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| Denon DP-62L users out there? Dear W8aaz, I believe you would find that the S-shaped arm wand is identical to the straight pipe you own, in terms of pivot to stylus distance and effective length. The only difference is in effective mass, most likely. Yes, you likely would be b... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Raul, I envy you that these issues are what you have to worry about. For what it's worth, I tried to find NOS vintage cartridges, whenever such were available. But in a truly NOS vintage cartridge, the suspension is likely to be stiffer (less... | |
| Why does my system sound so shrill and distorted? Before you go off the deep end to blame this on your turntable or tonearm or cartridge, have you tried another hi-level source, like a CD player, to determine whether the problem really has anything to do with phono. A bad or dying vacuum tube alo... | |
| ISO: Lenco L75 or L78 in CT I responded on your other thread. Please see my two posts there. | |
| ISO: Lenco 60Hz Motor Addendum: On the AC input side, there IS a particular way to hook-up the AC wiring to the Lenco motor so as to match the voltage coming from the wall socket. You DO need to pay attention to that aspect if you are using a motor that came out of a 2... | |
| ISO: Lenco 60Hz Motor No need for two threads on this, but I think you are creating a problem where none exists. On 50Hz, the speed of the Lenco motor will be different from its speed when running on 60Hz. True. But the standard drive shaft is tapered so as to allow ne... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? The typical Vitus owner does not know what a "db" is, and if he does see that number, he thinks 0.75 db is a very small error. He does know what $60,000 is and that spending it on a phono stage should guarantee perfection. For Fremer himself, ther... | |
| Transfi Salvation Turntable opinions Johnjc, Can you say more about the ways in which the Salvation is "very different" in its application of rim drive, compared to the Teres motor plus whatever turntable one uses with it? The general principle appears to be identical, just based on ... | |
| Top 5 favorite MM cartridges currently available Triode, Is the Maestro really a step up from Virtuoso? Several on the other MM thread suggested it was not as good, let alone better, than the V. I have no opinion, not having heard either. | |
| Stylus Drag Stringreen, If you check the other, older thread on speed stability, you will find many reports from many owners of results for many different kinds of turntables. Most were using the Sutherland Timeline as a criterion for speed stability. The sen... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? And yet it appears that in Australia there is yet no law limiting the use of question marks. (We kid, because we love.) | |
| Tonearm Noise You started two threads on the same question on the same day. I guess you are a newbie. But having now read the other thread, I can see that my questions were asked and answered. Where are you now in this analysis? | |
| Tonearm Noise The "sound" is heard through your speakers. Yes? Can you also hear some noise locally emanating direct from your tonearm as it is lowered? If not, then I suspect that your proximity to the tonearm is creating a ground loop of some kind. Also, it w... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Henry, Let's smoke a peace pipe, but please do put something illegal into it. (Maybe in Australia that "something" is not so illegal.) When it comes to my actual listening, I am very much a nihilist. Arguing about theory is sort of a separate kind... | |
| Top 5 favorite MM cartridges currently available Mo-fi, I would think he wants a high output cartridge "like" a moving magnet, so I don't know whether he would exclude an MI type from the search. An "MM" phono stage will typically deal with either unless the output is unusually low, as for a few... |