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| TW-Acustic Raven 10.5 or DaVinci Grandezza?? OK, so a few of those incredible Italian industrial designers slipped across the border from Italy into Switzerland. Perhaps politics had something to do with that. One can see many Ferrari's zipping around Alpine roads. I was once overtaken by a ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear ds, That is my impression too when I go back to some MCs compared to my fave MM/MI cartridges. The MC will seem to have a lean-ness that makes one feel there are empty spaces where once there was music. But I feel like my experience of MM/MI ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Hi guys, I have been away from here for awhile. I just reviewed all the emails that were posted since my last one, in hopes of finally finding out what MC cartridge has caught Raul's fancy. No luck.Although I had successfully avoided for several m... | |
| TW-Acustic Raven 10.5 or DaVinci Grandezza?? Like most things Italian, the Grandezza is simply gorgeous. "Simply" is the operative word, too. I am thankful that it is so expensive that I cannot be tempted to buy one. For 95,000 more US dollars, I can have a used Ferrari. | |
| Kuzma 4Point Tri-Planar Doug, Just now after responding to Mike I read your two posts above mine. So the issue is what is the coefficient of energy transfer between the piece of metal (which appears to be brass) and the wood arm tube? Since Durand undoubtedly used a "har... | |
| Kuzma 4Point Tri-Planar Hi Mike, My remarks to Doug were merely meant to indicate that there is some question in my mind whether the cartridge vibrations have an unimpeded path into the wood arm tube in the first place. If the mechanical energy put out by the cartridge c... | |
| Graham Phantom Supreme? Thanks for that short review, Syntax. I take it from your remarks that you are using the 9-inch arm wand right now. Dertonearm said or implied that you also do own the 12-inch. I am thinking about the 10-inch..... | |
| Phono Pre-amp with XLR What would be more frightening is if you encounter another male dressed as a female XLR. That would be decidedly unbalanced. | |
| TW-Acustic Raven 10.5 or DaVinci Grandezza?? Dear DT, After all the times I wrote my contrary opinion and all the times you seemed to agree with me, are you saying once again that you can tell by visual inspection of a cartridge that it will have "perfect" azimuth, i.e., that 90 degrees of a... | |
| Phono Pre-amp with XLR Tdaudio, If you read Ralph's (Atma-sphere) post and then read mine from yesterday, you will find a remarkable confluence. I have been using an MP1 for about 14 years now. I think some balanced phono stages offer RCA phono inputs because, as Ralph ... | |
| TW-Acustic Raven 10.5 or DaVinci Grandezza?? Dear Rockitman,If you want to use your own tools to adjust for azimuth, I do not think it is as simple as Dertonearm implies. You also need a pure test tone on an LP (usually 1kHz will suffice, but if you are fanatical you could use more than one ... | |
| TW-Acustic Raven 10.5 or DaVinci Grandezza?? Dertonearm, I guess it is fair to say that misinformed persons might play with azimuth to correct channel imbalance, but one hopes such persons would soon learn the folly of their ways. As to your second statement, I don't often look at styli with... | |
| TW-Acustic Raven 10.5 or DaVinci Grandezza?? Dear DT, Adjusting azimuth is not the best way to deal with channel imbalance that you describe in your example. Azimuth has very little effect on channel balance. Azimuth affects crosstalk, of the L channel signal into the R channel and vice-vers... | |
| TW-Acustic Raven 10.5 or DaVinci Grandezza?? Sorry, should have written "including he", not "including him" in the second paragraph above. | |
| TW-Acustic Raven 10.5 or DaVinci Grandezza?? Someone somewhere wrote of the DaVinci that lack of azimuth adjustment made for a simplified construction and in part could account for the perceived superb sound quality. And I think there may be some truth in that. The add-on mechanisms required... |