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| EMT turntables as good as other great vintage TT? Jake, All of your presuppositions are correct in the mind of someone out here. I will only say that if you decide to make a plinth, it is not such a black art. Baltic birch, panzerholz, and mdf are wood or wood-derived materials that others have u... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Nandric, You are the best. I rely on my son for Japanese translations and communication. Anyway, I agree with your central point: the Bluzbroz styli do not appear to be NOS, even though they claim that they are. Using Timeltel's cited Acutex broch... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Nandric, The guy from Bluz Broz called me back and confirmed that they are selling M versions of the 312 and 315 STR styli. On their site, they state that they have the 315E (elliptical) version. However, he tells me it is actually a Shibata.... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Wow! Raul, I just spoke to a guy at Bluz Broz, and he is going to call me back after he examines the stylus under a microscope to verify that it is a genuine and NOS shibata type. This sounds too much like the story you quoted above. He also said ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Thank you, Raul and Nandric. Raul, I did recall that you had written something about the Acutex cartridges, but I did not recall that you mentioned the two different body types, probably because I had no particular interest in the subject at that ... | |
| Phonostage for Jan Allaerts MC 2 Finish Gold. What Karelfd said seems to be the best advice possible. But as regards the hum, per se, check your grounding scheme. If your tonearm is grounded to your preamp, remove the ground wire. If the tonearm is NOT grounded to your preamp, then add a grou... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Addendum on Acutex. I did a web search this morning. I am getting the impression that there must be two genera of Acutex's, one of which is P-mount and the other of which uses the standard 1/2-inch mount. The styli depicted here, at BluzBroz, look... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Problem with Acutex. I bought an Acutex M312E from an eBay seller. It came with a broken cantilever. The seller was very up front about that. However, he indicated I could get a new stylus assembly from Turntable Needles. I subsequently ordered th... | |
| 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... |