lewm
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| Tri-Planar with no anti-skate? I am with Glai. On my Triplanar with a Koetsu Urushi, the sound is very problematic with zero anti-skate. (But I have not removed the device from the tonearm, so I cannot comment on the putative benefits of doing that per se.) With AS set to zero,... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? I really do enjoy all you guys, and I do apologize for over-apologizing AND for any unintended insults to Pierre Lurne'. We have been navigating a very delicate situation with our mentally-ill son. This may have caused me to over-post and to perse... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Nandric and Fleib, This here is a "chat" group. I am not a reviewer, and this is not Stereophile or TAS. There are so many unscientific, unsubstantiated, and "unfair" opinions stated on Audiogon discussion groups that we could throw out the w... | |
| Phono preamp comparison: Herron vs. K&K I would rather say, "No matter how good it sounds, it can always sound different". | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Fleib,I don't know whether the word "fair" applies. I just gave my opinion and qualified it so as not to include his more recent designs. For example, it would not be unfair for you to say I am balding. I tried to be fair, in fact, in the sen... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Fleib, You are quite correct, I am ignorant of the 3 turntables you mentioned, but I only commented on one model of one of those 3 brands that I listened to at least 15-20 years ago. I listened long enough and often enough to that one particu... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Fleib, I did not know that Mr. Lurne' founded a school. I do know that I heard one of his early turntable efforts that had a spring suspension, and I thought it was a very bad sounding, over-priced product. Possibly his later efforts have bee... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? I must must hear an Olympos. It is such a revered cartridge, and by people who have everything and have heard everything. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dave, I think the latest fracas is about how one selects one's components downstream from the phono cartridge, be it MM or MC or ceramic, even. As you know, I keep some good MC cartridges around as a reference. But even so, I am far from drawing a... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Raul,Since it is OK for you to rather harshly dismiss Thuchan's phono stage, and indeed his entire downstream amplification chain, and since it was OK for you to categorically dismiss vacuum tubes as a way to amplify music, I hope you will ta... | |
| SME 20/3 or Oracle Delphi VI or Garrard 301 Congrats, Maudidj. Making a decision with all the choices available and very little data is difficult. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Fleib, Empirically, I would recommend against the ERS cloth and in favor of the TI Shield. For one thing, ERS cloth can be kind of lumpy; the platter sheet might not sit perfectly level on it. For another, the ERS cloth would tend to decouple... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? No. I've got a full-up L07D cum L07J tonearm that I like very much, not just the tonearm. I found that the table itself sounded much better after I installed an EMI/RFI shield under the platter mat (termed a "platter sheet" by Kenwood). I used TI ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Fleib, I assume then that you own a 980LZS. Yes? I am listening to mine in the L07J tonearm which is the installed tonearm on the Kenwood L07D turntable. It does sound a bit reticent in the highs, but I cannot tell whether that might be due t... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? And where are Kierkegaard and Sartre in all this? Those are my guys. |