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| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Raul, I've got Pickering XVS4500 and 7500. In the latter case, it may be that I have just an NOS XVS7500 stylus, which I purchased as a future replacement for the unobtainable D98S Stanton stylus in my 980LZS. You might also try your XVS4500 ... | |
| Technics SP-10 mkII speed adjustment question I guess I will ask another question and also bump this thread. Albert, did you have any truly objective way to know that the Krebs mods made a significant improvement in your Mk3's performance? Or are you reporting a subjective impression, which i... | |
| Left channel fading in and out What Almarg said.With reference to Zd's idea, I cannot imagine how "knocking" the cartridge out of alignment could produce the phenomenon that you described, but you're going to find out whether the cartridge is the cause by swapping channels all ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Raul and anyone else, In addition to my newly acquired NOS M320 (flat nose), I also own a used M312 of unknown provenance. Is the M312 body identical to the M320 one? Could I therefore hope to benefit from an Axel "refresh"? Here I define the... | |
| Technics SP-10 mkII speed adjustment question Dear Richard and Albert, As you both know, Bill Thalmann would be the one to upgrade my Mk3 with the Krebs mods. (Until 2 days ago, I did not know Mr. Krebs' identity. Nor did I know enough to credit him; now I do.) Bill's shop is about 30 minutes... | |
| Technics SP-10 mkII speed adjustment question I came upon this old thread whilst searching for more specific information about the Krebs SP10 Mk3 modifications. Suffice to say that I can find none on the internet, aside from the generalities revealed in this thread. My interest is piqued beca... | |
| Garrard 301-Worth the effort? Have you checked out the Q-ing device? It may be bent. If the Q is preventing the LP from sitting down on the outermost groove, it can usually be re-adjusted (or in this case, straightened, if bent). Most have a set screw of some kind that permits... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dave, You wrote, "Peter gets a poor grade for unresponsiveness to emails." This is exactly why SS does not (yet) have my broken Ruby stylus assembly for repair. As you know, on their website they advise communicating by email. Thus far, I have sen... | |
| Direct drive vs belt vs rim vs idler arm Dear Lohanimal, I realize your generalizations regarding the virtues of each type of drive system are thoughtfully arrived at, but even they are open to question. I agree with the others, who agreed with me (no surprise), that execution is paramou... | |
| Direct drive vs belt vs rim vs idler arm I think of "rim drive" as a variation on the idler-drive theme, nothing to do with DD. Only, unlike the classic idlers, there is no discrete idler wheel in the energy pathway, which in my view makes rim drive more likely to transmit noise into the... | |
| Direct drive vs belt vs rim vs idler arm I agree with Viridian, execution of whatever design philosophy is the key, not the philosophy per se. Then comes the ears and brain of the listener and all the other things in life that bias us to prefer one thing vs another. (I find that I prefer... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Dover, You wrote, "rotational speed needs to be adjusted for the changing overhang as the arm transverses the record". I think what you refer to is the fact that the cutter head is like a straight-line tonearm. Thus when one is playing an LP ... | |
| Direct drive vs belt vs rim vs idler arm Zd542, You are of course entitled to your opinion, as is anyone else, but it would be well to keep your facts straight. Like it or not, in a DD turntable, the motor is not "attached" to the platter in the way you seem to think. Rather, the platter... | |
| MC cart, can I use MM phono preamp? Not to take issue with the fundamental sense of Doug's post, it is in fact also true that MM cartridges are affected by loading perhaps even more so than MC types. Most importantly, because of their much higher inductance compared to an MC, MM car... | |
| Calling all Panzerholz Aficionados I am not sure that your underlying assumption (that lots of us use Panzerholz) is valid. Panzerholz, as you know, is very expensive and very very hard, therefore hard to build with. Moreover, if one uses it to build a plinth one is not necessarily... |