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| Why will no other turntable beat the EMT 927? Mosin is too modest to say so, but I will wager that the Saskia outperforms the EMT927, in front of an impartial audience (either blinded or free of anyone with a preconceived notion of the supremacy of the 927). Now THAT would be an interesting s... | |
| Why will no other turntable beat the EMT 927? Mosin, Would you therefore dismiss any turntable with a light weight platter (and therefore a rather low moment of inertia) as a "contender", just on that basis alone? And if so, what is your cut-off point for "acceptable" inertia, in terms of pla... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Raul, Yes, I have my eyes open for especially a Nelson Pass design. (I did not know he made one under the "Threshold" brand name. I know about the Pass Labs one.) They don't come up often and are expensive. I am trying to keep my investment "modes... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Raul,I know a few guys who do as you do. Some of them use a single Russian-made SSG type silver mica capacitor at the input of their amplifiers, value chosen for 6db/octave hi-pass filter at whatever frequency. Some very critical guys say that the... | |
| Acrylic platter I agree.That's why we have Stradivarii. | |
| VPI 3D tonearm Stringreen, Why would you say categorically that the idea is to get the counter-wt as close as possible to the pivot? The square of its distance from the pivot affects effective mass. The stone-body Koetsu might benefit from a high effective mass.... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? I agree in principle that a top quality pair of two-way monitors plus a pair of subwoofers of similar high quality can compete with any other way of obtaining one's own absolute sound. Each way of getting there has it's own set of problems. With t... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Obviously, it's a different ball game if you add subs to the Raidho's. Don't dismiss the Volti speakers just because they are, in part, horn-loaded. I don't much care for horns, either, but the Vittorias are special and don't need subwoofers to be... | |
| To ring or not to ring? Richard, IMO the ring combined with the center wt just take too much "life" out of the music. I freely admit that the quality of "liveliness" or "life" must in some part be due to resonances. I don't believe in stamping out each and every last bit... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? The Raidho's are a viable alternative for a wealthy audiophile who lives in an apartment with limited listening space. They do compete on some level with any other fine speaker, but for me, given a large listening room, there are at least a few ot... | |
| VPI 3D tonearm Wc65mustang, Perhaps you should reveal what it is you have against Harry Weisfeld and VPI. (Kidding, but could not resist.) | |
| Acrylic platter Nandric, I may be wrong, but I think Richard is saying that different operators produce different quality results, even though the machine itself is computer-controlled, and presumably even though the program being used to control the computer may... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Chopin is very insecure, else he would not be compelled to comment. Next thing you know he will be haunting eBay in search of a Shure V15 to replace his own mediocre Shure. Anyway, what Chuck Berry once sang still holds true: "Roll over Beethoven,... | |
| Acrylic platter Dear Nandric, I have no feel for the politics of Eastern Europe, now that the war is over (thankfully), and all the countries involved have new names and different borders. I don't really know who hates whom these days.The Lenco L75 platters were ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Raul, I spent a lot of time listening to a Raidho speaker, too, at the recent Capital Audio Fest here in the DC area. I think the ones I heard are called "D1", not C1.1, yet these too were stand-mounted two-way monitors. The base price was $22,000... |