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Apr 22, 2015	Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? If you are soliciting opinions from anyone with an opinion, then here is mine. It is a great idea to have a massive arm pod, and Henry has done a fine job design ing and constructing his. I could never do as well. However, the arm pod should be fi...
Apr 21, 2015	Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? I have had a few weeks now to assess the effects of the Krebs mods on my SP10 Mk3. I was kind of a reluctant dragon going into this endeavor, because I was very happy with the Mk3 "as is" (now "as was"). When listening to the Mk3, I did not really...
Apr 20, 2015	Fozgometer Personally, I bought a Signet Cartridge Analyzer about 25 years ago. All you need is a proper test LP, and it reads out crosstalk. Also has other uses. But I also think setting azimuth is a bit over-rated. Most cartridges sound fine if you set azi...
Apr 20, 2015	Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Can't no one say nothin' about Astatic for my benefit.Abrew19, The secret of most of us is that we don't have to read these 235 pages of posts, because most of us were on the thread from the beginning and read the posts at a leisurely pace as they...
Apr 19, 2015	Fozgometer Tketcham, As I understood Fremer's review and the comments of others "in the know", it seemed that the absolute voltage produced by the battery makes a difference. Thus installing a new battery is not a panacea; it seems that doing so would requir...
Apr 17, 2015	Fozgometer Thanks. I had the impression from the other posts that the Foz could be calibrated with the test tones and then still give incorrect readings when used to set azimuth. If that were the case, one would have no way to be sure whether there was error...
Apr 17, 2015	Fozgometer How do you define "whack" and whether your Foz is in or out of it? It's based on a subjective impression, is it not? Unless the azimuth is so askew as to be impossible.
Apr 16, 2015	Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Seems I started another brouhaha. I am the gringo version of Raul. Don, Forgive my pedantry, but the cartridge "drives" the SUT, not vice-versa. In any case, my Atma-sphere MP1 phono section has more than enough gain and input sensitivity that my ...
Apr 15, 2015	Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? While I would be really pissed off if anyone deleted this thread, I am not sure that all 235 pages would be recommended reading for a novice, which Abrew19 may be, if he is 19 years old. To get the most out of most of these posts, it's best to hav...
Apr 14, 2015	Aesthetix vs. Allnic vs. ARC ph7 Good point, Al. Just found this info from the S'phile review of the Rhea:"The preamp's output impedance was a low 110 ohms at 1kHz from the balanced jacks, this rising inconsequentially to 156 ohms at 20kHz but, more significantly, to 3846 ohms at...
Apr 14, 2015	Aesthetix vs. Allnic vs. ARC ph7 Dear SBrown,I don't blame you for missing the answers to your questions in reading my rather dense post. The Janus uses only two capacitor values in the coupling applications: 0.22uF and 2.0uF. I replaced the two 0.22uF caps used in both the line ...
Apr 13, 2015	Brinkmann Lagrange question. You should ask Brinkmann or try to download a copy of the owners manual. It is certainly not conventional for the platter to need a push start, but some turntable makers, e.g., Nottingham, do openly state that the platter needs to be pushed. Notti...
Apr 10, 2015	Ring Clamps. What do you think? And yet, Swampwalker, if two of us were in the same room with the same system, I think there would be a lot of agreement about what sounded good and what did not, on that particular system.By the way, Albert and Yogi had a contractual agreement. Y...
Apr 10, 2015	Ring Clamps. What do you think? It's really interesting to see how all of us agree "in principle", yet we are in separate camps, in many ways, on "practice". I think I know what TT Doug uses, and I also know that it is made by a guy who probably did an excellent job in providing...
Apr 09, 2015	Aesthetix vs. Allnic vs. ARC ph7 Sbrown, Changing the output coupling caps in my Janus made a profound difference in sound. I happened to have some 2uF polystyrene film and foils in my stash, and I used those.How did you find space to fit the Dueland capacitors in the Io? Unless ...