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| Turntable speed accuracy I am with you in this dilemma, which is why I hate the word "neutral" when used to describe an audio product. It can have any meaning that the user wishes it to have. One meaningful way to use it would be to say that "I have heard this or that LP ... | |
| Rockport Sirius III & Micro Seiki 8000 comparison Re: the putative new Micro-Seiki. For a vinyl equipment-phile (note I did not say "audiophile" or "vinylphile") that thing has the appeal of waking up after a hard night partying to find a Ferrari 458 Italia in your driveway and then remembering t... | |
| The greatest MM and MI cartridges .... OK. Here's a vote for the Pickering XSVs. I've got both a 3000 and a 5000. Stanton 981LZS is my fave of the Pickering/Stanton group. | |
| Turntable speed accuracy Dear Thuchan, Please do not jump, but isn't the answer to your question obvious? If the 3 tt's sound different, then they are introducing different "colorations". Or possibly one is "neutral" and the other two are introducing colorations. No matte... | |
| Need advise on Oscilloscope No (AVS) and no (Sunny). Azimuth adjustment is not about output per channel. It is about crosstalk. Although you can in theory at least use a 'scope to do azimuth, it is more complex than you might think (first you normalize the output of one chan... | |
| Turntable speed accuracy Thanks, Tony, for introducing some science to the foregoing discussion. I know I am going to sound like one of Syntax's "fanboys", but I have been listening to my Technics SP10 Mk3 for the first time in extensive sessions over this past weekend. A... | |
| Need advise on Oscilloscope Many/most scopes have a built-in calibrator.But how would you use a 'scope to reach your stated goals? | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Thanks, Nandric. Also, to Raul, I apologize for being a bit aggressive re the bit about "today standards". Since most of my vintage cartridges are NOS, even though they were "New" about 3 decades ago, I would think I have little to gain with a re-... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Raul,I hate to be a pest, but you wrote, "We have to take in count that when you send a cartridge to VDH or Axel or any other source they not only change the cantilever and stylus to today standards but put the cartridge suspension right on t... | |
| Turntable speed accuracy Thanks, Hiho. I am heartened that SOTA fixed that problem. For years with the SOTA Star Sapphire, i thought pitch inaccuracy on piano was normal for LPs. (It replaced a TD125 way back in the early 80s, but I have no recollection of the sound of th... | |
| Rockport Sirius III & Micro Seiki 8000 comparison Unoear, Very nice system. Can that little Lamm amplifier (but not Mary's) really drive those Wilsons adequately? (I see that the Alexandras are rated 94db efficiency, which is good, but nominal impedance is ca 4 ohms, which is bad, as far as the L... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? But if you buy a Virtuoso, it has to be exactly the right type, with the black wood body, or is it the reddish brown one? And then you have to have it re-tipped by someone; I forget whom, either vdH or the eponymous "Axel".Yes, I too am interested... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Don, If you are that concerned about Raul's scoring system, I don't know how you can sleep at night. In the end, your own opinion of how each cartridge sounds on your own turntables, mounted on your own tonearms is ALL that counts. I use Raul... | |
| Turntable speed accuracy "After living with it from '96 till today, I can say that it is not to my liking."Dear Geoch, After reading the line I have pasted above this one, I would have to say that 15 years of suffering gives you the right to criticize. Now you can get rid... | |
| Turntable speed accuracy Dear Hiho, I am trying to understand your post on SOTA. Do you mean to say that the Cosmos is subject to M Fremer's critique (motor mounted to base/platter on spring suspension, which is also my criticism), or not? Most users seem to like the Cosm... |