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| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Henry (Halcro) mentions the $30,000-VPI DD turntable, which seems to have come and perhaps gone from the market, like a will o' the wisp. I am guessing that VPI will still build one for a buyer, but they have certainly stopped flogging it, prefer... | |
| Looking to upgrade from a Clearaudio Ambient (garrard 301 vs technics sp10?) I think 5 million dollars is a bit too much, but the Bauer appears to be a plain looking yet original design. If you are getting the Ayre power supply with the Bauer, then this sounds like a good deal at $5K. This is coming from a direct-drive a... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Henry, I thought, "Bob's your uncle." Whistling Dixie is not such a good idea right now. | |
| Mono recordings - two questions... If we're talking great mono, I also recommend any of the LPs sold via "Sam's Club", which is based in France. I forget the name on the label of the production company. All the Chet Baker recordings are to die for, in mono. (Recorded during Bake... | |
| Questions about pairing Benz Micro cartridges with appropriate tonearms Thoroughfare, This is far from an exact science, even though using that fancy equation may suggest a level of trust, that trust is not warranted. 7.9Hz should be fine. The "lower limit" of 8Hz is suggested to keep the resonance out of the range ... | |
| Jico SAS vs Neo-SAS(S) vs Neo-SAS(R) Interesting data, Raul. The question would be whether, for example, a hardness score of 9.5-10 is meaningfully superior to that of corundum (9), and I think there are a very few cartridges with diamond cantilevers; are they among "the best" sound... | |
| Jico SAS vs Neo-SAS(S) vs Neo-SAS(R) If you owned a cartridge with a sapphire cantilever, then you also owned a cartridge with a ruby cantilever, until proven otherwise. In audio, they are one and the same material, I think. And so does Raul, for one other source. I am open to cons... | |
| Jico SAS vs Neo-SAS(S) vs Neo-SAS(R) I cannot say that I have a direct knowledge base on the subject of sapphire vs ruby, when it comes to cantilever materials, but on this I have to side with Raul; I heretofore thought that "sapphire" and "ruby" are descriptors for one and the same ... | |
| Questions about pairing Benz Micro cartridges with appropriate tonearms You need to know what exact model of SME 12-inch tonearm that you are about to buy. Is it the 3012, the 312, or there’s even a third possibility, I think? Then you need to look up the effective mass of that particular model tonearm. Then too, you ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Jessica, Tell us how you feel after 100 hours with your new stylus. After only 4 hours, speaking for myself only, I am usually still in love with anything new, if I've taken pains in advance with my purchasing decision. Subconscious bias is alwa... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Chakster, As Raul and I discussed further up the thread, a low output MM will tend to have lower inductance compared to a typical high output MM. Look up the specs for any typical HOMM and compare the inductance to that of a Stanton 980LZS, for ... | |
| ZYX Fuji vs. Lyra Helicon The fear is that a liquid stylus cleaner may contain a solvent which could migrate up the hollow tube and eventually, for example, weaken the bond between the stylus and the cantilever, assuming that bond is achieved by some sort of epoxy, which i... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? I feel you, but I am far too lazy to make the effort to transfer my approximately 2500 LPs to digital, even if I wanted badly to do so, which I don't. I have a very good CDP (Ayre C5Xe-mp), and I leave it at that. My CD/SACD collection is much s... | |
| Mono recordings - two questions... Thanks for the tip, OP. I will listen to that cut on the CC album in the next few days. Not that I really care, but it’s "LewM", not LewN. If you were searching for me, in order to communicate privately, that would make a difference, I suppose.I'v... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Aigenga, Do you mean to say that you will never want to play an LP again, even to generate a digital file of it? Seems that the latter option might cause you to want to hang on to your rig. But of course it's your decision to make. |