lewm
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| Comparison of sonic qualities of some tonearms Some measurement device is needed, for a reasonable cost, so one can adjust for zenith. I do believe Wally Tools is devising such a device but don't know for sure. I cannot even imagine how such a device could be designed so the average vinylista... | |
| Comparison of sonic qualities of some tonearms Garrard 301, maybe? | |
| Comparison of sonic qualities of some tonearms Reed 5A is the one that maintains tangency, is it not? If it is, one would expect it to be different from the CB, of course. (Sorry for stating the obvious.) | |
| SUT With a Manley Steelhead RC? ..."the unit sounded a little spare, lean..." In my experience, that sonic character is very often associated with marginal phono gain, and when higher gain is provided, the coloration is ameliorated. But if you are saying it sounded lean even af... | |
| Comparison of sonic qualities of some tonearms asvjerry, That may be why the Vestigial tonearm, supplied by Transcriptors with their still futuristic turntables, lies in the dustbin of audio history. The other reason is it was a terrible design. Pindac, I was surprised not to see carbon fibe... | |
| SUT With a Manley Steelhead RC? I still don't know what is a Veloce in terms of audio functionality. If it uses 6H30, I assume it is a linestage which you used to replace the Lamm. Yes? I have a strong bias against the utility of spending huge bucks (like $22K and up for Lamm) ... | |
| SUT With a Manley Steelhead RC? Whart, what’s a Veloce? I own a 59 Alfa Romeo Giulietta Spider Veloce, but it only plays music on an open country road with top down. Later today I’ll dig up my recipe for upgrading the Steelhead and post it here. Also, I own v2.0 with remote. I t... | |
| Comparison of sonic qualities of some tonearms drbond, There is really no difference between the experiment you propose and my recommended approach, except a different variable is being manipulated, and by the way, you have to have a control for any experiment, which in my case would be other ... | |
| Comparison of sonic qualities of some tonearms I don’t think you got my point. My point was you really cannot listen to a tone arm in isolation, because you are always listening to the combination of a cartridge and the tone arm with a dollop of turntable effect thrown in for good measure. The... | |
| SUT With a Manley Steelhead RC? in my opinion, this is an idea, for sure, but not what you would call a good idea. If you just want to know what a step up transformer can do for you, sure, go ahead and try it. But if you expect a SUT to change the sonic character of the steelhea... | |
| Comparison of sonic qualities of some tonearms I briefly owned a Transcriptors Reference TT with Vestigial tonearm. I think it was the tonearm that motivated me to sell it, but our ideas, and my own knowledge, of tonearm characteristics was quite limited back then (1980s). | |
| Anti skating SME V I'd love to see how they calibrate a new spring. Per ordering the Wally Skater, do what properly? Set antiskate? With that response from SME, I think it adds weight to the idea not to use a blank LP to set AS. And yet, the posts on doing it tha... | |
| Comparison of sonic qualities of some tonearms I might add that my best results with the Viv are using either a Yamamoto or Oyaide carbon fiber headshell, over the OEM metal headshell but the sample size is too small to justify an unqualified conclusion. And I own the 9-inch aluminum version,... | |
| Comparison of sonic qualities of some tonearms I am very happy that I purchased the Viv Float, but it is not cheap at US prices, or at least it depends upon how you define "cheap". I did get a better deal by purchasing it in Japan, in part because of a very favorable exchange rate, and thanks ... | |
| Comparison of sonic qualities of some tonearms I’m doing this experiment all the time. I’ve mentioned I have now 6 tonearms up and running in 5 TTs, three feeding Sound Lab 845PX speakers, and the other 2 feeding Beveridge 2SWs. The tonearms are Triplanar, Reed 2A, Dyna DV505, FR64S (silver wi... |