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| no looking back Stringreen, Unless you buy only brand new LPs and your collection consists solely of LPs you bought new over the years, I am astonished to learn that you "see no need" to clean LPs. Maybe the operative word is "carefully". If you buy used LPs, try... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? So you think the 150ANV (and maybe the 2M Black) surpasses all the vintage MM and MI cartridges that we have been discussing for the past 5 years?I think very highly of Ortofon, as well. No matter how one model or another may sound, they are well ... | |
| Stylus Rake Angle John, Thanks for the treatise. I agree with your definitions of the terms, but I cannot see the point of your statement:"Now while the stylus might be set at 92 degrees, the cantilever may not be at the same angle as the the cutter."The cartridge ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? PS. My remark about the Anna derived from one of your recent previous posts, wherein it seemed that you placed the Anna in high regard. I infer that I misunderstood you. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? I did not know that MF had published the results of his listener poll. (I would not call it a contest, exactly.) Thanks for the URL. Yes, John Ellison, on VA, pointed out that the length of the cut was shorter (or longer?) for one of the 10 downlo... | |
| TTW MOMENTUS MOMENTUS "The MONSTER" Rim Drive FWIW, More than a few tonearms are made by Jelco to be sold under other brand names. I've never owned a Jelco or a Jelco clone, but many speak well of their better efforts. I am not familiar with the tonearm, but why do you say it is "silly".If yo... | |
| Stylus Rake Angle John, What do you think is meant by the first sentence in that article you referenced?:"Adjusting the cartridge for optimum SRA may alter the VTA away from optimum. Or vice versa."I usually think of VTA as a useful surrogate for SRA, but I guess t... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Hi Raul, In the above post, in the second paragraph, you seem to be ranking the Ortofon Anna as being above many of the other expensive LOMCs currently available. Were you aware of those digital downloads created by M Fremer, where he played the s... | |
| Review Almarro 318B It is of no consequence to the goodness of the amplifier, but the 6C33C is not a double triode. There is a single cathode, grid, and plate in each glass envelope. There are indeed two pairs of filament pins, perhaps because the tube sucks up 6.4A ... | |
| Stylus Rake Angle On the subject of stylus overhang:If the pivot to spindle distance is set exactly right, meaning +/-0.3mm of the recommended, because that is the best anyone can do, then it seems to me that small errors in overhang (say +/-1.0mm, but I would have... | |
| Stylus Rake Angle Dear Raul, Perhaps I am mistaken but was there not a time when you expressed the opinion that small errors in overhang do not make much audible difference, may not even be "important"? I thought that was your position vis a vis that of Dertonearm ... | |
| installing the SME V tonearm in the Technics SP10 Manitunc et al, I believe it is the square escutcheon that surrounds the platter and is part of the chassis that will get in the way, not the platter. The square also makes mounting of many tonearms with side pillars to adjust VTA difficult, awkwa... | |
| Pass Labs XONO's hum sound Do any of these devices have switching power supplies, perchance? | |
| Stylus Rake Angle Yes, but "timing" per se is the job of the turntable. The turntable provides the "X-axis" for the music, which is time. Who could argue that correct time is not important? Not me. | |
| Stylus Rake Angle None of you explained the mechanism, only why it is a good thing. I agree it is a good thing. After thinking about it last night (what I do in the dark before sleep), I decided maybe it has to do with how music is encoded in the groove vis how the... |