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| Why will no other turntable beat the EMT 927? Tbg, Without a doubt, by external inspection the EMT 927 is built like a tank in all respects and to a quality level that far exceeds the visuals of a Garrard or Lenco. The question is only whether all that machinery also results in "the best" sou... | |
| Why will no other turntable beat the EMT 927? It is possible to distinguish "constancy" (rotation at a constant angular velocity) from "accuracy" (rotation at precisely 33.33 rpm) with a Timeline, altho I am no devotee of the Timeline. But it would be a pain in the ass to do so. One simply ne... | |
| Why No Power Button on Some Phono Stages? Dear Czarivey, I don't want to frighten you, but if you are really concerned about destructive power surges due to lightning, you should not only turn off but unplug as well. (You do not say what is the source of the "devastating surges".) A light... | |
| Why No Power Button on Some Phono Stages? What Al said.I nearly never turn off the solid state components in my audio system. The OP did not say whether the phono stages he is considering are solid state or tube type (or maybe it came out in subsequent discussion which I have not read). T... | |
| Nude Turntable Project Halcro, Yes, that is a plinth. I like the idea of removing the chassis cover below. It looks cool, too. I think this set-up, along with your extraordinary tonearm pods, has the Lew seal of approval all the way. (Your pods are so solid and heavy th... | |
| Thorens "Kugelarm" And here I thought that a "kugel" was a pudding made of noodles or potatoes. It's true that after eating enough of it one does feel as if one swallowed a cannon ball. Maybe that's how the name was derived. Anyway, my grandmother made some wonderfu... | |
| 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... |