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| How Many Turntables Have You Owned Hi Soren, Do you like your L07D? Since this thread started, I bought one and am using it regularly after having the electronics refurbished and upgraded. I absolutely love it. The tonearm has a lot wrong with it in theory, but sounds wonderful in ... | |
| Schroder sq and the new talea None of this stuff, no matter how expensive, will ever get me back to that night when I was 17 years old, sitting in a tiny nightclub in New Haven (Connecticut), listening to John Coltrane play and watching him at work, as he was standing about 6 ... | |
| Whest MC REF V - my new christmas present The % mark-up by the importer is not unusual. Japanese-made phono gear is often subjected to the same treatment. Some Japanese cartridges can be bought in Tokyo for less than half their cost here in the US, with no special effort required. It rema... | |
| Schroder sq and the new talea Ummm... Syntax, I fear you have misunderstood my post, which you saw fit to quote. To say that the named tonearm designers "attempt(ed) to advance the state of the art" is not to say that in my opinion they have actually done so. I am not in a pos... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Good one, Travis. | |
| Schroder sq and the new talea DT, Herb Papier, inventor of the Triplanar, lived in Wheaton, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, DC. Hence the origin of the original full name of the tonearm. Triplanar moved to Minnesota after Herb died, so the "Wheaton" moniker is no longer appr... | |
| Whest MC REF V - my new christmas present The Whest website is singularly uninformative as to what goes into their products, except to intimate that they use bipolar transistors, "high voltage", "high current", and lots of voltage regulators (20 in the case of the Ref V). Also, they use C... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Halcro, That's an Aussie solution to hum that I never had thought of. It did occur to me to apply the same treatment to my recalcitrant amplifier, but it's too large to be crushed into dust. I never had any hum problem with the Azden, but I just c... | |
| Whest MC REF V - my new christmas present Is there any good information available on how the various Whest phono stages differ from one another? It would interest me to know what is inside a $20K phono stage that justifies such pricing. I do think it's fair also to charge for brilliance i... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Thanks for your candor, Weseixas. Timeltel, Yes, the distortion I was hearing back then almost certainly had to do with the incipient problem in my amplifier. It is the R channel amplifier that is now on my operating table since the early summer. ... | |
| Schroder sq and the new talea DT, That was exactly the situation in the Dobbins room, where one could listen to his "The Beat" direct-drive turntable with two Reed tonearms mounted. Both were connected to the same Allnic phono stage, etc. Speakers were MBL. The cartridges in u... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Would not characterize the Azden as "soft" or "warm". I really don't feel qualified to comment otherwise. My system has been out of commission for nearly 3 months, but I think, over this past weekend, I finally identified and repaired the problem ... | |
| Vinyl presses on last leg? Pressing limitations st If no one buys new issues, THEN the industry that makes them will die. If sales are vigorous, the finances will be allocated to repair existing machines and/or build new ones. I think it's as simple as that. So stop yer bitchin' and git out there ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Timeltel, Are you preferring the Signet over the Acutex, or just taking a break from the latter cartridge? | |
| Schroder sq and the new talea Jtinn, So that was you with the iPhone displaying the db level. I was looking at your phone display over your shoulder, but at that distance (standing in the back of the room, you were about 3 rows in front of me) I could not make out the data rea... |