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| Direct drive vs belt vs rim vs idler arm FWIW, I use a "Jeremy" bearing on my Lenco. Jeremy is in England and makes several different versions of replacement bearings for Lenco and possibly for Garrard. I have his "Superbearing" with an accessory clamp that attaches underneath the turnta... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? I think the issue with the Magic Diamond was not really that it did not sound "good" but that it sold for roughly 10-15 times the cost of the Denon upon which it was based and to some did not sound any different. In other words, it was thought to ... | |
| Trans Fi Salvation direct rim drive turntable For whatever it's worth, I have the 10.5-inch version of the same tonearm. I only meant to infer that there are differences between the two tonearms which in part account for my perception of the differences between two turntables. I like the Dyna... | |
| Trans Fi Salvation direct rim drive turntable Few of us here play at such lofty price points. I do own a highly tweaked Lenco L75 with a Dynavector tonearm and a Technics SP10 Mk3 in a slate and wood plinth of my own design, with a Reed 2A tonearm. The Lenco is divine, could easily live with ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Raul,You wrote, "As you know load impedance with low output cartridges is critical." I would say instead that load impedance with cartridges that have low internal resistance is critical. Output signal voltage has nothing to do with it. I am ... | |
| Direct drive vs belt vs rim vs idler arm I just did some review of Kelly's posts. The missing link, I think, is the fact that he would say there is no such thing as a perfectly inelastic belt. (Such a belt would not bend around a pulley.) So there is no case where E = infinity in the rea... | |
| Direct drive vs belt vs rim vs idler arm Dover, Sorry for being such a "creep". I do recall your citing Kelly's formula. It just seemed to me that he later modified his ideas. As I said, I may be wrong. If all I can do is to try to remember what someone else wrote, I am no authority. Any... | |
| Direct drive vs belt vs rim vs idler arm Dover, That Carol Kidd LP in the Linn label is a pretty good "audiophile" recording. Don't damage it on our account.A few years ago, I was in Tokyo and visited a well-stocked audio emporium. Here they had in one room pretty near all of the most ex... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Raul, I too found my 980LZS to be "dark" sounding with a 100R load. With 1000R it is much better, in my system. I wrote about this once before, and we did discuss it. I think you said that 1000R and higher made no appreciable difference to th... | |
| Direct drive vs belt vs rim vs idler arm Palasr, I am fairly certain the Timeline flashes more than once per revolution. (I cannot recall the exact frequency; maybe Mosin knows.) Thus it may detect short term speed instability, in fact, altho with what accuracy I cannot know unless I kno... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Nandric, You are correct. May I say, you've hit the nail on the head. | |
| Direct drive vs belt vs rim vs idler arm Richard, That was a great post. Very informative. Answers a question I have been privately asking myself: Several of the latter day DD turntables, and I believe one or two of the new rim drives, tout the lack of a servo mechanism as a selling poin... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Yeah, I don't hear anything dull about it, or bright, for that matter. Back when Dave mentioned the adjective "dark", I countered with "rich". I do think it has a rich coloration, but I also think that's because it really is excellent at "hearing"... | |
| TriPlanar Tips Now that all Triplanar-users are present and accounted for, does anyone know whether Tri can upgrade a 9-inch arm to a 12-incher? Normally, this would not tempt me, but it is not possible without some serious inconvenience to mount the 9-inch vers... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Typical MC inductance = ~50 microHenries.Don, I hope you don't think I was saying you were "wrong" in your opinion of the LZS. Your opinion is as valid as mine or anyone else's. However, I would never call my 980 version even slightly, even occasi... |