lewm
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| A budget turntable exploration The key to your success (defined here as satisfaction) is or may be in great measure due to the fact that the Reference 3A Da Capo is a superb speaker that could probably reveal any upstream improvements. | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm Will I be burned at the stake for witchcraft? I am going to buy some asbestos pants. I do own and regularly use 5 other tonearms, all of which are conventional pivoted overhung types, some that you like and some that you dislike. Your vitriol is p... | |
| Recommend an MC cartridge Reimac, until reading your post, I had never heard of this new Miyajima cartridge that you purchased in Tokyo. I am a little disappointed in myself, because I just returned from almost 3 weeks staying with my son in Tokyo, and I would have loved t... | |
| Recommend an MC cartridge When you use the term "optimized", do you refer to consistency of the manufacture of a given model or do you refer to a particular construction (body materials, cantilever type, stylus shape, coils, etc) that you deem to be optimal? | |
| Recommend an MC cartridge FWIW, I had my Grace Ruby re-tipped by SS using their top line ruby cantilever/OCL stylus option. When I got it back, suffice to say it did not sound "good". I notified Peter of my dissatisfaction, and he agreed to have a second look at the inst... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm Dave, in line with what you say about the placing of the single null point, I related earlier my experience where I had gotten sloppy about using the supplied template to align the Viv; I was slapping cartridges in there without checking with the ... | |
| Mainstream Phono Stages Incorporating Premium Branded PCB Parts - Do They Exist? Pindac, it is possible to post that URL as a clickable link. Can you give that a try? | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm Yes, that is what I’ve been offering as a possibility along with the reduction in skating force. | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm No. That’s not what I wrote, and that’s not “the answer”. I’m not a glutton for punishment, and your mind is made up, so we have nothing further to discuss. If you or anyone else actually has a meaningful question, I’d try to respond. | |
| Mainstream Phono Stages Incorporating Premium Branded PCB Parts - Do They Exist? One afternoon at DeJaVu Audio, I listened to a pair of Audio Note speakers, I think their model E, if that makes sense, being driven first by an AN Kegon amplifier (for sale then at ~$125K) and then by the AN Ongaku (probably around $80K). This wa... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm theophile, For those who are adherent to the gospel about minimizing tracking angle error (TAE) at all costs, the terms "distortion" and TAE are interchangeable. In other words, they (and apparently you) use the two terms as synonyms, where TAE is... | |
| Pass XP-17 and Hana ML loading question OK. | |
| Pass XP-17 and Hana ML loading question Again, you’re relatively happy with load resistance other than 47K ohms, so a mismatch between cartridge and tonearm is not high on my list. | |
| Pass XP-17 and Hana ML loading question I don’t quite understand your last post, except it seems you’ve checked the cartridge and speaker wires and the two channels are NOT out of phase. Do you understand that point? the rest of your last post eludes my grasp. The issue I focused on is... | |
| 4Point9 vs. OL Conqueror vs. Vertere Super Groove HB “Varies” was inserted by cursed autocorrect, obviously I hope. |