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| Jean Nantais Lenco Reference mk. ii user feedback Makes sense, because now I think I recall that Jean was one of a few guys who did not like the idea of a titanium idler wheel. Wonder what happened to Mirko. He was making quite a few products for Lenco, Garrard, and Thorens TD124, up to and inclu... | |
| Jean Nantais Lenco Reference mk. ii user feedback "Mirko" was his name. He no longer seems to offer his products via eBay. | |
| Direct drive vs belt vs rim vs idler arm I looked it up and now know Techdas is Japanese. "Techdas" sounded German to me. | |
| Direct drive vs belt vs rim vs idler arm This is the way of the turntable world: manufacturers have made their choices between hi and lo mass and hi and lo torque, and between direct-drive and belt-drive (and idler-drive). Then comes the technical justification for what each has done. Te... | |
| Jean Nantais Lenco Reference mk. ii user feedback Is this the titanium idler wheel that was being made by someone other than Jean and sold as such on eBay, etc? (I cannot recall his name.) Does it use an O-ring to contact the underside of the platter? I thought about buying that idler wheel, but ... | |
| Trans Fi Salvation direct rim drive turntable Either way, your system will be "groovy". | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dover, I feel like a politician. You quoted me out of context and from a post I wrote two days AFTER I retracted the putative assertion that there was a relationship between the two cartridges. (I say "putative" because I never intended to present... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? I wish one could edit one's posts on Audiogon. I forgot to mention the 4th fact point I wanted to make with Mr. Dover: In my post of January 9, I actually withdrew the assertion that there is any relationship between the two cartridges, based on m... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? This is a response to Dover's post, back up the thread a bit, posted on the 12th. First, I was not "assert"-ing anything; after my first post on the subject, I acknowledged that the relationship between the DL103 and the MD was "rumored" and that ... | |
| Shout out to Syntax - re: Delos Boys, is there really such a thing as a $35,000-tonearm? And is it made by Roksan (of all companies)? When I first read of it here, I went to the Roksan website. They do admit to a $3500-tonearm, but nowhere there do I see anything for $35,000. Or... | |
| Direct drive vs belt vs rim vs idler arm Yeah. The bass on mine was muffled as well. (I totally forgot about that issue.) Could be I had the version you are talking about. But when you say "we", do you mean to say you were a SOTA dealer or otherwise involved with SOTA? | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Aaarghhh! My dear Nikola, I am quite fond of you but you refuse to get the point. You are taking, once again, my statement of a simple fact, which is identical to what Raul says, as an opinion. For the last time, I fully agree with Raul; the fact ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Raul, You wrote, "IMHO,103 platform or not is not important." That is what I was trying to say, even when I was also saying that the DL103 is father to the MD. But that seemed to upset you, and certainly it upset Nikola. So it follows that th... | |
| Direct drive vs belt vs rim vs idler arm I don't think "cogging" had anything to do with the wavering pitch of my old SS Sapphire. Possibly the mounting of the motor on the plinth whilst the bearing and platter were suspended did have something to do with it. I think that cogging, if ind... | |
| Direct drive vs belt vs rim vs idler arm Dear Dover, That was a nice post. But as regards your "old" Sota Star, I had a different experience with my old SOTA Star Sapphire Series III. I owned it from about 1990 to the late 1990s. This was the turntable that made me a believer in the pote... |