lewm
Responses from lewm
| Stand out phono stages Check Audiogon for sale ads. You're already here, so why not? I think the FM122 (maybe the same unit each time) is regularly available used for $7000. Were it not so expensive, I might have bought one myself by now. The adjustability is very allur... | |
| Mint LP a no go – now what? I haven't read this whole thread and probably won't, but Johnbrown you might try the Stevenson alignment with your SAEC. That works best with my Dynavector DV505 and many of the vintage Japanese tonearms were designed with Stevenson in mind. There... | |
| What defines a good tonearm I think we have converted a thread about what defines a good tonearm to a thread about what tonearms we like. It was a natural and unavoidable evolution. But then, we all agree there is no "best" tonearm to the exclusion of all others.Raul, you ac... | |
| What defines a good tonearm Dear Mike, Did you actually hear a difference between a Reed 2A and a Reed 2P? I thought the only difference between those two was the fine-ness of the VTA adjustment up and down.Syntax, Thanks for the humor break. That is one of my favorite Monte... | |
| What defines a good tonearm Halcro, You wrote, "Sounds like you are buying Raul's claim that anything which sounds good must be attributed to 'distortions'?"In a word, no. Please don't re-interpret what I wrote. Further, IMO you are not even giving Raul's ideas a fair interp... | |
| Grace F-9 I think what people are trying to tell you is that the difference between 3.5mV output and 5.5mV output is not going to make or break the match with the gain of your preamp. If your preamp works with only 3.5mV in, it will work fine with 5.5mV, an... | |
| Reed tonearm w/ Raven One table-how's the match ? Dear Vertigo, I don't think there is any such thing as "perfect" azimuth adjustment, so doing it by ear is as good as any other way, IMO. How would you define perfect azimuth adjustment, in electrical terms? | |
| What defines a good tonearm Dear Stevecham, You wrote, "A properly designed unpivot arm does not rock due to stylus tracking simply because the design has the stylus aligned with the pivot point". I completely agree with you, but who said that in the first place? I did not s... | |
| What defines a good tonearm This is a very intelligent, reasoned discussion. It seems we all agree on certain major points as regards the advantages and disadvantages of unipivot designs vs fixed bearing designs. And I like that Hiho mentioned the issue of azimuth adjustment... | |
| Grace F-9 Hi Rich, The Ruby by all accounts is by far the best of the bunch, so maybe you should look for a spare stylus assembly rather than an F9E. I could be wrong. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Dlaloum,So your Pickering would be equivalent, I think, to my Stanton 980LZS vs the HZS version. As I mentioned earlier I was fortunate enough to find an NOS Pickering 7500 stylus to be used eventually to replace the D98S stylus in my Stanton... | |
| EAR 324 vs Einstein The Turntable Choice I think it is "dangerous" to draw conclusions after only a very brief listen to two components, especially when it sounds like you are not being rushed to make a decision. The aphorism "all that glitters is not gold" is applicable to audio compone... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Nandric and Acman, I am a bit disappointed in the integrity of some who sell these unusual items. One company we know about says on their website that "all" their styli are NOS, when we know thanks to others that this is not so, at least for their... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? With regard to Acman's question, I am wondering whether or not there is some double-talk on that eBay ad. The seller is allowing us to think that the elliptical stylus on the cartridge is an original made-by-Nagatronic stylus that was offered as a... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Here it is:http://www.kubotek.com/haniwaaudio/p_cartridge.htmlInternal resistance (shown here as "output impedance") = 0.8 ohms!!!Inductance = 1.3 microhenries!!!! Yes, that's "micro", not "milli", as we are used to seeing for MM cartridges.Yet, o... |