lewm
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| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Was my dream too, in college, to become Dostoyevski. In medical school, I lived in a basement apartment by myself, in the Bronx (blue collar part of New York City). I hated medical school in that year of my life, but I did not wish to go to Vietna... | |
| Has anybody tried the Reed 3P? I agree with Geoch on the issue of azimuth adjustment. I really like the Reed tonearms that rotate the headshell but not the arm tube. Geoch (and Nikola), are you saying that the 3P now adjusts azimuth by rotation of the arm tube? Does Vidimantas ... | |
| Vocals sound slightly high pitched? Anti-skate affects pitch??? | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? I was feeling bad for perhaps being too harsh, Nikola, but your responses were great fun to read. So thanks for your sense of humor, Balkan or otherwise. FWIW, I do not much care for parts swapping. I take much more pride in thinking up ways to ch... | |
| Vocals sound slightly high pitched? Dear Toxic, At this point, I would go ahead and check the speed with a strobe device. There are websites where you can download one for free, but you will need to print out on a 1:1 scale. Let us know whether you can confirm that your DP300F is ru... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Nikola, I must take issue with your last post. You do have a tendency to side with audio "authority" in most cases, and here you have done it again. I assure you it is quite possible to make real and meaningful improvements in analog electron... | |
| Vocals sound slightly high pitched? Just because the turntable sounds obviously way too fast when you set it on 45 (the presumptive "other speed"), does not at all mean that it cannot be running slightly fast at the 33 setting. You should check speed with a strobe device; there are ... | |
| "Making Mono" for checking Azimuth The aforementioned guru does in fact use an SME V tonearm. Funny how that works. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Me and Hannibal Lecter. I am flattered; I think. I don't much care for liver, however, fava beans or no fava beans. | |
| "Making Mono" for checking Azimuth In contrast, I know of a guru who claims that if your optimal azimuth is more than 2 degrees off vertical, you should send your cartridge back to the maker as defective. I do not agree, but he is quite adamant that in most cases azimuth adjust is ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dave Garretson and I went down the road of modifying our Atma-sphere MP1 preamps together. At first, I taught him a thing or two, but he has been flying on his own for some time. His workmanship is exceptional, really professional, far superior to... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Larry, Now I think of it, I do believe I have seen other posts of yours re the Beveridge speakers. In fact, I had counted you as a big fan when I was making my buying decision. (We may even have spoken on the phone.) They are purely an interesting... | |
| Has anybody tried the Reed 3P? Nikola, What's a "magnetic Reed"? | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? I don't suppose you've read Nikola's posts wherein he has censured me for having a pair of Beveridge 2SWs in my basement that I am not using. (I want to rebuild the amplifiers first.) Personally, I consider the language available to us to describe... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Lawrence, You made a statement suggesting that your system had the capability to re-create something approaching the sound of live music in your home. Along the way you intimated that most of the rest of us fall short in that area (despite th... |