lewm
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| How important is the tonearm? Dear Davide, You wrote:"As to importance, the tonearm is secondary to the turntable. A spring suspension turntable like Linn or Sota with an entry level tonearm will reveal much more than if you buy a better arm but compromise on a non spring susp... | |
| A Copernican View of the Turntable System Dear Banquo et al, Of course there will be an "improvement" when you go to the bigger feet. This stuff has become so subjective and so uncontrolled (in the scientific sense) that there is a huge placebo effect. If you are prepared to like it, and ... | |
| A Copernican View of the Turntable System Dgob, I went to your "system" to take a look at the photo of the AT feet. I see you have 3 different kinds of AT feet. Which are you using under your SP10? I am guessing it is the largest set, at the rear of the photo. Those smallest AT feet in th... | |
| My Turntable Collection..... I am more embarrassed than proud:Technics SP10 Mk2ATechnics SP10 Mk3Lenco L75Kenwood L07D (x2!)Denon DP80Don't ask about tonearms.Once you start saying to yourself "it's an investment", you are screwed. That's the road to perdition. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Halcro, Yeah, but you have to listen to Pines of Rome for the 10,000th time. That's too high a price to pay for unraveling anything. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Relax. You are not the one who gave the incorrect estimate of Miller effect. I have been stewing on that all day. It just goes to show that my own knowledge is a mile wide and an inch deep and tenuously retained in my brain. I hate giving out bad ... | |
| A Copernican View of the Turntable System Well it would be most interesting to hear from Mr. Panzer plinth. I assume its made of hard wood, not from a 20-ton armored tank.Did I actually write "bronze"? I meant "brass". I have already bought some brass pieces from that company, in order to... | |
| A Copernican View of the Turntable System Pity we did not know enough to find each other at RMAF. Next year all of us need to do a better job of making plans in advance of the event. I went to the Mexican restaurant for the vinylphile meeting on Friday but could not identify anyone to tal... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Timeltel, You said a mouthful. I probably would not hear any of that nuance. I am more than willing to try the other cartridge, if one comes up. However, I am too cynical and perhaps hard of hearing to make such exact statements about any pho... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Jlin, Forgot to consider the gain factor. I think of "Miller" as a reference to the capacitance per se, not the product of Cm times gain. Thanks for pointing out my error in assessing the total capacitance at the input. As to the bit about increas... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Jlin, You wrote, "Triode phono stages typically have 50-150 pf of Miller effect capacitance." That seems VERY high for Miller value for any small signal tube I know about. To check myself, I just looked up Miller capacitance of a 12AX7, a com... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Timeltel, I tried to add this question in editing my post above, but somehow could not add the needed sentences: Have you (or has anyone) tried a Saturn V headshell with your Acutex's? Raul said he thought the cartridge sounded better in the ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Timeltel,I guess my goals are different from yours and some others. Once I find something good, I tend to want to keep it in my system. I am not really in this for the adventure. So I will eventually try the 315, but with some reluctance. Als... | |
| A Copernican View of the Turntable System Talea, too, I think would work on my plinths. | |
| A Copernican View of the Turntable System Dear Thuchan, Not sure I understand just what it is that I might disagree about. I don't feel very contrary about anything except maybe outboard tonearms. As far as mounting two (or more) arms, it's just a matter of allocating enough space surroun... |