lewm
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| A new player in the quality Mono cartridge game Apart from the fact that I loathe Amazon, thanks for the heads up. I'd actually rather pay the extra money and buy from some other vendor, but LP Gear are not so meritorious, either. Anyway, does your preamplifier have a "mono" switch? Did you eve... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Dover, No one can be absolutely correct, except you. I should have remembered that from past experience. Not that I would argue with your obvious point here, your condescending attitude notwithstanding. Instead of "due to the tt only", I obviously... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Just a note from the peanut gallery:Halcro, you and Richard are actually in agreement. The statement from Feickert (or whatever was the outside source) was that record eccentricity will produce a regular irregularity in the frequency, forming a si... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? If Dover and Richard (and Fleib) were to refrain from commenting, we would all be the poorer for it, and this fun thread might be dead. Carry on, gentlemen. | |
| Whats wrong So, the problem WAS related to slow speed during warm-up?The suspense is killing me. However, the bottom line is that you're happy with it now. | |
| VPI Avenger I too don't understand bashing VPI, when one has the option of not buying. Certainly their products are nicely made and "honest". However, just on a theoretical level, while there are possible advantages in terms of noise floor, related to the mag... | |
| ASR Basis Exclusive and WHICH MC cartridge?? You guys do realize that this thread is 10 years old.Most likely the OP, if he is still among us, has moved on to some other system by now. The Kuzma Reference and the ASR were very de rigeur in 2005 and are still great pieces, but such is audio f... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Hiho, You may be correct. I found two sources of info that conflicted with respect to the nature of the Schroeder tonearm optionally supplied with the Dohmann tt. One claimed it was the LT; the other did not. I don't have a Minus K or its equivale... | |
| Techinics Sp-10 Mk2a break-in period I would have to think that there definitely IS a break-in period for an entirely new tt bearing system, of most types. This would vary according to the nature of the bearing (there are many types) and the materials used in the bearing system, incl... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Halcro, Continuum is dead. Long live Dohmann. Apparently, Mark Dohmann, one of the principles of Continuum, is now producing a tt on his own, for about $36,000 with a Schroeder LT tonearm, a relative bargain compared to the Caliburn. He is said to... | |
| Wacky Question about cartridges How will knowing what you bought in 1995 help you to choose a cartridge here in 2015? I don't get it. FWIW, Monster Alpha Genesis was probably made by some other company for Monster, since they were never per se cartridge makers. If you want to du... | |
| Turntable issue Czarivey, Wouldn't you agree that the problem related to transduction of sounds into the speakers was shown to be a microphonic tube or tubes? Hum and noise are other bugaboos, but if the OP is now happy, then I would guess the hum and noise are m... | |
| Whats wrong Dear Needle, In your initiating post, you said that the system "sounds like" the tt is playing "slow". At that point, PBN and others offered a possible fix for that problem with your particular tt. But in this last post, you say that you checked t... | |
| Turntable issue 1. Both speakers or one of the two?2. I doubt this is purely a grounding problem, although the hum problem might be separately related to grounding. Again, is the hum in both speakers or only one? And is it really "hum", defined as 60Hz or 120Hz t... | |
| Technics SP-10 Tonearm Pod instead of Plinth/Base What type of plywood? That makes a huge difference. For example, Baltic Birch plywood is a proven good material for tt plinths, but in general such BB plinths have been massive, for idlers and DD tt's, to achieve best results. |