lewm
Responses from lewm
| Direct drive vs belt vs rim vs idler arm A close friend who lives in France has a Platine Verdier which he just recently replaced with one of the new Kronos turntables, the belt drive with a counter-rotating platter underneath the top platter. He put his Verdier up for sale immediately u... | |
| Power Filtering vs Power Regeneration? Pani, A passive device simply cannot solve Halcro's problem, if the problem has to do with AC power sags or surges. End of story.Halcro, If you search on eBay you may find an inexpensive chart recorder that can be used to monitor AC at the wall so... | |
| Direct drive vs belt vs rim vs idler arm Peter, I can have no opinion of your SME, because I have never even seen one in the flesh. By all accounts, it is excellent.Fleib, I was saying that the modern SOTA tables (e.g., Cosmos and Millennium) no longer suffer from the sin you and I descr... | |
| Power Filtering vs Power Regeneration? Halcro, Have you actually documented what's going on at the wall socket during those periods where the sound deteriorates? It would first be prudent to do that, so you are not wasting money on a (expensive) power regenerator. Another reason to do ... | |
| Direct drive vs belt vs rim vs idler arm Fleib, Your points are well taken; I am no fan of suspended tables, but suspension vs no suspension is yet another choice, in addition to, not instead of, belt-drive vs DD. As you note, a suspended DD turntable would not be subject to the belt str... | |
| 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 ... |