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Wave Kinetics NVS Turntable - Stereophile Review
I think someone did test the NVS with a Timeline. This was mentioned possibly in the previous now banished NVS thread. Perhaps the person who performed this comparison will enlighten us.As to the Onedof, why would one assume it has perfect speed s... 
Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC?
What? You guys wear clothes in the listening room? 
Wave Kinetics NVS Turntable - Stereophile Review
Dear Raul, In your discourse you could not resist taking a shot at tube amplification vs solid state. There is no doubt that SS gear can easily be built to surpass most tube gear in terms of the commonly made measurements (THD, IMD, etc). However,... 
Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC?
Note from the Underground, to Nicola. It was SS to whom I sent an email "2-3 months ago", regarding their Grace stylus. I have no complaint regarding Axel, except if he really has raised his prices.. 
Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC?
Dear AcmanI sent SS an email on this subject (replacement ruby cantilever cum LC stylus for my broken Grace Ruby) at least 2-3 months ago, and I received no response at all. I figure if my interest in spending the requisite sum is so boring to the... 
pro-ject speed box 2 , all they say it is ?
Lenco motor requires around 15-18W, IIRC. You are correct. Not to mention that if the Speedbox is designed for an AC synchronous motor, the Lenco motor is not of that ilk. 
Nude Turntable Project
Aigenga, All this is leading to the revelation that Freud used a direct-drive turntable in a slate plinth. Given my ethnicity, I have/had no problem with the assumption of guilt. 
Nude Turntable Project
Dear Nicola, Freud is widely quoted as having said, "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar." If he said it, I don't know whether he said it in Viennese or English, but the meaning is left to the knowledgable listener to divine. A person who had no pri... 
Lifespan of NOS telefunken 12AX7?
Re the SP14: What I thought based on memory, but I was too lazy to look it up. The SP14 did not use 12AX7s at all, so the story if not relevant. 
Lifespan of NOS telefunken 12AX7?
As Rrog and Elizabeth inferred, it would depend upon the plate voltage (voltage difference between anode and cathode) and DC current being run through the tube. The product of those two parameters is "plate dissipation" in Watts. Look up a tube da... 
Nude Turntable Project
IMO, the Onedof turntable was designed around a novel idea for a bearing. The designer seems to know very little else about turntable design. Thus I think he is entitled to his opinion but that it is not much more relevant than that of any other m... 
Nude TT / Armpod question
Henry, Your solution and the Da Vinci turntable system both comply with the conditions I outlined above in my first paragraph. So I am sure both work very well. However, I don't agree "in principle" with mounting a tt chassis on a compliant footer... 
Nude Turntable Project
Dear Nicola, I do think there is a qualitative difference between a real plinth (including the 3-legged skeletal one described by Henry) and using just footers of one kind or another under the bottom of the chassis proper (which by the way was nev... 
Well Tempered latest products
If the damping fluid is hygroscopic, it can absorb moisture from the air when there is high humidity and lose that water content when the air is dry. In that way, I suppose the volume of damping fluid can appear to go up and down, but the fluid it... 
Nude Turntable Project
Henry, I see that you already started a separate thread to discuss the problem. Sorry for asking you to repeat yourself here. I will read what has already been asked and answered on the other thread. Almarg is a very knowledgeable and thoughtful g...