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| Talea Arm: What cartridges are best? Cdk84, None, other than the ZYX Uni. That constitutes my lifetime experience listening to the Talea in a home system where I "know" quite well all the other elements of the system. I also heard the Talea at RMAF with A90, I think. I will make no j... | |
| Help with my analog rig. In a single-ended system, there are many sources of hum. Tubes per se are usually NOT one of them. You probably have a ground loop somewhere. Try ungrounding some of the items that are now grounded. You don't tell us much about that. Have you grou... | |
| Brinkmann Bardo vs Transrotor Fat Bob Reference I too apologize if I offended Melbguy, but I think of Aussies as tough people, assuming his moniker indicates he is from Melbourne. I note that Melbguy opened this thread a year ago with a question, asking for a comparison of Transrotor to Brinkma... | |
| Talea Arm: What cartridges are best? ZYX UNIverse/copper/0.24mV sounded exceptional (meaning compared to every tonearm/cartridge I ever heard) on a Talea. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Well, Nikola, you got me. I am guilty of all you say. But I don't own a Glanz cartridge and never heard one. And from my ~10 cartridges, I would probably keep six of them, not just the Grace Ruby. I believe Casanova would have said, "Love the one ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? I bid 2 bucks above his minimum opening bid and thought for sure that I would never win it, but that was all I was willing to pay for a Ruby that needs a rebuild. To my surprise, no one topped my offer. I think I have the addiction under control i... | |
| Brinkmann Bardo vs Transrotor Fat Bob Reference Audioquest, On the Asylum, I am "Lew". You can also contact me by finding my ad here for selling a pair of Sound Lab M1 stat panels, has my cell phone number too. | |
| Brinkmann Bardo vs Transrotor Fat Bob Reference I looked it up, too. Life could have been simpler if they just made a direct-drive turntable instead, the new politically correct term for which is "magnetic drive". Why bother with the belt at all? If one insists on the ultimate in isolation, the... | |
| Turntable speed accuracy Travis has a DP100. But where is Travis (aka T_bone)? | |
| How many LP's do you own? How long did it take? "If you dont listen to them, why have them?" I keep mine because having them affords me the possibility of listening to them "some day". And it very often does happen that I go delving in to shelves that have not been disturbed in quite a while in... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Don, By using the phrase "flavor of the month" or similar, I for one do not mean to dismiss the particular cartridges that got that label. Most all of them that i have been able to sample are in fact superb. My point is that one can live happily w... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Don, The Grace Ruby and the Grace F9E are different animals, so all I can say is that I am glad you are happy. If I luck into an Astatic, I will give one a try. But I am not depressed about not owning one. | |
| Turntable speed accuracy Dover, I think my response to you was too harsh. I apologize. Denon DP80 uses a 3-phase AC synchronous motor and also uses a quartz-referenced servo. Speed is monitored via a tapehead that "reads" the inner rim of the platter as it rotates. Knowin... | |
| Turntable speed accuracy Hiho, Lets keep in mind that what you quote from the Brinkmann website is a commercial, full of blather with a sprinkling of fact. Like many politicians, they set up a "straw man" controversy in order to show how their product "solves" the problem... | |
| Through with Buzz. THAT is a tough one. Is there a correlation with your physically touching the tonearm? If not, consider that there could be a ground wire perhaps in your tonearm that gets shorted out when the tonearm lifts off the LP. Look for a loose wire. |