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| Suspensions on turntable...really effective? Dear Ct0517, To answer your question, I have two systems. In both cases, the drivers are based on electro-static principle. In one case, yes, the ESLs are driven by OTL amplifiers that do generate a lot of heat, but never enough to raise the roo... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Chakster, The TT801 incorporates a platter that is perforated and lined with a rubber gasket to facilitate vacuum hold-down. To generate the vacuum, you also got a pump housed in a separate external (large) wood-veneered chassis. Like Halcro sai... | |
| Do you think audiophiles are the most gullible hobbyists I am thinking of HL Mencken, who said, "Nobody every went broke under-estimating the intelligence of the American public". Or of WC Fields, who said, "Never give a sucker an even break."I guess we audiophiles are no worse than any other devout ho... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Guys, Do what you want. I'll love you anyway, even Halcro. By the way, I have never tried jumping off my roof, but I have a fairly strong hypothesis regarding the outcome of doing so and therefore, I won't try it. (That's an exaggeration of cou... | |
| ARE YOU A " TRUE EXPERT AUDIOPHILE " ( T E A ) ??? In the field of medicine, the tongue in cheek definition of an "Expert" or "Specialist" is "someone who knows more and more about less and less, until he knows everything about nothing".Raul, I definitely have no doubts about defining myself as a ... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Fleib, The debate between Halcro and I was never ending and fruitless, so I abandoned it, probably to the relief of several. I would submit that you WANT the tonearm and bearing to be equally affected by outside disturbances of all kinds, so as t... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Fleib, While you are thinking of copying the material used by Kenwood, note also that they never used an outboard pod; their engineers saw the value in firmly coupling the tonearm mount to the tt bearing assembly and motor. Mimicking their approa... | |
| ARE YOU A " TRUE EXPERT AUDIOPHILE " ( T E A ) ??? First, I'd say that one can be an "audiophile" without having attained the status of a TEA. Second, I would define the term "audiophile" as "a music lover who got side-tracked by a parallel obsession with the reproduction of music by electronic m... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? And Dover, you probably should consider changing the electrolytics in the drive system of your Final Audio TT. Forty years is challenging the upper limit of electrolytic life, albeit if you indeed do use it "every day", that would tend to prolong... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Henry, I think you meant "moot". The new SL1200 is very intriguing in that it seems to use a coreless motor, rather than the typical Technics iron core motor. (All Technics DDs, from the SL1200 to the SP10 Mk3, used iron core motors, albeit the o... | |
| Suspensions on turntable...really effective? GK, Gases are compressible too. Air is a mixture of gases; would it be so wrong to think of air as a gas? If so, are the physics of compressing a gas the same as compressing a liquid? Which is to say, do liquids obey Charles' and Boyle's Laws? ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dover, For once, we don't really disagree. I did not mean to infer that I don't "hear" differences among wires; I do. I was only pointing out that there is also evidence that the nature of the coiled wires in a transducer can make an audible diffe... | |
| Suspensions on turntable...really effective? Dear Ct, What GK was referring to regarding the tendency of magnets oriented such that like poles are facing each other to want to slide sideways, around rather than toward each other, is indeed happening in your Verdier turntable. Only the matin... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Hi guys, I am trying to figure out what is the current controversy in which Raul and others are embroiled, so I can post my own equally subjective opinion. Since I am not exactly sure about the argument (using this term in a legal way and not to ... | |
| Suspensions on turntable...really effective? With all due respect to the OP, the question posed is a bad one from a scientific point of view; it cannot be answered simply or with a simple experiment. The responses that go in all possible directions so far are consistent with that fact. The... |