lewm
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| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Note from the Underground, to Nicola. It was SS to whom I sent an email "2-3 months ago", regarding their Grace stylus. I have no complaint regarding Axel, except if he really has raised his prices.. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear AcmanI sent SS an email on this subject (replacement ruby cantilever cum LC stylus for my broken Grace Ruby) at least 2-3 months ago, and I received no response at all. I figure if my interest in spending the requisite sum is so boring to the... | |
| pro-ject speed box 2 , all they say it is ? Lenco motor requires around 15-18W, IIRC. You are correct. Not to mention that if the Speedbox is designed for an AC synchronous motor, the Lenco motor is not of that ilk. | |
| Nude Turntable Project Aigenga, All this is leading to the revelation that Freud used a direct-drive turntable in a slate plinth. Given my ethnicity, I have/had no problem with the assumption of guilt. | |
| Nude Turntable Project Dear Nicola, Freud is widely quoted as having said, "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar." If he said it, I don't know whether he said it in Viennese or English, but the meaning is left to the knowledgable listener to divine. A person who had no pri... | |
| Lifespan of NOS telefunken 12AX7? Re the SP14: What I thought based on memory, but I was too lazy to look it up. The SP14 did not use 12AX7s at all, so the story if not relevant. | |
| Lifespan of NOS telefunken 12AX7? As Rrog and Elizabeth inferred, it would depend upon the plate voltage (voltage difference between anode and cathode) and DC current being run through the tube. The product of those two parameters is "plate dissipation" in Watts. Look up a tube da... | |
| Nude Turntable Project IMO, the Onedof turntable was designed around a novel idea for a bearing. The designer seems to know very little else about turntable design. Thus I think he is entitled to his opinion but that it is not much more relevant than that of any other m... | |
| Nude TT / Armpod question Henry, Your solution and the Da Vinci turntable system both comply with the conditions I outlined above in my first paragraph. So I am sure both work very well. However, I don't agree "in principle" with mounting a tt chassis on a compliant footer... | |
| Nude Turntable Project Dear Nicola, I do think there is a qualitative difference between a real plinth (including the 3-legged skeletal one described by Henry) and using just footers of one kind or another under the bottom of the chassis proper (which by the way was nev... | |
| Well Tempered latest products If the damping fluid is hygroscopic, it can absorb moisture from the air when there is high humidity and lose that water content when the air is dry. In that way, I suppose the volume of damping fluid can appear to go up and down, but the fluid it... | |
| Nude Turntable Project Henry, I see that you already started a separate thread to discuss the problem. Sorry for asking you to repeat yourself here. I will read what has already been asked and answered on the other thread. Almarg is a very knowledgeable and thoughtful g... | |
| Nude TT / Armpod question If you have a very heavy and very stable outboard arm pod, and if the turntable is also weighted down, and if both are supported on the same perfectly flat and very stable surface, then it can be made to work and hold the alignment, as Banquo and ... | |
| Nude Turntable Project Question: "I placed the 420STR on the record and hit the 'mute' and that's when an almighty noise erupted." Is this step #5? You just placed the 420STR on the LP and then un-muted?I presume the tt was activated, platter was turning. Yes?Can you ch... | |
| Nude Turntable Project "It is now possible for me to design a circular aluminium frame cut and welded out of 10mm thick flats into which I can just 'drop' the Victor."Be careful, Henry, that's what some of us call "a plinth".If you want to take the time to describe in g... |