lewm
Responses from lewm
| Tonearm mount on the plinth or on Pillar ? Raul, You are conflating opinion with fact. The fact that you listened to your turntable and your tonearms in a variety of set-ups, and by your own admission made no measurements but merely judged the various configurations subjectively, only add... | |
| Tonearm mount on the plinth or on Pillar ? It's remarkable how durable is this controversy over separate vs linked and how vehement are the opinions, one way or the other. Pryso and Chris, for me, bolting the outboard arm pod to the plinth fits into my philosophy. Fleib, your statement:... | |
| Tonearm mount on the plinth or on Pillar ? Chakster, that Toho stuff looks very nice. Do you know anything about cost and who sells it? | |
| Tonearm mount on the plinth or on Pillar ? No thanks, Raul.This is not to say you and Halcro are "wrong". Really, really; I don't care. I am sure that your system, and Henry's system too, are wonderful. Both of your systems differ from mine in very many ways, other than turntable/tonear... | |
| Tonearm mount on the plinth or on Pillar ? Moonglum, It's the tonearm bearing that must be firmly coupled to the turntable bearing. Yes, some tonearm bearings have more or less "play" with respect to the arm wand/headshell/cartridge, but at least there should be no wiggle room between the ... | |
| Tonearm mount on the plinth or on Pillar ? There is a long thread on this subject started by Halcro, in the context of which he refers to the idea of separating arm pod and plinth, which he favors, as "Copernican". I vigorously disagree with him; I agree with Ralph (Atma-sphere) that the ... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? I got riled up because I could perceive no "opinion" in the context of our first post. In fact, I could perceive no point of view at all except to point out the fact that Quartz is an organic material. Anyway, I do apologize for my tone. I may ... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Frank,What’s your point?The weekend that men landed on the moon, in 1969, my then wife and I were on the way to Martha’s Vineyard for a vacation. We had stopped in New Haven to visit my grandmother, and my wife would not leave until she could find... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Belt drive? We don' need no stinkin' belt drive! | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Peter, That would be a very low average price for any Mk3 that is in decent cosmetic and electrical shape. Someone got a good deal. Fully done Mk3's in a quality plinth have sold for more than $12K. I paid more than $5K for mine with no plinth,... | |
| Unipivot vs Linear Tracking AL, The operative word in your first sentence is "theoretically". Yes, an SL tonearm is theoretically perfect, but it is never actually perfect, which is one reason why the SL type does not completely dominate the high end of the market. The othe... | |
| turntable speed control Melm and cleeds, My apologies. I was to some degree playing for laughs.Anyone tired of fiddling with belts and belt tension might want to consider any of several vintage Japanese direct-drive turntables, the creme de la creme, not the bargain bas... | |
| Anti skate. I think something's wrong mmakshak, In your post of 4-15, I am not sure what you are referring to. I took no issue with anything PL said about stylus wear. I only noted that his brief reference to headshell offset angle as being THE cause of skating force is not quite ac... | |
| Anti skate. I think something's wrong I am curious about a long length, underhung tonearm. None seem to exist, yet it would appear to be an interesting option, curing one of the problems with the available underhung tonearms (they tend to be short in length which increases the tracki... | |
| Has anyone recently had any slow response with Sound-Smith repairs There is another long thread on this topic. Turns out Peter Ledermann has been dealing with major illness in his family, and he is the one and only one who can sign off on a rebuild. This seems to have slowed them down a bit. Based on the testimon... |