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| DIY Bearing availability If you want a fully developed dedicated turntable bearing complete with housing and mounting capability, try a search on Lenco Heaven. There are two guys, Mirko and Jeremy, that make very nice bearings suitable for use with platters other than the... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Mike, For heaven's sake, don't drop the needle until you have properly set VTF. Otherwise, it will go right back to Axel.Nandric, Like a lump of sugar, I am sweet. Like a piece of copper wire, I am able to conduct electricity (briefly). And I am p... | |
| Which Mono Cartridge at around $1,300.00? On second thought(s), I don't much care for my analogy. There are problems with it. | |
| Digital microscope recommendations Thanks for that URL, Pbnaudio. It partially answers one burning question: how much magnification is "enough" for examination and photographing of styli. One set of photos on the page specify 80X, to get a pretty good side view of a stylus. In anot... | |
| Choices, turntable purchase choices? I don't know the cost of the low end Kuzma or Nottingham models, but I would think both companies make something at the upper end of your price range, and I would personally choose either over the ones you've mentioned. Also, you can get some real... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Raul, "Happy", yes. "Satisfied", never. That is the hallmark of our disease. | |
| Technics SP-10 mkII speed adjustment question It will go either on the L07D or the Mk3, in either case as a secondary tonearm (meaning mounted at the rear). In either case, I first have to create the mount. This is certainly one way in which the plinth is a pain in the arse. Right now I am ha... | |
| Technics SP-10 mkII speed adjustment question Dear Jim, Albert made me aware of it in the course of an unrelated exchange. At the time, his Mk3 was in Bill's shop to get the actual work done. Like you, I at first had no idea what Albert was talking about. In the interim, I visited Bill in ord... | |
| Which Mono Cartridge at around $1,300.00? I made my statement in terms of generalities, but your response serves to remind me that I am speaking from my very limited personal experience of comparing my MP1 (pre- and post-modification) to various other phono stages that I have actually had... | |
| Technics SP-10 mkII speed adjustment question Henry, I should have known that, like the shark in "Jaws", you were lurking out there. I never should have gone swimming here. I could not care less about this issue; I have made my decision, and you have made yours. This does not make you or me a... | |
| Which Mono Cartridge at around $1,300.00? I would be interested in Al's thoughts on this, but my subjective impression is that with an "excess" of gain and the attenuator therefore in action, background noise typically seems to be lower (and dynamics much better) than when the gain settin... | |
| Top jazz trios piano, bass, drums on vinyl? I believe John Lewis made some recordings without Milt Jackson on vibes, the "Modern Jazz Trio", as it were. He also did some solo and duo stuff. Good idea to mention him here. | |
| Which Mono Cartridge at around $1,300.00? Yes, I guess S/N would have an effect on whether one would prefer to use the highest gain available from the phono stage or set it to lower gain and use a SUT. I am SUT-less myself, never owned one. My revised Atma-sphere MP1 phono has, if anythin... | |
| Technics SP-10 mkII speed adjustment question Tim, It goes to what we talked about in the plinth thread. IMO, you need some way to appose the tendency for the whole chassis to want to rotate in the opposite direction from the platter, again described in the statement of the Third Law of Motio... | |
| Top jazz trios piano, bass, drums on vinyl? We have a local jazz DJ who says every Sunday on his show that "jazz is the sound of surprise". For me that perfectly captures why I love jazz. I still have a childish love of surprise. So, when I hear "Waltz for Debby" for the umpteenth time (tha... |