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| Time to choose: Baerwald, Lofgren, Stevenson ? Sampsa (and Fleib), Just a few things:While it does appear from visual inspection that the headshell of the RS-A1 might rotate in order to maintain tangency to the groove, this actually does not happen, because the wires from the arm wand to the c... | |
| Using tube amp with electrostatic speakers. Arrrggghhh. Audioman, please read the earlier posts in this thread. You're preaching a certain kind of gospel put out by false industry prophets, but you're not speaking the truth. Think for yourself and do some reading, and most of all know th... | |
| If this sounds like YOUR Turntable story, please share your final chapter fjn, Do you perceive an internal contradiction in your lament? On the one hand you think there is something special about the WT, and on the other hand you also think it is the weak link. Can you say how these two positions are both tenable? I ... | |
| Using tube amp with electrostatic speakers. Bag, The ORIGINAL ML CLS was a match made in heaven for a tube amplifier; it was a nominal 16-ohm load. After I auditioned a pair in a store, I bought them immediately and loved them in my home system, although they were a bit bass shy. I relate... | |
| If this sounds like YOUR Turntable story, please share your final chapter You're leaving out the main characters in this plot: What tonearm and cartridge? Did you transfer them to the new turntable from the old one en bloc? If not, what? It would also be good to know at least whether your new turntable uses a differe... | |
| Time to choose: Baerwald, Lofgren, Stevenson ? Downunder, I don't think we're really "debating" the 3 curves so much as we are talking about what curve is optimal for what tonearms and why. I recently got very interested in tonearms that have zero headshell offset angle and are designed to be... | |
| Using tube amp with electrostatic speakers. That's a well known question for Martin-Logan's design. Most ESLs are not curvi-linear, however. Most are truly planar. The Sound Labs may appear to be curvilinear, but the apparent curve is composed of an array of planar facets, created by str... | |
| Time to choose: Baerwald, Lofgren, Stevenson ? Something just occurred to me: Is the offset angle required for Stevenson much more acute than that which is required for Lofgren and Baerwald? I think it's the opposite, because of the aforementioned need to twist the cartridge inward on a Stev... | |
| What cart. for the Reed 3P? Thoughts on pairing the Reed with the SME turntable(s): Just do it. The interaction of a tonearm with a turntable is much less significant than the complex interactions among the mat, the tonearm, and the cartridge, each with the other two. In ... | |
| Using tube amp with electrostatic speakers. Audioman, ESLs (like Sound Labs) are not "controlled" by a high power amplifier in the same way that the misinformed might say that an electromagnetic speaker (like a Magneplanar) is controlled by high power. Electromagnetic speakers, woofers in... | |
| LCR phono stages we know about Dear Ghetto,Thanks for the information on the Steelhead. I wonder what they do via the MC inputs that bypasses the LCR corrector. I do know that the MC inputs feed autoformers, but I thought that was to alter input impedance only. There are a f... | |
| Time to choose: Baerwald, Lofgren, Stevenson ? Thom, The issue of doing the twist (Chubby Checker, where are you now that we need you?) has most to do with using Baerwald or Lofgren with a tonearm designed for Stevenson. This issue therefore only or mostly comes up with vintage tonearms of the... | |
| Time to choose: Baerwald, Lofgren, Stevenson ? Thom, I don't "view" it one or the other, either. But my recommendation is based on actual real life experience. At least one other person, reporting on Vinyl Engine, had the same experience. I would not argue that others who do it do not seem ... | |
| Using tube amp with electrostatic speakers. Stewart, I apologize for the tone of my remarks; I was feeling playful, and perhaps that came across as hostility, which was not my intent. It seems impossible to get my point across to the assemblage, which is simply to re-state that one should... | |
| Time to choose: Baerwald, Lofgren, Stevenson ? Here is my advice: Find out what geometry your tonearm was built for. (Headshell offset angle will vary according to the length of the tonearm and the geometry assumed by its designer.) Then use THAT geometry for THAT tonearm. Here is why: In a... |