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| Turntable speed accuracy Davide256, With all due respect, you are wrong. Linn is OK right after the suspension is tuned and for the next week thereafter. AR and SOTA, up to and perhaps not including their very latest TOTL models, are seriously flawed as regards speed stab... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Raul, I am still hoping for your advice on whether to have my used M312 stylus rebuilt and by whom (vdH vs Alex). That is another way of asking whether you think such a chimera is likely to outperform my bone stock NOS LPM320STRIII, which is ... | |
| Whest P.30R, P.30RDT and P.30RDT SE Dcarol, One might well have more than one cartridge or even more than one tonearm with one or more cartridges. On a certain evening or for a certain LP, one might be in the mood for one cartridge/tonearm combo vs another. It would indeed be nice t... | |
| Turntable speed accuracy Dear Ct, Always glad when I can "clarify" something for you, but who can imagine 500 tonearms sitting on one LP? Now that takes some fantasizing. Thanks, Tim, for bringing up that very simple metaphor.Downunder, if the battery in the Timeline is r... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Raul, The only thing I would say for sure re your evaluation of the 420 is that it is specious to arrive at general conclusions based on only one sample, for a cartridge that is now 25-30 years old. It could be that yours has stiffened up mor... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Raul, The only thing I would say for sure re your evaluation of the 420 is that it is specious to arrive at general conclusions based on only one sample, for a cartridge that is now 25-30 years old. It could be that yours has stiffened up mor... | |
| Turntable speed accuracy Since Dertonearm did this to me once, when I erroneously attributed the phrase "one man's meat is another man's poison" to Shakespeare, I will now point out that Shakespeare is the oft-cited source for the quote "love is blind" (from The Merchant ... | |
| is it time to mention tonearm's length again? When you say "traction", do you mean "tracking" (the ability of the cartridge to stay in the groove during difficult musical moments) or "friction" (force generated by stylus tip traveling in the groove that is counter to the rotation of the platt... | |
| Turntable speed accuracy Ct, Altho I am currently a partisan of direct- and idler-drive turntables, I would nevertheless take those data you quoted (0% speed deviation at 5 kg.cm) with a grain of salt. The Technics uses a servo to keep speed stable, but a servo is not per... | |
| Grounded Power Cord for Turntable - why not?? Just make sure SOMETHING is directly connected to your house ground. Typically that can be the preamp, if everything else is connected to the preamp. | |
| Turntable speed accuracy Davide256, everything you write is so obvious and logical, yet wrong as regards points one and two. Point 3 does count for a lot too, I grant you.People who don't like direct drive generally make the same point you have made re "isolation". Usuall... | |
| Jelco tonearm for Colibri Gold LW cartridge Sorry for the pedantry, but both static and dynamic compliance could be specified with units in "Micron/mN" or "cm/dyne". They are equivalent units. (micron = .0001 cm; dyne = .01 mN.) What's unusual, I think, is that vdH use "Micron/mN" and give ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Nicola, If you refer to bass response, your statement does not apply to the Sound Lab 845PX; believe me. How about transient response to make those cannon shots sound "real"? ESLs do that better than most. (Also, and in parenthesis, the frequ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? I am thankful that I can live without ever hearing the 1812 Overture again. | |
| Parasound JC3 or Ayre P-5xE Jeepers, I am a tube guy, but I owned the Ayre p5Xe for a year or two as a second phono stage, where the primary phono is a tube unit. The last thing I would ever say about the Ayre (used by me only in balanced mode) is that it is "bright". I foun... |