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Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? While we are at it, the word is "Shinon", not "Shinnon", for god's sake. "Honnestly", I just don't know why you guys can't spell.If it's OK to talk MC cartridges here, that Ortofon MC7500 must be like unto the Shinon Red. It is very "in your face"... | |
Clearaudio " Innovation" - What? Dear Rockitman, There can be some "play" in the attraction or repulsion between two magnets. "Play" = compliance. So, even a direct-drive turntable could in that sense be said to have some compliance built into the system. All other turntable driv... | |
Anti Skating adjustment Dear Maclogan, I really don't know what you are talking about. The fact that the cartridge seeks the spindle on a rotating ungrooved LP does not in any way disprove my statement that it is not a good idea to set anti-skate using an ungrooved LP. T... | |
Pete Riggle Woody tonearm Dear Mark,I gather you are an aficionado of ZYX. I have heard only one model (the UNIverse) in one tonearm (the Talea), and the combination was superb. So good that I wonder whether there is a special synergy between the UNIverse and either wood t... | |
Custom Power Supply for 6v DC Motor tobias, Those are very nice supplies. They make AC input 6VDC supplies with up to 40A output! OP should look to find power requirements of his motor (will be in watts, W). Then figure out the current demand by dividing the power in W by 6. Based o... | |
Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Sbrownnw, As I have stated here before and based on my limited experience with a variety of HOMC cartridges and a wider variety of MM and MI cartridges, I would rank the goodness in the following order, high to low: LOMC~MM~MI>HOMC. In other wo... | |
Ideal SUT for Lyra Olympos cartridge? Oops! I see that I responded to what is now an ancient argument between Raul and others. Sorry, Raul. | |
Ideal SUT for Lyra Olympos cartridge? Raul, "ALCS"? Here in the US that stands for American League Championship Series, games that are played among the best AL teams at the close of the season to determine which of them will go to the World Series.I admire your feistiness and agree wi... | |
Pete Riggle Woody tonearm "Very adequate"?That's not up to Mikey or J Valin superlatives. | |
Clearaudio " Innovation" - What? Verdier, Kenwood (in the L07D), Transrotor, and EAR (among products I know about) have each done something like either the magnetic drive or the magnetic bearing descxribed above. This is not to say that the ideas are not good ones, just not new o... | |
Tube Life Right, a tube rectifier helps to protect the downstream tubes from simultaneous application of filament and plate voltages. The plate voltages will come up slowly. Also the simple use of a thermistor in the filament transformer primaries will prot... | |
Custom Power Supply for 6v DC Motor Just checked the Calex website. They don't make a 6V DC supply per se, but they do make 5, 10, and 12V ones. You don't say how much current you need for your motor, and that may be a shortcoming with respect to Calex. They make a 1A, 5V supply and... | |
Custom Power Supply for 6v DC Motor If it were me, I would make one. If you want to buy one, check out a company named "Calex". They sell really high quality, low ripple, low voltage power supplies that come in very nice small packages. Don't know if they make one exactly suited to ... | |
Pete Riggle Woody tonearm Nikola, What did they measure?Talea also uses but one screw to affix their rudimentary headshell to the wood tonearm wand. In fact, by inspection of photos, the two tonearms appear to have a lot in common as regards the implementation of a headshe... | |
Pete Riggle Woody tonearm You guys are making me feel good. I just bought a pair of 2SWs, just because I could not resist. They are on the way. I need to talk to Pete about them, I think.From photos, it looks like the headshell could rotate to any offset angle, since it is... |