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| Give and Take Vandersteen is a good company all around, and the 5 is a very nice sounding speaker. One of a few multi-driver dynamic speakers that I can listen to for prolonged periods. It seems you've correctly identified the problem and were therefore smart... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Best groove, I did not realize you live in Italy. (Lucky for you, by the way.) I don’t know about cost of round-trip shipping to JP in New York City, but I do know that his repair work is very reasonable in cost, surprisingly so in relation to his... | |
| Yamaha GT 2000 vs new SL Need advice. I’ve only owned the Mk2, and I’ve compared it on the same system to a Mk3 and a Denon DP80. To my ears, the Mk3 was a very clear winner vs the other two, and the DP80 nosed out the SP10 MK2. I’ve since acquired experience with two more DD’s, These... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? As regards JP and the TT101, I can only report that my TT101 had an intermittent glitch that persisted for the first 3-4 years of my ownership, even after replacing all electrolytic capacitors. (I got it cheap, because it was "broken".) The diagno... | |
| Yamaha GT 2000 vs new SL Need advice. The GT2000 has already lasted ~30 years. Why would it not last another 30 years with proper care and use? Perhaps the bearing will need attention eventually, if it doesn’t already need it, but otherwise....I do advocate going through the GT2000 th... | |
| VPI Analogue Drive System cleeds, Do you dispute what I actually wrote, in essence, that you can set platter speed with the SDS or the Walker? I did neglect to mention that the motor should be of the AC synchronous type, but that wasn't really the question. Most turntab... | |
| VPI Analogue Drive System melm is correct about the Sutherland. It's a record weight with a strobe built into it. The only commercially available add-on device that can really "control" the speed of a belt- or idler-drive turntable is/was the Phoenix Engineering Falcon o... | |
| Yamaha GT 2000 vs new SL Need advice. Based on specifications only, these are two very comparable turntables, both with coreless motors that I prefer.In my opinion, if you have your GT2000 fully restored electronically and then calibrated by one of the rare breed that can do it right,... | |
| Linear tracking vs. Pivoted tracking tone arms. RJM, There are adapters to convert a P-mount tonearm to use non-Pmount cartridges. Usually, they are inexpensive. Check with Sound Smith for a good one. eBay for a cheap one. | |
| High mass vs Low Mass Turntables - Sound difference? 13blm, I like to find consensus, but maybe in fact we don't agree. All that goo provides dampening mainly, and probably some friction too, but I think the WT claim for very low friction (but not no friction) may be accurate. My point was that in... | |
| High mass vs Low Mass Turntables - Sound difference? 10timps, For decades I have listened to the oft repeated claims of Well Tempered philes to the effect that the tonearm has "no bearing". To this claim, I put the question, "Does the arm pivot?" The answer is yes it does. Therefore it must have a... | |
| When is it time to consider adding a SUT? Raul and I are more often than not on opposite sides of controversies like this one. However, in this case, we are on the same page. On the other hand, I could well imagine that a tube phono stage with marginal gain when matched to a particular L... | |
| Klyne 7PX question Nandric, How do you like the Klyne in comparison to your other high end solid state phono stage? I find my tweaked 6LX to be first rate as a linestage and therefore great when coupled with one of my preferred tube phono stages. But as a stand alo... | |
| why do some turntables have multiple tonearms? Interesting to note that this thread lay dormant for seven years. Maybe because the possible responses are so obvious. The OP's question is almost in the nature of a troll. Anyway, my response is "Duh!". | |
| Pani ... New ART-9 up and running ... Or add a resistance in parallel with the 300K resistor that would bring the net resistance down to 100K. 150K ohms would do it. |