D. Note that I wrote "more languid", compared to the Mk3, which is anything but languid. I was also trying to stay away from saying the L07D was "more musical". Before the... | |
| coupling or decoupling of vinyl to/ from platter While on the one hand, I do not disagree with anything Ralph (Atma-sphere) wrote on this subject, I wonder why there are so many vinylphiles who swear by one or another metal mat, most typically copper ones. I own an SAEC SS300 metal mat, which ... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? The Mk3 is king of pace and rhythm, not at the expense of sounding too "tight", for want of a better word. Originally, without the Krebs mod, I would say it did sound a little tight, compared to the L07D. Someone else might prefer the more langu... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Thanks, brf. | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Forgot to mention that I built a bearing damper exactly like Albert Porter's idea, into the cherry base of the above plinth. Albert uses a block of iron. I am leery of putting that much iron near the motor's rotor, which in the Mk3 is a gigantic... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Downunder, My Mk3 is mounted in a 70-lb slate slab, 2.5 inches thick. The slab is mated to a solid cherry base that is about the same size as the slate. I epoxy'd some threaded inserts into the slate and bolted the wood base into those, for good... | |
| Pani ... New ART-9 up and running ... Pani, I find the correlation between goodness of sound and price, when it comes to cartridges, to be unreliable at best, if not totally non-existent. Thus, if I find a cartridge that is "special", no matter what the cost, I would use it on the bes... | |
| Phono cable recommendations - high performance good value cable If a cable is picking up "interference" that indicates you need a cable with better shielding. There might be no other problem with the cable you are using besides lack of adequate shielding. However, if you really do have "hum" at high volumes,... | |
| Koetsu cartridges - what arms work? Thanks, Raul. I got the idea that Koetsu's in general have very low compliance from what I have read on the internet, always a dangerous way to gather information. I ran my Urushi in a Triplanar, which is medium mass; it "worked" fine, but I've ... | |
| Shunmook ebony weight owners Actually, Wolf, having a guitar or two well placed in one's listening room, not to mention also something as massive as a piano, could do a lot to "tune" the room. Surely, your system would sound "different" if you pulled out the piano. This mak... | |
| Turntable help Now that my original hypothesis does not seem to be correct, I would opt for what someone else already wrote: The position in the vertical dimension of the cue-ing lever just needs to be re-adjusted. No biggie. | |
| AudioTechnica ART 9 users - break in, VTF/VTA and loading questions Pani, Using a 1:12 SUT into a typical MM phono stage, typically bearing a 47K load resistor, would result in the cartridge "seeing" around 325 ohms. Not that there is anything wrong with that. But how do you achieve the stated resistive load of "... | |
| Turntable help Dear Phasecorrect,Upgrading your cartridge is always a fun thing to do, but I don't see how it addresses the issue that you originally raised. Perhaps you have something in mind that you haven't mentioned here. | |
| Koetsu cartridges - what arms work? It's not at all hard to believe that the 1200GAE is an "audiophile" turntable, and for the Koetsu, which has low compliance, you would use a tonearm with high effective mass. How high? I would say start at 12-15 gm and go up from there. Some ha... |