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| Tonearm paralysis by analysis Add weight to the headshell of your perfectly good tonearm. I think a nickel weighs 5g, for example. That’s the 5 cent solution. | |
| Audio Desk cleaner.....still available? in my 30+ years owning the VPI 16.5 it has been dead nuts reliable, works well by direct comparison to a good US machine, is still in production, and is well supported by VPI. Unless one is burning to have a US RCM or wants the added convenience o... | |
| Recommendations for MM Phono ~ Tube or Solid State On the Black Swan, the capacitor loading switch on the right (per the photo on the website) is labeled in uF (microfarads). That means if you select 0.22, for example, you are loading the cartridge with 220,000 picofarads (10 to the -12 Farads). ... | |
| How To Control The Eager Beaver My only thought is that "just fine" is not quantitative. Most of us would say the same for our pivoted tonearms. Anyway, you raise an interesting question: what difference does it make tracking warps with a pivoted vs a tangential tonearm? Why w... | |
| Recommendations for MM Phono ~ Tube or Solid State Atmasphere, Since your MP1 is inherently a high gain phono section with no need for a SUT, when have you heard it with a SUT? I know there is an option to convert the dual differential cascode input stage into a simpler dual differential input sta... | |
| How To Control The Eager Beaver Have fun with that. The precise proper amount of AS will be different for different LPs and certainly even for different musical passages on any single LP. So, when you set it for Friday Night at SF, it may be correct for parts of that particular ... | |
| How To Control The Eager Beaver Elliot, you meant to say that skating (not “antiskate”) occurs even on blank vinyl, but the magnitude and even the vector direction of the skating force are different when the stylus is tracing a groove. Nevertheless some do set AS using a blank a... | |
| Recommendations for MM Phono ~ Tube or Solid State Atmasphere, I know that Raul is not the engineer of the Essential phonopreamps, I never felt the need to point that out. But I think he is the motive force behind their existence and the design philosophy (dual mono, balanced circuit, very clean P... | |
| Recommendations for MM Phono ~ Tube or Solid State Raul, I never owned a Supex. I heard it at my neighbor’s house when he first bought it, probably in 1974-5. I was not impressed, and it was a few more decades before I ever bought an LOMC cartridge, after having experimented unhappily with HOMCs. ... | |
| Recommendations for MM Phono ~ Tube or Solid State dogberry, "I'm just a gal [guy] who can't say no", so I will acquiesce. I was going strictly on my musical memory of that show. Actually, this morning in the twilight of wakening, I wondered whether the lyric was "cowhand", rather than "cowman". ... | |
| Recommendations for MM Phono ~ Tube or Solid State Guys who favor SETs often use SUTs, in my experience. Maybe it's about the similar acronyms. Anyway, I apologize for questioning your logic. I started 50 years ago by realizing I love ESLs, then worked backward from the speakers to what amplifier... | |
| Recommendations for MM Phono ~ Tube or Solid State Never seen a Modwright phono stage, inside or outside. I am guessing you think it is more complex than an Aric MM stage, about which I also know nothing. | |
| What is the preferred cartrige mm or mc and why "MC cartridges have a lower moving mass than MM cartridges, which accounts for most of the attributes that I like over MM." This little tidbit or variations thereof is repeated over and over again, but where are any data to support it? It seems ... | |
| How To Control The Eager Beaver I agree with Larry in that I think the stylus is sliding on the raised lip. That plus too low a setting of VTF could result in the observed problem. But I would also point out that the skating force does pull the stylus inward toward the label, so... | |
| Recommendations for MM Phono ~ Tube or Solid State I think that's a direct quote from "Oklahoma", music by Rodgers and Hammerstein. |