lewm
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| Truly Stunning Vinyl Album This thread will only die when vinyl itself finally goes away completely, and even then… | |
| Step Up Transformers….Are they Worth the Trouble? If it were I, I would want to have a concrete reason for why an outboard Etsuro SUT would outperform the SUTs built into the Allnic, before spending the bucks for the Etsuro. There are more readily conceivable reasons why that might be a downgrade... | |
| Feel Silly Asking This Question Alignment Parameters At best, any AS setting can be correct (exactly equal in magnitude to the skating force) at only two points on the LP surface. There is a fairly broad range of settings that will satisfy that requirement, 11% of VTF being one of them. I’d be curio... | |
| Garrard 301 - Project Lalitk, That does look MUCH more stable. Good choice. 350 LPs is roughly 10% of my LP collection (though I estimate 3000 LPs, not 3500). I’ve got LPs stored in 3 locations on the first floor of our house in two antique cabinets and on some bookshe... | |
| Feel Silly Asking This Question Alignment Parameters Why must I have the Wallyskater, if I have both a Smartractor and a Feickert protractor? To set AS? Or what? | |
| Step Up Transformers….Are they Worth the Trouble? The problem with current drive is that to have true current drive, the input impedance of the phono stage has to be zero, and that's not possible (because the signal would go to ground; in effect a mute switch). Atma-sphere made the interesting p... | |
| Advice on a recently purchased Maplenoll Athena Mijo, The hoses are because the Proscenium has an air bearing platter and an air bearing tonearm, which is an homage to Maple Knoll, even also including the lead platter, albeit the Proscenium platter is gigantic in size and mass compared to any M... | |
| Advice on a recently purchased Maplenoll Athena Sorry to hear about Pierre. I used to be a casual friend but had not seen him or heard from him for many years, much more than 3 years. Because of the public and private silence, I did suppose that he might have passed, which is why I used the eup... | |
| Advice on a recently purchased Maplenoll Athena You might contact Mapleshade Audio. Pierre Sprey of Mapleshade used to upgrade those TTs. I don’t know if Pierre is still active but I think the company still exists. | |
| Step Up Transformers….Are they Worth the Trouble? I think it's fair to say that Mijostyn is relating his own experience, as he plainly admits. His experience is with one current driven phono stage that he owns. So I would say that for him, for his phono stage, and for his selection of cartridge... | |
| Feel Silly Asking This Question Alignment Parameters I agree with all you say above, but I just wanted to point out that increasing (what I thought was EL but my in fact be P2S) from 222mm to 225mm has little effect on effective mass, which of course has nothing to do with alignment per se. If we ar... | |
| Garrard 301 - Project That thing (Tallboy) holds 350 LPs? Can you optionally configure it so the center section holds additional LPs, instead of a TT plus electronics? I assume you will not mount your Garrard on it; I hope. It does not look sturdy enough for a TT or ev... | |
| Feel Silly Asking This Question Alignment Parameters Dover, I’m not quite sure what the argument is really about but my calculations suggest that a change in EL from 222mm to 225mm would increase effective mass by only about 2%. | |
| Step Up Transformers….Are they Worth the Trouble? Every one of us would say the same. No surprise. | |
| Feel Silly Asking This Question Alignment Parameters I am struggling with ..."any given frequency has a shorter wavelength as the groove speed declines,...." That is from Mijo's post but he was only reiterating a quote from Raul. Frequency and wave length are inversely and constantly related, rega... |