lewm
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| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Raul, All I wrote was that striving for perfect alignment or as near as possible to that goal is similar in nature to your own goals for perfect RIAA equalization and lowest possible measurable THD and IMD, indeed, your whole crusade against "dist... | |
| how important is linestage preamp with vinyls only Sorry. I have no experience with any of those particular tonearms, but I do have a bias (why not?) in favor of the modern SME tonearms over the old SME tonearms, e.g., 309 vs 3009. For tonearms in the $1000 to $2000 price range, I like the Dynavec... | |
| how important is linestage preamp with vinyls only Dear Avs9, You have some top quality cartridges, a really good selection. Pardon my saying so, but the cartridges exceed the capabilities of your two tonearms. A tonearm upgrade might produce more results for you than tube rolling, not to mention ... | |
| SME 20/2 Finger Lift Hum Dear Dover, If you re-read the thread you will see that every single point you made has already been made, and your "theory" has already been proposed. At least you and I and others agree. Insulating the finger-lift has apparently worked to elimin... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Ct0517, Perhaps your advice would hold true if said R2R recorder had a well massaged and upgraded output circuit, but I think the stock circuits of yore add enough new distortions so as to mitigate if not abrogate any other advantages of R2R ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Mike, "The screw a 8 32 i think goes from the arm to the trough." So you would remove that screw entirely if you are going to remove the damping trough. But that would not lighten the arm wand, i.e., it would not reduce tonearm effective mass. (I ... | |
| how important is linestage preamp with vinyls only The linestage provides two functions, if you are using an outboard phono stage. It adds gain. If the output of your phono stage is inadequate to drive your amplifier, that gain is needed. And it adds an attenuator in the signal path and possibly b... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Mike, You wrote, "The only thing that lightens the arm is removing the set screw for damping." Can you elaborate? What set screw? And why did you want to lighten the arm? What really puzzles me is that some perfectly reasonable people, such as you... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? I just set the stock Triplanar AS weight to minimum and forget about it. Doug's obsession with "resonating" parts does not hold water for me. If the AS device and the trough are tightly bolted to the main structure, they cannot add "resonance"; th... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Nandric, Excellent idea. What he does for me or with me is out of friendship and when it is fun or interesting for him. No money changes hands. So I will have to turn the idea into some sort of adventure. I have another, bigger project to tal... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Hi Raul, So, as I was guessing, with the MG10 you just got the overhang as close as possible to perfect without worrying about actual "perfect" based on a protractor. I am sure it works fine to do that. The UNIprotractor tends to make one very ana... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Spent the better part of this evening mounting the Grace Ruby in the Belldream headshell (probably a bit too heavy for optimal) and then aligning it using the complex UNIprotractor. Finally at about midnight I ended up with some tunes, listening t... | |
| SME 20/2 Finger Lift Hum Unless I have completely misunderstood what is going on here (and that is entirely possible), I don't quite understand why you are so exercised over it. If insulating the lift has cured the problem, I especially do not get it. I would think of tha... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear David, Thank you for that list. More of your opinions of relative attributes would also be appreciated. Part of your text answers one of my questions; with those AT MG series headshells, as you note, there seems to be no capacity for fine adj... | |
| Grado reference platnum or Grado statement platnum Don't apologize for your DP62. And don't assume that a mid-level VPI turntable is any better. Properly serviced and in a good plinth, your DP62 is a superb tt. I agree with all the others; it appears you would be best off with the high output vers... |