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| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Here is a nice explanation involving the tangency hypothesis that I found on DIYAudio. In this thought experiment, tangency and headshell offset angle are one and the same. But it seems to me that even if the headshell offset angle was set to zero... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Fleib, Someday I will sit down and really think this through with pencil and paper in order to develop a higher level of conviction, but I take your point for now. You might like to know that I was once dressed down by someone either here on Audio... | |
| Well tempered question? I gave up. My dear friend is not using the WTR any longer. He and I watch movies instead. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Prof, Force in all Newtonian mechanics IS a vector quantity, by definition. JCarr's use of the term is not casual; it is correct. Newton's Laws of Motion require that a force has a direction; that's the definition of a vector quantity. The fo... | |
| Well tempered question? And the viscosity of peanut butter is....?I confess I have developed an antipathy toward that WTR tonearm. It does not hold VTF or azimuth, and it is over-damped (admittedly possibly due to something my friend did to it; he is now suffering from e... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Prof, I would rather talk cars with you than skating force. I was once a Porsche guy, for 30 years, nothing newer than '65. Owned many Speedsters, owned 3 different Carrera GT Speedsters in fact. My zenith was a 550 Spyder, two serial numbers away... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Heh-heh. Here we go again. I heard not only channel imbalance but also gross distortion of treble frequencies. (This was with one particular cartridge on one particular LP on my Triplanar, so could be different for different styli that don't produ... | |
| Well tempered question? I have had several experiences setting up the WT Reference tonearm for a friend of mine who has owned the WTR tt and tonearm for nearly 20 years. IMO, the stock damping fluid in the tonearm well is way too viscous. If I had my druthers I would use... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Raul, I assumed that your point in asking me and others to move the cartridge fore or aft in the headshell was to demonstrate to me/us that "perfect alignment", as opposed to "approximate alignment" (which is where you end up if you move the ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Raul, All I wrote was that striving for perfect alignment or as near as possible to that goal is similar in nature to your own goals for perfect RIAA equalization and lowest possible measurable THD and IMD, indeed, your whole crusade against "dist... | |
| how important is linestage preamp with vinyls only Sorry. I have no experience with any of those particular tonearms, but I do have a bias (why not?) in favor of the modern SME tonearms over the old SME tonearms, e.g., 309 vs 3009. For tonearms in the $1000 to $2000 price range, I like the Dynavec... | |
| how important is linestage preamp with vinyls only Dear Avs9, You have some top quality cartridges, a really good selection. Pardon my saying so, but the cartridges exceed the capabilities of your two tonearms. A tonearm upgrade might produce more results for you than tube rolling, not to mention ... | |
| SME 20/2 Finger Lift Hum Dear Dover, If you re-read the thread you will see that every single point you made has already been made, and your "theory" has already been proposed. At least you and I and others agree. Insulating the finger-lift has apparently worked to elimin... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Ct0517, Perhaps your advice would hold true if said R2R recorder had a well massaged and upgraded output circuit, but I think the stock circuits of yore add enough new distortions so as to mitigate if not abrogate any other advantages of R2R ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Mike, "The screw a 8 32 i think goes from the arm to the trough." So you would remove that screw entirely if you are going to remove the damping trough. But that would not lighten the arm wand, i.e., it would not reduce tonearm effective mass. (I ... |