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May 31, 2011	Motor Controller ugrade for Raven One Turntable Dear Blackburn, A Maybach? A Rolls? A Ferrari 599GTB or Italia? What, for $300K? I am a car guy without your kind of bucks, but I was once a very successful Porsche collector (550 Spyder, Carrera GT Speedster, etc). If I had not sold them all, I p...
May 31, 2011	Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Raul, Within the US, isn't Sound Smith also an authorized repair service for B&O? Plus do they not manufacture cartridges sold under the B&O name, if there are any?
May 30, 2011	Albert Porters after market panzerholz plinths Which obsidian plinth? I think there were at least two different ones made by Technics for the Mk2. The heavier of the two is likely to be not at all bad, perhaps only a notch below Albert's plinth or a good slate plinth or anyone else's personal ...
May 30, 2011	Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Thuchan, When I contemplate what my poor wife has to put up with, I cannot wonder at the condition of post-marital sex.
May 30, 2011	Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Raul and Dave,(1) The Reed tonearm and the MP1 phono inputs are within physical reach of each other using 3-ft interconnects, which is why I linked use of the Reed to use of the MP1. Plus the Reed has XLR connectors and the MP1 has XLR inputs...
May 29, 2011	Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Raul, What is the effective mass of your Grace tonearm? Due to the relatively low output of the MMC1, I will want to feed its output directly into the MC stage of my Atma-sphere MP1, as I do for the Stanton 980LZS, which means the MMC1 could ride ...
May 29, 2011	Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Timeltel, My Irish friend tells me that an Irish seven course dinner consists of a 6-pack of beer and a potato.So the MMC20CL will not work in the MMC1 adapter? Too bad.
May 28, 2011	Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Raul, You are a piece of work. Thank you for raising the value of my NOS B&O MMC1. I probably should not use it at all, because that would lower the value. I think I paid $600 for mine; that was the most money I spent on any of these MM/MI exa...
May 28, 2011	Motor Controller ugrade for Raven One Turntable That's a pretty cool set-up, Syntax. Clearly you have studied at the feet of Dertonearm, at the school of two motors.
May 28, 2011	Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? My MMC1 comes with its own special adapter, I now know. Good thing, too. The unusual arrangement of the pins at the rear of the MMC1 make it unusable with a standard adapter. Ergo, that one on eBay that you just cited, Raul, may not be so desirabl...
May 28, 2011	Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Thanks for the tip on Soundsmith for an adapter. MM20CL sure looks like a Pmount sitting in its case, to me. Cripes, I haven't looked at the MMC1 in so long, I have forgotten what came with it; perhaps it has an adapter included. Mine is in origin...
May 27, 2011	Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Timel, Reading your excellent description of the sound of the MMC4, I got an eery feeling for the sound of those vintage straight-line B&O tts with B&O cartridges. (I have no idea what cartridges I was hearing in those days.) A very p...
May 27, 2011	Motor Controller ugrade for Raven One Turntable Syntax, Sorry about that. I did notice that you recommended VPI MOTOR plus SDS the first time around (yesterday), but I obviously could not retain such complex information in my pretty little audiophile head whilst composing my last post. Someone ...
May 27, 2011	Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Fact is, I cannot remember what I paid for any of the MM and MI cartridges I bought in the last 2 years or so. It's all a blur. I can ballpark it at best. As in, I paid "a lot" for my NOS B&O MMC1. I paid "a little" for my Acutex. One conclusi...
May 27, 2011	Motor Controller ugrade for Raven One Turntable Dear Syntax,However, your comment about replacing the Raven controller with the VPI SDS was ill-advised. I am not familiar with any of the Raven turntables, but someone on the other newer "motor controller" thread has remarked that the Raven motor...