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| EMT 927 vs. Micro Seiki 5000 or 8000 - different? Dear Nandric, the VTF seems trivial but when you consider the very tiny area over which that downward force is distributed (the contact between LP and stylus tip), then the force per unit of area is very very large. This is not to say that I don't... | |
| EMT 927 vs. Micro Seiki 5000 or 8000 - different? Dear Dover, "direct drive"? You hear speed instability in a direct drive turntable? All of them or one or two samples? A truly vintage direct drive turntable that has not been serviced can manifest speed instability due to aging capacitors, but th... | |
| Why does the Marantz 10B Tuner sound so amazing ??? I have owned two of them in my audio lifetime and now make do with a Luxman T110. If you don't live in NYC, what good is it to have the world's finest tube tuner? Here in Washington, DC, there is one good FM station with decent quality FM music br... | |
| EMT 927 vs. Micro Seiki 5000 or 8000 - different? Dear Dover and Raul, Dover wrote, " My turntable speed never changes so I only check it once a year or so " I am happy to hear that, but the statement is not relevant to the issue of "belt creep" and does not necessarily mean that there is no vari... | |
| EMT 927 vs. Micro Seiki 5000 or 8000 - different? Hi Win, If you are still out there, did you mean to imply that belt creep does not occur with string drive (or with the use of other materials that presumably do not "stretch")? I thought Mark Kelly's analysis suggested that belt creep in a conven... | |
| Micro Max 282 vs. Exclusive EA-10 DT, Until today I had not read your reply to my post. You write, "the silver litz in the Ikeda is not isolated from each other". If by this you mean to say that the individual strands in the wire are not insulated from one another, then the Ikeda ... | |
| Top 3 high compliant mm/mi cartridges Dear Nandric, My memory for the cause may be faulty, but it is demonstrably true that many of the AKG cartridges that come up for sale on eBay are described as "one channel is dead" or "dead but stylus is good". A faulty stylus assembly should not... | |
| Top 3 high compliant mm/mi cartridges Nandric et al, I thought the issue with the AKG P8ES had something to do with the fragility of the wiring in the body of the cartridge, which is why there are so many of them out there with "one dead channel". This problem could not/would not be f... | |
| EMT 927 vs. Micro Seiki 5000 or 8000 - different? Does anyone know what is so special about the big M-S turntables, apart from their obvious build quality, which can after all be matched by several of today's high end belt drive turntables? They seem to use an inverted bearing; is there anything ... | |
| Micro Max 282 vs. Exclusive EA-10 Dear DT, I really have no set opinion on wiring, except that I favor either pure copper OR pure silver (vs silver-plated copper or other combinations), and I favor very thin gauge solid core wire or a ribbon vs stranded wire. Litz is not "stranded... | |
| Uni-Protractor Set tonearm alignment Dear Dertonearm,I have not been following this thread, but as you know, I have a Uni on order. Please tell me, can the basic Uni that I will be receiving, without any of the extra and extra-cost items you are about to introduce, accurately cite th... | |
| Record weights 'n clamps: Audible improvements ? I think the value of a record weight will depend upon (1) the state of one's LPs, if one is using the weight to flatten them, (2) one's personal taste in listening (I like a "lively" sound, myself), (3) platter material, (4) turntable type (belt v... | |
| Schroder sq and the new talea Thom, Back in November of 2010, did you really mean to say that one would lose a lot of hair, needlessly, or that hair is not needed? As a hair-impaired person, I would tend to disagree with the latter proposition; I really miss my hair and do fee... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? The formal scientific definition of "synergy" is to say that the sum of the effect of changing two or more variables is greater than what could be expected from adding up their individual effects. If 1+1=2, that is an "additive" effect. If 1+1 = m... | |
| Top 3 high compliant mm/mi cartridges Nagaoka MP50/500 are said to be excellent and are readily available. (MP500 is current production, I think.)Ortofon M20FL Super and M20E Super are still available NOS.Who is to say that some of the current production MM and MI cartridges are not e... |