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| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Henry, Both knees at once? You definitely do deserve a sponge bath from a "private duty" nurse.Raul, I am sorry to have made that crack about your need to feel superior, but you must know it is very aggravating to discuss these matters with you, b... | |
| Nottingham spacedeck motor - driving me crazy As you may know, that motor is never "off". The push you give to the platter seems to engage some sort of clutch to then drive the platter properly. My guess is that there is some critical loss of torque for some reason, such that the motor cannot... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Thanks, Fleib, The other factor, which I have mentioned before, is the accuracy of the data we are given for tonearm effective mass and for cartridge compliance. We never know how fastidious tonearm makers are about calculating the figures that th... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Raul, Spare me, please. I have not even had time to listen to music for a week, and you want me to spend my tiny amount of spare time re-fitting a dd turntable and building an outboard arm pod, so I can test YOUR theory to which I do not ascr... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? It would seem to me (without of course my having done any work to investigate it) that a resonant frequency higher than 10 Hz might be more problematic than a resonant frequency less than 10 Hz, for example the 4 and 5Hz figures that some mentione... | |
| Tri-Planar with no anti-skate? Dear Glai, If you are asking me, try searching the Vinyl Asylum for discussions of skating force. Some pretty knowledgeable guys used to post on these topics, altho of late (the last year or two) most threads are about trivia. Or, try Google.AFAIK... | |
| Tri-Planar with no anti-skate? Dear Glai, You wrote:"Consider a linear tracking arm which the headshell is not at an offset. For your statement to be true, there would mean no skating force and maximum tracking error. How could that be?"My response is... What? My statement IS t... | |
| Tri-Planar with no anti-skate? Glai, I guess I failed to express myself properly. When VTF goes up, skating force goes up (not down, which in my parlance would be an "inverse" relationship). Likewise, when VTF is decreased, skating force will decrease. This is on average, acros... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Hi Dertonearm, Is it the very low bearing friction of the FR tonearms? That might be a factor with high compliance MMs. | |
| Tri-Planar with no anti-skate? (1) All I'm saying is skating force is proportional to VTF. The word "proportional" in a mathematical term only means that they increase or decrease in relation to one another, which relationship may not be perfectly linear. (2) Just about any ton... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? FWIW, you can mount a second tonearm on the Kenwood L07D. There is a bolt-on platform at the rear for that. The L07D was sold with a blank platform that can be drilled to accommodate a wide variety of 9- or 10-inch tonearms. Plus, Kenwood made at ... | |
| Tri-Planar with no anti-skate? Found this quote on Audiokharma, from someone named "Marcmorin":"...the higher the friction of the stylus in the groove the MORE skating will occur. Groove friction is the driving force behind the skating behavior. The mathematical derivations sho... | |
| Tri-Planar with no anti-skate? I am with Glai. On my Triplanar with a Koetsu Urushi, the sound is very problematic with zero anti-skate. (But I have not removed the device from the tonearm, so I cannot comment on the putative benefits of doing that per se.) With AS set to zero,... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? I really do enjoy all you guys, and I do apologize for over-apologizing AND for any unintended insults to Pierre Lurne'. We have been navigating a very delicate situation with our mentally-ill son. This may have caused me to over-post and to perse... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Nandric and Fleib, This here is a "chat" group. I am not a reviewer, and this is not Stereophile or TAS. There are so many unscientific, unsubstantiated, and "unfair" opinions stated on Audiogon discussion groups that we could throw out the w... |