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| Ayre DPS Bauer vs Artemis Labs Add a good motor controller to the Hyperspace, and you will also experience a major epiphany. I used a Walker Audio MC on mine and was quite surprised and amazed at what it does; I had been very skeptical prior to hearing the difference in my own ... | |
| General comments on SOTA Al, Do you agree that the classic Papst tt motor is DC? If so, I have been laboring under the delusion that they were AC. But since I have never owned a tt with a Papst motor, the consequences to me of my ignorance are nil. My oldest and dearest a... | |
| Tube Preamp Paired with Tube Phono Stage? The late Allen Wright was also among those reputable designers who advocated "no load", or 47K ohms in other words, for use with LOMC cartridges. I am sometimes astounded to read what some listeners prefer in terms of phono load resistors, often s... | |
| General comments on SOTA Agree with you, Tony. Keeping the motor and the platter from moving relative to one another is a huge advantage of the Cosmos vs the other SOTA models. My old Star Sapphire III was definitely "guilty" of speed irregularity probably related to belt... | |
| VPI Classic vs. Well Tempered Amadeus Yes, only a genius could look at a golf ball and think "tonearm".(I hope WT fans realize I am only joshing. No offense intended.) | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? I would settle for an F40, actually. It is to drool for, when you see one in person. | |
| VPI Classic vs. Well Tempered Amadeus By now the drugs should have taken effect, so I expect a glowing report. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Tom, I am just impressed that you did not screw around and bought the F10. Not an Enzo. Not an FXX for the gold-chain set. A bona fide Ferrari race car that would make Schumacher happy. When you are not swapping discontinued vintage styli among di... | |
| Ayre DPS Bauer vs Artemis Labs IME, a good AC power supply is a major upgrade for any AC synchronous motor-driven belt-drive. Save your shekels and eventually buy the Ayre PS, is my advice. You will appreciate it even more, having gotten accustomed to the sound of your tt witho... | |
| Technics SP-10 mkII speed adjustment question You're right, but was that one, or any model in the DD series, ever supplied with the CU180 mat, OEM? They also made the DDX-1000 and DQX-1000, minimalist direct-drive designs that I know for sure were supplied with rubber mats, had relatively lig... | |
| Tube Preamp Paired with Tube Phono Stage? Dear Actusreus, If what you say is true about the JC3 load resistor for MC, I share your chagrin, but one might always open the chassis, find said 100R load resistor, remove it, and replace it with a resistor of the desired value. I do agree that ... | |
| are some phono stages more resistant to hum? The OP asked whether one or another different types of phono stage might be more or less susceptible to hum. In responding, I brought up the fact that true balanced phono stages are much more immune to hum. Then we got off on this tangent. I don't... | |
| Technics SP-10 mkII speed adjustment question Sebastien, What turntables, besides those made by Micro-Seiki, were designed for the CU180? If what you have in mind are all the Micro-Seiki ones, keep in mind that they are all belt-drive types. In comparing an M-S turntable to an SP10 MkII, both... | |
| are some phono stages more resistant to hum? Dhl,To take your first paragraph, ALL cartridges (except for a very few, among which are some early Deccas and probably some others of vintage origin) are inherently balanced. The typical modern cartridge does not know or care which side of its co... | |
| Technics SP-10 mkII speed adjustment question Dear Sebastien, See above the interchange between me and Tim (Pryso). For sure, the MkII was designed around its stock platter and mat. The OEM rubber mat weighs, as I recall a bit less than one pound. (I weighed mine on a kitchen scale, but I can... |