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| Simple & Cheap Way to Cut Turntable Vibrations Mike, Whatever floats your boat is fine. However, it would seem to me that having the feet touch the shelf defeats the purpose of the balls, to a degree at least. The TT feet afford an energy path that bypasses the balls, in both directions, altho... | |
| When a Reviewer "likes" something Dertonearm's tonearm is out and about, for about US$14K, if memory serves. (My memory does not always serve, so check it out for yourself.) Raul's is not far off, or so I am told privately. | |
| Brinkmann vs TW Acustic Iaxelrod, Just to be accurate, the Lenco is a great turntable, but it is NOT direct-drive. It is an idler drive, like the Garrard 301/401 and the Thorens TD124. This means that the motor is in direct contact with a wheel that is also in direct con... | |
| Simple & Cheap Way to Cut Turntable Vibrations Geoff, Bunjee cord? Wouldn't that be too hopelessly bouncy, unless one also applied some dampening? | |
| Simple & Cheap Way to Cut Turntable Vibrations Herbie rates his balls according to the load they will tolerate. I think he sells at least two types that differ in differ in size and possibly elasticity, to account for variation in mass. Since his balls are relatively inexpensive and since he h... | |
| Brinkmann vs TW Acustic Why do you line up their respective products as you have done? The Bardo and the Oasis are direct-drive. All of the Raven products are belt-drive. The LaGrange is a high end belt drive type. If you like direct-drive, don't consider any Raven. If y... | |
| When a Reviewer "likes" something Dear Raul,You wrote, "well that's something that I too learned but that IMHO is not really true. Lewm, the most important watt(s) is/are those that are asked by the speakers and the amplifier can supply with accuracy in real time. Music is not " s... | |
| Where to go from here What you describe cannot possibly be due to the wiring of the interconnects, but it might be due to dirty contacts at either end. Try cleaning your RCAs, both male and female with any good contact cleaner. Or you may have a loose tube socket in th... | |
| When a Reviewer "likes" something Peter, you wrote "I think Raul seems to want his system to reproduce what is on the recording with as little distortion as possible. You seem to want your system to sound like a live music. Those seem to be different goals."Actually not. At least ... | |
| When a Reviewer "likes" something Bifwynne, Your summation of Ralph's paper is pretty much synonymous with what I last posted. In general (a very important qualifier), don't try to drive a 4-ohm speaker with a tube amplifier, unless it is one humongous beast. Especially don't mate... | |
| Simple & Cheap Way to Cut Turntable Vibrations Bifwynne, Mike has a good idea. Essentially Herbie's Audio "Isocups" with "Supersonic Hardballs" are naught but small "dead" squash-like balls. And they should work well. The Herbie's part is cheap enough to consider, and the cup he supplies will ... | |
| When a Reviewer "likes" something I think we should go private with this argument, if you wish. It has nothing to do with the topic.I can't resist one point: speakers in general have evolved to match solid state amplifiers. Does that mean necessarily that we are left with the best... | |
| When a Reviewer "likes" something Raul, Unless you have the unique capacity to listen directly to amplifiers and preamplifiers without the need for a speaker, let me only remind you that we listen to speakers, not amplifiers and preamplifiers. The choice of amplifier should be det... | |
| Simple & Cheap Way to Cut Turntable Vibrations Why would a felt pad do anything? How thick?Not that someone who uses Mandarin orange slices in water is in any position to criticize. But I do have a little fantasy that goes along with my idea. | |
| Simple & Cheap Way to Cut Turntable Vibrations Here's the thing, Doug. If the cans didn't work, I could always eat the contents. For $3 per footer, you can't go wrong. But I confess I in a sense spent a little more than $3; I had some truly "audiophile" Black Diamond Racing carbon fiber tiptoe... |