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| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Don, What the heck is a "refresh"? Raul really has not defined it clearly. I hope he will comment further.In general, does it surprise anyone that a new cantilever/stylus, which must also include a new suspension (or a "refresh") would be an ... | |
| Turntable speed accuracy Dev, Just read what Dertonearm is asking that bearing to do. (Did you take note of the 110-lb platter?) Then imagine the special tooling and labor required to make the bearing in very small numbers. Then you will understand the cost. Based on typi... | |
| Turntable speed accuracy I found a website where the owner installed a Papst motor in his Thorens TD124 and compared its performance to that of the turntable with its original motor. He liked the musical "drive" with the Papst but preferred the Thorens motor for its lower... | |
| Turntable speed accuracy I owned a Sota Star Sapphire III with vacuum for many years. It was eclipsed handily by my Nottingham Hyperspace, which revealed to me that piano music does not have to have the wavering pitch that I always heard with the Sota. In fairness, the la... | |
| Turntable speed accuracy There are also crappy bearings in turntables both old and new.As a lover of vintage turntables for perhaps irrational reasons, I want to agree with you, Thuchan, but a modern machinist would probably tell us that with the digitally controlled cutt... | |
| Sirius and Walker Dear Dan, That is an admirable goal, but I am afraid it just does not work that way. Your only path to finding out what is "right" for you is to sample some good equipment in your own home, in your own system, and for a prolonged period of auditio... | |
| Turntable speed accuracy I think you have it a bit backwards. Generally the motor chosen is related to the intended drive system. Plus there is a time-related effect. With regard to my first point, direct-drive motors pretty much must use some speed corrective mechanism, ... | |
| Turntable speed accuracy What turntable? | |
| Some tables have soul and some not Dear Rok2id, Please "put a sock in it". You are quite right on only one thing: your political and religious opinions are way inappropriate on this thread, not to say also regrettable in many ways. If you keep up in this vein, we might find out jus... | |
| Turntable speed accuracy "A turntable needs the right speed, knowledge to make the area of the needle silent and a solution to remove the energy from the tracking." Amen. Very Zen. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Raul, Those small(er) MBLs must have been the ones I subsequently heard at RMAF in 2010. I agree; that was a very nice sounding system, one of my favorites at the show. And Dobbins proved to be a very nice guy. I listened to two cartridges, each m... | |
| Shielded phono cables With a balanced connection between cartridge and phono input, I have never had hum and I never noticed any sonic degradation from using shielded cables (which I routinely do use). These could both be virtues of the balanced connection to a balance... | |
| Turntable speed accuracy Dover, Cannot fairly answer any of those questions yet. I love them all in different ways, at this moment. With the Lenco, you want to root for it, because it is relatively inexpensive. If I thought I could live with only the Lenco, I could sell t... | |
| What's the best unipivot to arm ever made? Having the center of mass of the counter-wt in the plane of the LP is said to result in less variation of VTF as the tonearm traverses a warp, or, I suppose, the normal vertical undulations imparted via the groove modulations. (But those vertical ... | |
| Turntable speed accuracy Hiho, FWIW, I use a 2nd generation PTP. As you know, it has provision for sliding the idler wheel without removing the platter; one is supposed to leave the two bolts under the platter slightly loose and tighten down only the one that is visible a... |