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| Why will no other turntable beat the EMT 927? Omsed, Maybe everyone else here knows you, but I don't. If you have as much industry experience as you say, you or your products must be at least moderately well known. Can you identify yourself or your professional affiliation? Thx.Kiddman, None ... | |
| Question on FR 66s Not that Raul needs to be defended; he is good at it himself, but he and his compatriot have designed and manufactured a superb solid state phono stage with many great features. Therefore, he is not fairly subject to your criticism of him as a "wa... | |
| Do 45 RPM records need higher anti-skate setting? Omsed, If you really want to get pedantic, there is no such thing as "centrifugal force". The force that keeps a body in orbit is "centripetal", or "center-seeking", meaning it has a vector directed radially toward the center (or spindle, in this ... | |
| LP Disaster Actus, For nearly any substrate you can imagine, there is a bacterium or fungus that can live on it or in it. Vinyl is delicious and nutritious to some of them. | |
| Question on FR 66s By the way, good luck with getting the overhang accuracy to 0.3mm, so as to distinguish between 14.7mm and 15mm, anyone. A little cantilever flexing will obliterate any such precision. | |
| Technics SP-10 MKIIA tonearms Unfortunately, electrolytic capacitors will always fail with age, usually anywhere from 10 to 25 years, depending upon use and abuse. It's "the law". But fortunately, modern electrolytics are superior to the ones that were made when the Mk3 was bu... | |
| Question on FR 66s Raul, North of your border, a spoiled female would say, "Peel me a grape". There's a great jazz tune with that title, written by Dave Frischberg. If one is going to use a protractor, is it a bad idea to use a "good" one? I think not. I did not use... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Using the magnifier provided on eBay, I can already see that the mating of the stylus to the cantilever, and the crushed "U" shape of the cantilever where it mates to the stylus in the LP Gear imitation, are not the same as what you've got there. ... | |
| Do 45 RPM records need higher anti-skate setting? I am with Doak in that skating force originates due to friction between the stylus tip and the groove. That friction force is a constant with respect to velocity (but not constant with respect to much else). Nevertheless, the only difference betwe... | |
| Why will no other turntable beat the EMT 927? Dear Omsed, So I know what you don't like. What DO you like among modern "state of the art" turntables? The breadth of your experience may exceed all of ours combined. I can say I prefer my very highly tweaked Lenco (only the original motor and pl... | |
| Question on FR 66s Tempus fugit.Thanks, Henry, for the clarification. | |
| Technics SP-10 MKIIA tonearms Downunder, I don't think the mating of a tonearm to a turntable is nearly as critical as mating a tonearm to a cartridge of choice. So, my response to your question would be to choose between the EPA and the Graham based on the cartridge preferenc... | |
| Question on FR 66s I have to say that back when Halcro asked about setting up his cartridges in separate headshells so that each cartridge could be used with each of his tonearms (at the time, I thought he wanted flexibility among several tonearms, not just 64S and ... | |
| Why will no other turntable beat the EMT 927? Hi Thuchan,You mention the R80, but I am not familiar with that model. Is it essentially an EMT 927 without built-on tonearm and phono stage? Based on what you say, you are the foremost expert on the sound of the 927/R80 and the best person to say... | |
| Fremer's review of the Anna cartridge The thread could as well have been titled, "Tempest in a teapot".Stringreen, I am very surprised to learn of your experience with Ortofon cartridges. Mine is the opposite. In addition, direct examination of any Ortofon cartridge at any price point... |