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| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? JB, I have a feeling that the results with the Mk2 might be more profoundly positive than even what I am hearing from the Mk3, if only because I think I could hear a low level gray-ish coloration with the Mk2 that is likely to have been fixed by K... | |
| What cart. for the Reed 3P? Raul, (1) I have removed the brush entirely from my 980LZS. This probably reduces its weight by 2-3 gm. (It would be interesting to know the exact weight of the brush assembly.) And (2) with age, it is quite likely that the actual compliance of th... | |
| Need New MM Cartridge Recommendation JB, Wait a week and play a lot of music before you post a review. Else you are likely to be taken by the different-ness of a new cartridge as much as by its intrinsic good or bad qualities. I also tend to trust Raul. If he says your Roksan is a "k... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? I shouldn't have written that "no one really knows" the nature of the Krebs mod. Obviously, Richard and Bill do know. But they ain't talkin'.My experience agrees with what Richard wrote about "run in". As I wrote earlier, the differences were a... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? No one really knows. There's the rub. The idea is to stabilize the stator (in the Mk2 and Mk3) so as to lessen the effect on the stator of torque inputs prompted by the servo sensing a speed inaccuracy. The thesis is that very minor displacemen... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Henry, As I now understand it, the 300 series Acutex's are induced magnet types (of that I am certain), but the later end of run 400 series cartridges are conventional moving magnet types. So, it would not surprise me if they sound very different... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Peter, It's more like "TT101 vs Mk3 vs L07D". There are too many other variables to reach a scientifically objective conclusion, especially since the conclusion is unavoidably subjective. I am thinking the TT101 does crush my Lenco, and I am a l... | |
| SP-10 parts substitution Any switch capable of handling 120VAC and a relatively low current would work. That's no problem at all. But you probably want to preserve the originality of your deck by fixing the original one, or at least to keep it looking original externally... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Cheers to you as well, JP.Just to bump this thread, which to me is more interesting than "what cartridge to use on a Reed 3P?", I will add after another night of listening to a wide variety of LPs, good and mediocre in sonic quality, that this com... | |
| What cart. for the Reed 3P? Like Chakster implied, it depends on the effective mass of the Reed what one would recommend, because each Reed can be had in something like six different species of wood that vary quite a bit in density. I have a Red Cedar 10.5-inch Reed 2A (abo... | |
| Need New MM Cartridge Recommendation Ortofon 2M Black and AT150MLX seem to be much admired, if they fall within financial constraints in terms of cost. | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? I've had two days listening to the TT101. I am beginning to actually believe that it is going to work consistently. Saturday I listened to it for a few hours with the OEM rubber mat. Then today all day, I switched to the SAEC SS300 mat. This c... | |
| Tonearm recommendation Dover, Did not see your last post until now. Rest assured I was joking about using an ADC XLM on an FR64S. That would be an extreme worst case scenario, indeed. I don't own an XLM anyway. I just got my TT101 up and running for the first time, ... | |
| Tonearm recommendation Thanks, Raul. Indeed, I thought you were one of the guys who advocated not paying attention to tonearm effective mass. However, even back in those days, were you not running those active subwoofers. More than once back then you emphatically adv... | |
| How to clean vinyl records One of many simple and cheap ways to do it is to get a flat pan deep enough and large enough to submerge a record. Get also a soft brush, preferably one that is designed for LP brushing. There several choices out there. Fill the pan with tap wa... |