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| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Dear MikeyC8, If your platter continues to spin for more than 4 hours after a manual push, see your doctor.Dear Gouldglen, You are quite a gadfly. Win is one of the best guys in the business, and he knows full well that the cost of his masterpiece... | |
| Azimuth and the Fozgometer Yet another audiophile discovers that the mirror can lie. Is that a new wrinkle?But seriously, if you paid the dough for a Triplanar or the like, you are cheating yourself if you don't also set azimuth electronically, at least initially. THEN you ... | |
| EMT turntables as good as other great vintage TT? Dear Jean, Sorry to have mischaracterized your response to the EMT 27/Lenco comparison. I thought myself when I wrote the sentence that the word was not quite accurate. I meant to convey that you were excited to find that the two tables were in th... | |
| Brinkmann Bardo Dear Wjsamx, That has to be the most well controlled and precise comparison of two turntables that I have ever read about. If only audiophile publications would ever do as good a job. In the end, your opinion is subjective, but at least YOU know t... | |
| EMT turntables as good as other great vintage TT? It would be informative if one of you EMT owners could clarify the nomenclature. I know that the 950 is direct-drive and that the 927 and 930 are idlers (or I think that is the case). But where do the others fit in? And what is the accepted gospel... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Sorry that I misunderstood your original post. What you describe does sound like strange behaviour. Perhaps someone else can explain it. But the others have been silent. According to the guy I bought my 4000DIII from, I should have it in a couple ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? It seems to be the general consensus, and I tend to agree, that running a cartridge in a blank band produces phenomena that have nothing to do with skating force or anti-skate. This would be because the stylus needs to be tracking an actual groove... | |
| Koetsu compliance compatibility issues Geoch, You wrote, "So, don't bother. You simply can't trick the formula."But in fact the formula itself is "tricky" and only gives you a ballpark estimate of the resonant frequency, even if your input data are accurate with respect to one's partic... | |
| Koetsu compliance compatibility issues No one is likely to have the breadth of experience described by Syntax. However, my Koetsu Urushi, which seems to be at least a bit higher in compliance than your Black, ran well in my Triplanar (effective mass = 11 gm) but is even better in the K... | |
| EMT turntables as good as other great vintage TT? Baranyi, You have put your finger on a truism. The market value of vintage audio items is a product of two factors: excellence and collectibility. Sometimes it's more about the latter than the former. If you are looking for excellence, you need a ... | |
| EMT turntables as good as other great vintage TT? Just look at the prices for good examples. The 930st, 950, and 927 are sky high, which is an indication that they are held in high regard by the cognoscenti. I don't know the range very well, but I believe the 927 is the king of idler drives, Jean... | |
| Brinkmann Bardo Downunder, you guys should get together to compare the P3 with the GP Monaco. I would love to hear about that comparison, notwithstanding the difference in tonearms that is inevitable. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? I hope not. My best friends are those with whom it is comfortable to disagree once in a while. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Absolutely no apology necessary, Montepilot. And I did not mean to offend you, Raul. My "test" LPs are generally LPs that I love/loved so much that I have listened to them dozens and dozens of times on my system. Thus I got to know how they sound ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Once upon a time I bought the Patricia Barber CD or SACD that I believe contains the same music as does the LP you are talking about. While I do like PB's vocals on standards (especially "You don't know what love is"), I do not particularly like t... |