lewm
Responses from lewm
| Upcoming Technics SP-10R (100th Anniversary Model) My criterion for condition of a used LP is flawless surfaces on both sides, and they should reflect light pretty well, too. Early on in my purchasing of used LPs, I would tolerate a scratch here and there or other signs of wear, but that proved t... | |
| Upcoming Technics SP-10R (100th Anniversary Model) Chakster, I don't understand your predicament, quite. Over the course of time, some of the best quality LPs ever produced came to us from Europe. In the good old days, my buddy and I used to look long and hard over here (typically at the now def... | |
| Great Experience with Feickert Protractor Thanks, Jmcg. My bad. | |
| Upcoming Technics SP-10R (100th Anniversary Model) Inna, Yes, I grossly UNDERestimated the total cost for 100 really good tapes. Likewise, you horribly OVERestimated the cost for a like number of select LPs. I never ever pay more than $25 per, and by far most of my LP purchases are less than $10... | |
| Great Experience with Feickert Protractor Dear cetla, Whom are you addressing? Has someone offered to lend out a Feickert protractor for home trial? If you live in Wheaton, MD, you are welcome to come and take a look at mine, but I would rather not lend it out. I could show you how it ... | |
| Upcoming Technics SP-10R (100th Anniversary Model) Dear Nandric,Even if I never used the L07D, I would not part with it. However, I am not going to live forever, so perhaps you should become friends with my wife, who does not play LPs and whose mother lived to age 96. She will have a lot of stuff... | |
| Upcoming Technics SP-10R (100th Anniversary Model) Before now, an SP10 Mk3 complete and in good to excellent working condition would have been worth about $10K to $12K, sans any plinth. I think the introduction of the SP10R into the market place will drive the value of the Mk3 down below the 5-fi... | |
| Audio-Technica AT-ART9 phono cartridge Not surprising that an ART9 would completely crush a Grado MCZ. MCZ was noticeably inferior to Grado TLZ and XTZ, 30 years ago, to my ears in my system, of course. (I don't mean to sound snotty, but maybe I do. Sorry.) I still have the TLZ, bu... | |
| I have a Grace F9 Ruby and Signet TK 10ML on the way I have two Ruby cartridges. One still has its original elliptical stylus. The other one I purchased with no cantilever at all, at a suitably low price. (OEM stylus/cantilever carrier assembly was included but with no cantilever.) The cartridge bod... | |
| Great Experience with Feickert Protractor cleeds, Perhaps I misunderstand what you are trying to say in response to dang, but he is talking about turntables, not tonearms. In fact, there are at least 3 different "standards" for spindle diameter. As you might guess, it is critical for an... | |
| Dr. Feickert Protractor Raul, You equate tracking angle error with audible "distortion". I am skeptical that this is a valid assumption. (The key word is "audible".) If you are so sensitive to tracking angle error, why are you even bothering with pivoted tonearms? Yo... | |
| Dr. Feickert Protractor I am sorry to learn that your system is not accurate enough to allow you to perceive the obvious distortion that I heard when I set up the DV505 for Baerwald. I am joking, of course. But why would you say such a silly thing? Any alignment geometry... | |
| Dr. Feickert Protractor My one experience is with the Dynavector DV505, which is unique, as you know, in having two independent pivots, one for horizontal and one for vertical motion of the arm wand. The DV505 was designed for the DV alignment, which is very close to St... | |
| Dr. Feickert Protractor If you're concerned with only one tonearm, then I agree with Raul that the Mint LP protractor, which you have to order specifically for each tonearm and each different alignment algorithm you may want to try, is more cost-effective. However, if y... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? I am going to guess that you replaced the wire that was broken with that thin gauge green insulated wire, seen in the last photo at about 7 o'clock on the face of the PCB. |