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| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? I think the issue with the Magic Diamond was not really that it did not sound "good" but that it sold for roughly 10-15 times the cost of the Denon upon which it was based and to some did not sound any different. In other words, it was thought to ... | |
| Trans Fi Salvation direct rim drive turntable For whatever it's worth, I have the 10.5-inch version of the same tonearm. I only meant to infer that there are differences between the two tonearms which in part account for my perception of the differences between two turntables. I like the Dyna... | |
| Trans Fi Salvation direct rim drive turntable Few of us here play at such lofty price points. I do own a highly tweaked Lenco L75 with a Dynavector tonearm and a Technics SP10 Mk3 in a slate and wood plinth of my own design, with a Reed 2A tonearm. The Lenco is divine, could easily live with ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Raul,You wrote, "As you know load impedance with low output cartridges is critical." I would say instead that load impedance with cartridges that have low internal resistance is critical. Output signal voltage has nothing to do with it. I am ... | |
| Direct drive vs belt vs rim vs idler arm I just did some review of Kelly's posts. The missing link, I think, is the fact that he would say there is no such thing as a perfectly inelastic belt. (Such a belt would not bend around a pulley.) So there is no case where E = infinity in the rea... | |
| Direct drive vs belt vs rim vs idler arm Dover, Sorry for being such a "creep". I do recall your citing Kelly's formula. It just seemed to me that he later modified his ideas. As I said, I may be wrong. If all I can do is to try to remember what someone else wrote, I am no authority. Any... | |
| Direct drive vs belt vs rim vs idler arm Dover, That Carol Kidd LP in the Linn label is a pretty good "audiophile" recording. Don't damage it on our account.A few years ago, I was in Tokyo and visited a well-stocked audio emporium. Here they had in one room pretty near all of the most ex... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Raul, I too found my 980LZS to be "dark" sounding with a 100R load. With 1000R it is much better, in my system. I wrote about this once before, and we did discuss it. I think you said that 1000R and higher made no appreciable difference to th... | |
| Direct drive vs belt vs rim vs idler arm Palasr, I am fairly certain the Timeline flashes more than once per revolution. (I cannot recall the exact frequency; maybe Mosin knows.) Thus it may detect short term speed instability, in fact, altho with what accuracy I cannot know unless I kno... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Nandric, You are correct. May I say, you've hit the nail on the head. | |
| Direct drive vs belt vs rim vs idler arm Richard, That was a great post. Very informative. Answers a question I have been privately asking myself: Several of the latter day DD turntables, and I believe one or two of the new rim drives, tout the lack of a servo mechanism as a selling poin... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Yeah, I don't hear anything dull about it, or bright, for that matter. Back when Dave mentioned the adjective "dark", I countered with "rich". I do think it has a rich coloration, but I also think that's because it really is excellent at "hearing"... | |
| TriPlanar Tips Now that all Triplanar-users are present and accounted for, does anyone know whether Tri can upgrade a 9-inch arm to a 12-incher? Normally, this would not tempt me, but it is not possible without some serious inconvenience to mount the 9-inch vers... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Typical MC inductance = ~50 microHenries.Don, I hope you don't think I was saying you were "wrong" in your opinion of the LZS. Your opinion is as valid as mine or anyone else's. However, I would never call my 980 version even slightly, even occasi... | |
| Tonearms longer than 12 inches I think this is true: The longer the arm, the more accurate one must be in mounting it in order to take advantage of the theoretically superior groove alignment. We are talking about tolerances well below 1.0 mm. In addition, the longer the arm, t... |