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| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dertonearm, Nice to know you might have been an admirer of my Grado TLZ. It was my one and only cartridge during the mid to late 80s. Over the years, I kept it in storage while I was preoccupied with a variety of high output MCs and finally low ou... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? I don't pretend to have a lot of technical expertise about how cartridges work, except on a basic level. But here is a quote from M Fremer, from his review of a SoundSmith cartridge:"Moving-iron designs such as the SMMC1, or the Grados, use statio... | |
| Nottingham spacedeck motor - driving me crazy Thanks, Rob. You are most likely correct. Fletcher's idea of how to use the motor was closely allied to that of Lloyd Walker, except Lloyd uses a much heavier platter than did any of Tom's designs (well, never saw an AnnaLog or a Dias in the flesh... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Dertonearm, To elaborate on what I think T_bone was getting at, of the 3 basic types of cartridge, MM, MI, and MC, the MI type will tend to have the lowest moving mass, not the MC type. This is a matter of fact as told to me by Peter Lederman... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Raul, Who is pushing you to talk about FR tonearms? I don't even have an opinion yet about mine. I am trying to talk about your dogmatism regarding your equipment choices. It's OK to love what you have chosen to own, but that does not make everyon... | |
| 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... |