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| To ring or not to ring? Johnny Cash. Where are you when we need you? (Ring of Fire.)I have a peripheral ring made 30 years ago by Kenwood for use with the L07D. I use the ring only to improve the inertial mass of the platter; I place it UNDER the lip of the LP, rather th... | |
| New Schroeder linear tonearm, any thoughts? Leicachamp, Ideally, neither the Schroeder nor the Thales have any tracking error, so the answer is "no". However, life is seldom ideal, so the real answer is "who knows?"Johnny, It seems that the trick of the Schroeder is to look simple enough so... | |
| To those with multiple tables/arms/cartridges Dear Nandric, Good choice! I have been interested in the Jasmine as well, but I have a predilection for vintage equipment, as you may have guessed. There is a lot of positive buzz regarding the Jasmine, nevertheless. I imagine it is very good. So ... | |
| To those with multiple tables/arms/cartridges Dear Henry, Funny you should use that phrase, "cooking with gas". There was an audio show in my area this weekend, the "Capital Audio Fest". I attended all day on Saturday. There I saw a device heretofore unknown to me, the Stein "Harmonizer". The... | |
| To those with multiple tables/arms/cartridges Nandric, I have been studying "vintage" phono stages for the last few months. By "vintage" I refer to units designed and built from the 70s to the 90s, not the real old pre-1970 units that by now need rebuilding. This is because I am so enamored o... | |
| Acrylic platter Two addenda:(1) The ceramic platter to which I am referring in my first paragraph is the one Dave asked about, the optional ceramic platter for the L07D.(2) I made a technical error in stating that the Slagle preamp drives the strain gauge cartrid... | |
| Acrylic platter Dave, I am familiar with it at a distance. I don't own one. And the reason I don't own one is that there is unanimous agreement among those that do or did own one that it is inferior to the stock stainless steel platter sheet, in terms of sonics.I... | |
| Acrylic platter Dave, FWIW, the Kenwood L07D came with a stainless steel mat, 30 years ago. When I listen to mine, I feel no urge to experiment with something else, but there are those who diss the L07D because of that mat. There is no unanimity of opinion in thi... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Both the Talisman Alchemist and the Virtuoso Dti were often reviewed and highly regarded back in their day. The problem is that I don't trust those who regarded them highly. As always, I have an open mind, but I also have to ask why bother, since ... | |
| Dynavector 505 to replace modded Incognito RB300. Thanks, Mofi. I was going to have to hunt down my wife's kitchen scale and then try to balance the 505 on it, which would be tricky. | |
| Dynavector 505 to replace modded Incognito RB300. Czarivey, The weight of the plinth and the armboard, respectively, is irrelevant. What matters is the tensile strength of the springs that support the total mass. However, if you like I can weigh my DV505; it is currently not mounted. | |
| Dynavector 505 to replace modded Incognito RB300. It will "work" with any turntable. The only issue would be its mass; it is a relatively heavy construction. (I am not referring to "effective mass"; I am referring only to the total weight of the entire assembly.) There could be some issues with s... | |
| Acrylic platter Sorry, but the very fact that you are entertaining this expensive change in platters made me think you were entering into it with the bias that acrylic would be superior to alu. Anyway, you asked for opinions, and you got opinions. I would sooner ... | |
| VPI Classic - Now you have one...... Stringreen, It would seem that a way to avoid hum with the Classic/Grado combo is to shield the motor of the Classic, assuming that the motor is somewhere inside that plinth where it creates an EMI field that is picked up by Grado. The shield shou... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? I thought I would raise my head here to say I truly dislike nearly every HOMC cartridge I have ever heard. In fact, the only "good" one was my van den Hul Colibri, which I bought from Mike Lavigne. It had been specially made for Mike to have about... |