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| Where is the next generation of direct drive? Hiho,I too read that paragraph from Art Dudley, and it soured me on his opinions. For a guy who favors vintage or vintage-sounding equipment in general, and who otherwise writes so well, I thought it was inexcusable. For Pete's sake, he uses a TD1... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Fleib, The phenomenon you refer to I think of as an analog to "intermodulation distortion" in audio equipment. I definitely have a diminished capacity to hear a single voice speaking to me when there is background cacophony.Dear Nandric, 12kH... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Raul, Henry's response and others have prompted me to ask this question, finally and with due respect. How, indeed, have you obtained your training in listening to an audio system? The one thing I fear as I grow older (other than all the othe... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Henry, Nice word, "furphy". But I think you defined it incorrectly, even though it is of Australian origin. The on-line dictionaries all define it as "an unsubstantiated rumor". You defined it as follows: " 'furphy'....unable to be substatiat... | |
| Where is the next generation of direct drive? Hammy, Your quote about motor noise in a dd turntable shows that you do not understand the mechanism. You should read Hiho's post above, as well as a few others that came after yours. A motor consists of a rotor and a stator. In a dd turntable, th... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear David, How are you measuring compliance? Thx. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Sorry to learn of your terrible experience with Bluz Broz. They also are less than honest about the provenance of their Acutex styli. It seems it would be fair to say openly that none of us should do business with them in future. I wonder whether ... | |
| What defines a good tonearm Yes, Franz. The tonearm is like the bumblebee. All logic says neither can fly, but both do. I would take issue with several of your presumptions in this last post, but I am too tired.... OK, one thing: do not waste your affection on a particular t... | |
| Stand out phono stages Check Audiogon for sale ads. You're already here, so why not? I think the FM122 (maybe the same unit each time) is regularly available used for $7000. Were it not so expensive, I might have bought one myself by now. The adjustability is very allur... | |
| Mint LP a no go – now what? I haven't read this whole thread and probably won't, but Johnbrown you might try the Stevenson alignment with your SAEC. That works best with my Dynavector DV505 and many of the vintage Japanese tonearms were designed with Stevenson in mind. There... | |
| What defines a good tonearm I think we have converted a thread about what defines a good tonearm to a thread about what tonearms we like. It was a natural and unavoidable evolution. But then, we all agree there is no "best" tonearm to the exclusion of all others.Raul, you ac... | |
| What defines a good tonearm Dear Mike, Did you actually hear a difference between a Reed 2A and a Reed 2P? I thought the only difference between those two was the fine-ness of the VTA adjustment up and down.Syntax, Thanks for the humor break. That is one of my favorite Monte... | |
| What defines a good tonearm Halcro, You wrote, "Sounds like you are buying Raul's claim that anything which sounds good must be attributed to 'distortions'?"In a word, no. Please don't re-interpret what I wrote. Further, IMO you are not even giving Raul's ideas a fair interp... | |
| Grace F-9 I think what people are trying to tell you is that the difference between 3.5mV output and 5.5mV output is not going to make or break the match with the gain of your preamp. If your preamp works with only 3.5mV in, it will work fine with 5.5mV, an... | |
| Reed tonearm w/ Raven One table-how's the match ? Dear Vertigo, I don't think there is any such thing as "perfect" azimuth adjustment, so doing it by ear is as good as any other way, IMO. How would you define perfect azimuth adjustment, in electrical terms? |