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| Direct drive vs belt vs rim vs idler arm I asked my iPhone, "How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?" Siri then went into a lengthy dissertation on angels and arrived at the conclusion that angels are non corporeal and therefore have no dimensions in space; ergo an infinite numbe... | |
| Direct drive vs belt vs rim vs idler arm Dear Dover, You wrote, "As an aside the Technics based cutter lathe SP02 motor had significantly more torque than the SP10mk3 motor, and used a 60lb flywheel in conjunction with the higher torque to achieve stability."Yes, the SP02 motor is even l... | |
| Direct drive vs belt vs rim vs idler arm Dover, While it's true that both the L07D and the Mk3 have heavy-ish platters compared to most DD turntables (the Mk3 having the heaviest platter I know of among all DDs), the two turntables are otherwise about as dissimilar in design philosophy a... | |
| mono cartridge vs stereo If our modern day audio press were interested in education, a la the dear departed Audio Magazine, they would run an article explaining "mono" cartridges and the technical differences between vintage mono and modern mono recordings. But they're in... | |
| mono cartridge vs stereo Gondo, A mono phono stage adds yet another layer of complication, in terms of decision making. First, why use a mono phono stage if your "mono" cartridge is naught but a stereo cartridge that is internally strapped to produce a mono signal? In tha... | |
| Audio Research VT100 MKll Stays on I hope the grammarians have not frightened off the OP. Would like to know more about his problem or at least the answers to my questions. His English is actually just fine, although lacking in punctuation, as someone else remarked. | |
| Anyone try Synergistic Research PHT... Zd542, Naahhh. I'm as bad as anyone else. This is why good science depends upon double-blind testing. But I did not say audio has to be good science.Phil, When a cartridge gets a lot of use, the only thing that wears are the stylus and the suspens... | |
| Anyone try Synergistic Research PHT... Phil, Thanks for relating your real-world experience. I was surprised to learn that your PHT weighed .015gm (=15mg), as I thought I saw a stat on the SR website of .001gm, for the PHT, albeit that seemed too low to be true. (Here I do not mean to ... | |
| Anyone try Synergistic Research PHT... All I say is that there IS observer bias, and it works in a major way to affect our sense of things. Where did I say that I can measure it or know for sure the degree to which it has affected a review? If you thought I meant to say that, or anythi... | |
| Audio Research VT100 MKll Stays on Terry, You wrote, "I have it plugged into one of the switched outlets on my power conditioner and I'm just turning it on and off that way but I've replaced the switch twice which both times worked for a while and then the same thing"...At first I ... | |
| Anyone try Synergistic Research PHT... JWPstayman, Pardon me, if I was incorrect in my assumption that the PHT is itself a tiny magnet. However, I did not make that up; I read it somewhere during my effort to research this product. If I am wrong, a thousand pardons.Now, as to your cont... | |
| Anyone try Synergistic Research PHT... Dev, According to the SR website, weight of the PHT = ".001 gm" = 1 mg.Thus there should be very little effect on tonearm effective mass and only a small adjustment of VTF is necessary after installation. I guess it "sticks" to the body of the car... | |
| Anyone try Synergistic Research PHT... Sbayne, I am not dismissing the PHT. In fact, I wrote above that since one can have a 30-day trial period, I'd support the decision to give it a shot. Glad your happy with the PHT; as I also said in my first post, I do know that others besides you... | |
| Anyone try Synergistic Research PHT... Zd542, The idea of observer (in this case "listener") bias is much older than this discussion. It has long been taken as a given in the design of any study that involves opinion or human judgement of any kind and that purports to be "scientific". ... | |
| Anyone try Synergistic Research PHT... I have read several glowing subjective "reviews" of this item, and I will predict that you will be swamped with similar. If you can arrange a "free home trial", it seems a reasonable thing to try. But I don't know any scientific evidence that supp... |