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| Best vintage or modern tonearms for Denon DP 80 For under $3000, the choice is VERY wide for excellent tonearms. There is almost nothing you cannot consider at that price or under, if you are willing to purchase second hand. Further, the tonearm is best mated to the cartridge, rather than to th... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dentdog, FYI, Rhea is not balanced. Io is balanced. That's one of the major reasons for the far higher cost of the latter. This is not to say that the Rhea is not a fine sounding phono stage. I have noticed, however, that a lot of companies blow s... | |
| Question on FR 66s Dear Henry, I am a bit puzzled about a recommendation for a specific headshell offset angle to go along with the recommended P2S distance and overhang for the 64S. In the case of headshell offset angle, isn't one "stuck" with the built-in angle? I... | |
| Inner groove "Rumble" Marakantz, With much respect, your last statement is a doozy (not a Deusie). Can you say why that would be? Would you say that the converse is true: a new phono stage is less sensitive to rumble? I don't think so. But it does follow from your prem... | |
| Inner groove "Rumble" Might help if you say what turntable, what tonearm, what cartridge. | |
| Retipping Service I 3rd the notion that Sound Smith does great work. But I was also interested in the service mentioned by Viridian above (see URL). The website is unrevealing as to what this guy does, however. Viridian, do you know what choices of cantilever and s... | |
| Do 45 RPM records need higher anti-skate setting? Omie, What do you research and what do you design? Inquiring minds want to know. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Has anyone got a "sedagive"? (See "Young Frankenstein" for reference.)These esoteric discussions of body parts have got my head in a tizzy, even with my medical background. | |
| Question on FR 66s If I can find it, I will. I actually attached the post explaining my observation to a thread where the OP was talking about the question of having to twist the cartridge in the headshell, when he was using some other vintage Japanese tonearm with ... | |
| Question on FR 66s Raul, When you have calmed down sufficiently, I would like to know what you think about my experience that suggests best sound is achieved when the cartridge is aligned according to the geometry for which the tonearm was designed. That means, for ... | |
| Do 45 RPM records need higher anti-skate setting? Ralph, Re the original question, friction (between the stylus tip and the groove) is the prime source of the skating force, and friction is independent of velocity. It's as simple as that.The only difference between a 33 and a 45 might be if the t... | |
| Why will no other turntable beat the EMT 927? Omsed, Maybe everyone else here knows you, but I don't. If you have as much industry experience as you say, you or your products must be at least moderately well known. Can you identify yourself or your professional affiliation? Thx.Kiddman, None ... | |
| Question on FR 66s Not that Raul needs to be defended; he is good at it himself, but he and his compatriot have designed and manufactured a superb solid state phono stage with many great features. Therefore, he is not fairly subject to your criticism of him as a "wa... | |
| Do 45 RPM records need higher anti-skate setting? Omsed, If you really want to get pedantic, there is no such thing as "centrifugal force". The force that keeps a body in orbit is "centripetal", or "center-seeking", meaning it has a vector directed radially toward the center (or spindle, in this ... | |
| LP Disaster Actus, For nearly any substrate you can imagine, there is a bacterium or fungus that can live on it or in it. Vinyl is delicious and nutritious to some of them. |