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| Turntable speed accuracy Dear Dover, The statement you "struggle" with is really most applicable to belt-drive turntables, where the two paradigms are most obvious. Compare the Walker Proscenium or any Nottingham (weak motor/big platter school) to an SME or an Avid turnta... | |
| Turntable speed accuracy Hiho, There is much ignorance among us as to how the servo system of this or that direct-drive turntable actually works. From my casual observation, they are not all the same, by any means. But from a Newtonian point of view, max torque is only ev... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Raul may have a point, vis a vis carbon fiber tonearms. I have not heard any of the old timers. But I have heard the Well Tempered Reference tonearm, which I believe to be made of carbon fiber...... very very very dead. But also over damped with a... | |
| TriPlanar Tips 1kitch, We are neighbors; I live in Bethesda, on the West side near the river. I take your point that sometimes isolating screws with plumber's tape might be beneficial, sometimes not. I am in awe of you if you can handle the tiny pieces of p.t. n... | |
| What's a 30-year old Grace F9-E Ruby worth? Thanks, Al. You made me feel better about my moment of weakness. It's arrived here and does appear to be in condition as advertised, at least by gross inspection. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Nikola, It is my subjective opinion, yes, that carbon fiber does not make "music". This is based on listening to carbon fiber tonearms, platters and platter mats, loudspeakers, etc, over my audio lifetime. Possibly also including cartridge bo... | |
| Turntable speed accuracy Dear Swampy, Halcro may be trying to tell you that we have covered the territory of your query, and "we" tend to agree with you, I think. I certainly do. | |
| What's a 30-year old Grace F9-E Ruby worth? OK. I confess. After a year of cartridge-buying abstinence, I just bought a Grace Ruby for $500. I don't know whether I overpaid or not. But, in mint condition in the original box, they don't exactly grow on trees, as my mom used to say. Once you ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Any and all audio gear made of carbon fiber that I have ever heard sounds... dead, dead, dead, IMO. Resonance is in music. All instruments resonate. The human voice resonates. Killing all resonance is not a good thing, IME. We just need to make it... | |
| Turntable speed accuracy I vote a moratorium on these endless circular arguments over the merits and demerits of this or that drive mechanism. Lets just see how various ones of them work according to Timeline. But in general, a good direct-drive motor WiLL have more torqu... | |
| Sirius and Walker Dear Unoear, I have no dog in this fight, but do I correctly understand the following?(1) You went to Mike's home and listened to the Sirius prior to purchase.(2) You evidently liked what you heard, because you then bought it from Mike.(3) You wer... | |
| Turntable speed accuracy Actually, since the Timeline is sitting on the spindle, and cannot fit completely over the spindle on a Lenco, which has a "fat"spindle, slippage of the LP would have no direct effect on the Timeline, in my particular report above. The Timeline is... | |
| Turntable speed accuracy I've got the Timeline in house.On the Lenco, with AC supplied through the Walker Motor Controller, speed set by the KAB with an LP in play, and listening tests suggesting that rhythm and pitch are like real life, the Timeline says my Lenco is a to... | |
| Turntable speed accuracy Dear Tony,You wrote, "the laser mark should drift slowly in one direction over the 30 minutes. That is the cumulative error" Yes and no. Yes, the drift of the Timeline laser over time is the cumulative error, but no (IMO), the laser may not drift ... | |
| Turntable speed accuracy Should have read Tony's post before writing the above post. I think the amount of error and the type of error Tony describes should be perfectly acceptable. It is a linear error; in other words it would be the result of the platter spinning a teen... |