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| Garrard 301-Worth the effort? Rahman, Thanks for the info. I nevertheless did not mean to "diss" the AF plinths; that would be grossly unfair since I have never heard an AF Lenco or Garrard. I only meant to point out that their physical beauty is built into their cost. | |
| audition copper/silver arm wire in New York Frogman, Are you using the silver Litz Audio Note wire? I am about to try it out, too. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Nikola, By now you may already realize that the name of the actual person behind the eBay entity called "Foxtan" is Alex. It is just a coincidence that he and your favorite Dutch(?) cartridge repairer have the same first name. I believe Mike ... | |
| Garrard 301-Worth the effort? Dear Jeremy, If you will take the time to re-read my post that seems to have offended you, you will see that I am not guilty of having said some of the things you impute to me. As for the rest, I apologize to anyone who was offended. I am not one ... | |
| where to get AudioNote wires Pardon me. I thought you were being humorous about using aspirin, as a cure to the headache of trying to strip and solder very fine wires. | |
| where to get AudioNote wires Solder pot is the ticket for stripping Litz wire. Unfortunately, that AN stuff is so thin and flexible that it is tricky to dip it into the pot; it wants to bend and float on top due to resistance of the molten solder. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Nikola, It may comfort you to know that in the one course in Philosophy that I took in college, I had a very serious young Swiss professor who was very strong on Martin Buber (I and Thou) and Kant. I know that I read The Critique of Pure Prac... | |
| ZYX Omega or UNIverse? To add to the chorus, my neighbor has a UNI in a Talea tonearm feeding a very good downstream system, which I have heard many times driven by other sources. I have only had a brief listen, but I must say that there is either an incredible synergy ... | |
| where to get AudioNote wires Best idea I have heard or read today. Now to sleep on it. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? John, Timeltel and I were discussing the issue you bring up just today by private email. Send me a contact, and I will try to respond to your last sentence. I have a new take on why it is possible that for some tonearms and some cartridges and pro... | |
| 24 feet DIN to XLR phono cable for Graham Phantom? Dear JB, Dipoles radiate in sort of a figure 8 pattern where the pinched part of the "8" represents the radiation at the plane of the speaker, and the two top and bottom loops represent the radiation patterns in front of and behind the speaker. So... | |
| where to get AudioNote wires Froggie, I do the same, using any fairly stiff solid core wire as a guide for the thin wire.Nandric, While I have to agree that AN UK is different from AN Japan and that for a while at least the former traded on the very high reputation of the lat... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Fleib, The "basic vector", if you refer to the torque (i.e., angular force) of the turntable motor that is applied to the LP grooves, is indeed in the clockwise direction. But the force that causes skating is the friction between the stylus and th... | |
| where to get AudioNote wires Frogman, Good idea. I have done things like that before, or tried to. In some sense it is trading one problem (threading the fine and fragile wire through a braided shield) for another (threading the fine and fragile wire through teflon tubing). B... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? In my scheme, the actual force generated due to friction between stylus and groove and the lack of tangency of the stylus tip to the groove (at all but two points on its arc across the LP), has a vector that is constantly changing in magnitude and... |