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| Albert Porters after market panzerholz plinths Dear Vertigo,If you wait for a scientific definition of perfection, when it comes to vinyl reproduction, and even when it comes to digital, you will be standing by the side of the road forever. Most of what you wrote is true; but there is still a ... | |
| Albert Porters after market panzerholz plinths Hi Albert,You can see a photo of my SP10 Mk3 slate and hardwood combination plinth on my system site. The wood base is made of solid cherry and baltic birch. Underneath I have mounted a brass block, recessed into the wood base and dead center unde... | |
| Albert Porters after market panzerholz plinths Dear Vertigo,Some days it hardly pays to get out of bed.But I don't think the situation is as hopeless as you paint it, in terms of predicting outcomes. I find that if a "system" (using your definition of the term) affects the sound a certain way ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Slightly OT. If anyone wants to see a photo of my SP10 Mk3, go to my system site. Unfortunately, it appears that only one photo is allowed per piece of gear in a system. Raul or someone asked about photos, which is why I mention it here. | |
| Benz LPS Sounds Bad, Very Bad at 45 RPM What sort of distortion? Can you be more explicit? | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? I confess I love my system, and it definitely does not suck. My system is better than it has ever been, and my hearing acuity is worse than it has ever been. Perhaps this is another definition of audiophile Hell of which I spoke above. What would ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Raul,It would certainly help me, and probably everyone else here, if you could really explain what you are doing, if indeed it is correct to say that you seek lowest possible distortion without regard to highest possible happiness, in designi... | |
| A $300-$400 turntable tweak Just came across this thread. For once, Halcro and I are in agreement. I have never liked the effect of heavy record weights in the first place. Then I got hold of an original optional outer ring weight made by Kenwood 30 years ago for use with th... | |
| EMT 927 vs. Micro Seiki 5000 or 8000 - different? Nandric, I do buy DT's belief system possibly as it relates to belt-drive turntables. I do not believe (and this is nothing but my personal "feeling" based on no data, which makes me just like everyone else) that the massive platter hypothesis nec... | |
| EMT 927 vs. Micro Seiki 5000 or 8000 - different? Oh yes, I forgot that old canard about hearing the servo at work. I guess some can hear something they don't like from certain direct drive turntables and choose to ascribe it to the servo. None of these devices is perfect. Then too, the early dd ... | |
| EMT 927 vs. Micro Seiki 5000 or 8000 - different? Dear Nandric, the VTF seems trivial but when you consider the very tiny area over which that downward force is distributed (the contact between LP and stylus tip), then the force per unit of area is very very large. This is not to say that I don't... | |
| EMT 927 vs. Micro Seiki 5000 or 8000 - different? Dear Dover, "direct drive"? You hear speed instability in a direct drive turntable? All of them or one or two samples? A truly vintage direct drive turntable that has not been serviced can manifest speed instability due to aging capacitors, but th... | |
| Why does the Marantz 10B Tuner sound so amazing ??? I have owned two of them in my audio lifetime and now make do with a Luxman T110. If you don't live in NYC, what good is it to have the world's finest tube tuner? Here in Washington, DC, there is one good FM station with decent quality FM music br... | |
| EMT 927 vs. Micro Seiki 5000 or 8000 - different? Dear Dover and Raul, Dover wrote, " My turntable speed never changes so I only check it once a year or so " I am happy to hear that, but the statement is not relevant to the issue of "belt creep" and does not necessarily mean that there is no vari... | |
| EMT 927 vs. Micro Seiki 5000 or 8000 - different? Hi Win, If you are still out there, did you mean to imply that belt creep does not occur with string drive (or with the use of other materials that presumably do not "stretch")? I thought Mark Kelly's analysis suggested that belt creep in a conven... |