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| Turntable speed accuracy Thanks, Hiho. I am heartened that SOTA fixed that problem. For years with the SOTA Star Sapphire, i thought pitch inaccuracy on piano was normal for LPs. (It replaced a TD125 way back in the early 80s, but I have no recollection of the sound of th... | |
| Rockport Sirius III & Micro Seiki 8000 comparison Unoear, Very nice system. Can that little Lamm amplifier (but not Mary's) really drive those Wilsons adequately? (I see that the Alexandras are rated 94db efficiency, which is good, but nominal impedance is ca 4 ohms, which is bad, as far as the L... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? But if you buy a Virtuoso, it has to be exactly the right type, with the black wood body, or is it the reddish brown one? And then you have to have it re-tipped by someone; I forget whom, either vdH or the eponymous "Axel".Yes, I too am interested... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Don, If you are that concerned about Raul's scoring system, I don't know how you can sleep at night. In the end, your own opinion of how each cartridge sounds on your own turntables, mounted on your own tonearms is ALL that counts. I use Raul... | |
| Turntable speed accuracy "After living with it from '96 till today, I can say that it is not to my liking."Dear Geoch, After reading the line I have pasted above this one, I would have to say that 15 years of suffering gives you the right to criticize. Now you can get rid... | |
| Turntable speed accuracy Dear Hiho, I am trying to understand your post on SOTA. Do you mean to say that the Cosmos is subject to M Fremer's critique (motor mounted to base/platter on spring suspension, which is also my criticism), or not? Most users seem to like the Cosm... | |
| Turntable speed accuracy Davide256, With all due respect, you are wrong. Linn is OK right after the suspension is tuned and for the next week thereafter. AR and SOTA, up to and perhaps not including their very latest TOTL models, are seriously flawed as regards speed stab... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Raul, I am still hoping for your advice on whether to have my used M312 stylus rebuilt and by whom (vdH vs Alex). That is another way of asking whether you think such a chimera is likely to outperform my bone stock NOS LPM320STRIII, which is ... | |
| Whest P.30R, P.30RDT and P.30RDT SE Dcarol, One might well have more than one cartridge or even more than one tonearm with one or more cartridges. On a certain evening or for a certain LP, one might be in the mood for one cartridge/tonearm combo vs another. It would indeed be nice t... | |
| Turntable speed accuracy Dear Ct, Always glad when I can "clarify" something for you, but who can imagine 500 tonearms sitting on one LP? Now that takes some fantasizing. Thanks, Tim, for bringing up that very simple metaphor.Downunder, if the battery in the Timeline is r... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Raul, The only thing I would say for sure re your evaluation of the 420 is that it is specious to arrive at general conclusions based on only one sample, for a cartridge that is now 25-30 years old. It could be that yours has stiffened up mor... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Raul, The only thing I would say for sure re your evaluation of the 420 is that it is specious to arrive at general conclusions based on only one sample, for a cartridge that is now 25-30 years old. It could be that yours has stiffened up mor... | |
| Turntable speed accuracy Since Dertonearm did this to me once, when I erroneously attributed the phrase "one man's meat is another man's poison" to Shakespeare, I will now point out that Shakespeare is the oft-cited source for the quote "love is blind" (from The Merchant ... | |
| is it time to mention tonearm's length again? When you say "traction", do you mean "tracking" (the ability of the cartridge to stay in the groove during difficult musical moments) or "friction" (force generated by stylus tip traveling in the groove that is counter to the rotation of the platt... | |
| Turntable speed accuracy Ct, Altho I am currently a partisan of direct- and idler-drive turntables, I would nevertheless take those data you quoted (0% speed deviation at 5 kg.cm) with a grain of salt. The Technics uses a servo to keep speed stable, but a servo is not per... |