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| Best TT plinth material, cost no object Dear Ken, I take it you must reside in the Richmond, VA, area, if you live near Howard. He currently has my Kenwood L07D motor and power supply for parts upgrades and calibration. I look forward to having it back here in Bethesda, MD, for my first... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Halcro, Are you withdrawing your previous praise of the Orto M20FL Super? Sounds like you are. I had inquired with Ayre regarding the input capacitance of their p5Xe phono stage. I received a courteous e-mail from Charlie Hansen in which he guesst... | |
| Best TT plinth material, cost no object Dear Raul, I think it is a bit too strong to use the word "charlatan" in this regard. In English a charlatan is a "deliberate liar". If anything, most of us are only guilty of generalizing too broadly from relatively limited direct experience or c... | |
| Best TT plinth material, cost no object So, Ken, why isn't that project finished and what might you not like about the behemoth you built? Maybe that could lead you in a good direction. None of us have your skills in the first place. Many latter day belt-drive tables have virtually done... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Raul, I have been so taken with the M20FL that I have yet to audition my NOS B&O MMC1. I also have an MM20CL, but not an MMC2. My purchase choices were somewhat based on your advice many months ago. For that matter, the Grado TLZ deserves... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Montepilot, Just wing it at 47K. Don't worry yet about other load resistances. And remember to use a bit to a lot of positive VTA. Add salt to taste. Cook to a golden brown. | |
| Continuum Caliburn - really the best TT on earth? Congratulations, Thuchan, assuming that the crate contains what we all think it contains. I think the outcome was inevitable from the start. You just wanted some moral support. I hope you will keep this thread alive by relating to us your judgemen... | |
| It is 5 AM, Do you Know where Mikey Fremer is? Yes, some dear friends of mine recently gave me their small LP collection. It has some great titles, early West Coast jazz that is lacking in my collection for example. I cleaned several of them and have been playing them. So far, two home runs - ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? First the idler-drive crowd led me to listening to a Lenco. Then I listened to some direct-drive turntables. Now I have examples of both types and no belt-drive tt at all. Then you initiated this thread on MM/MI cartridges. So, in about 2 years of... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? It is really fascinating to read your report, Henry (Halcro). It confirms that I have not lost my mind (or my hearing), nor am I being subconsciously swayed by the herd mentality that this thread may engender. I am also interested to learn about M... | |
| It is 5 AM, Do you Know where Mikey Fremer is? I've got about 1500 LPs, a collection assembled over a nearly 40 year period starting in and after college. I mentally divide my collection into two categories: those LPs I bought new when LPs were available by the bushel in "Record Stores" and th... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? A cartridge, any cartridge, has no "ground" side, except whereas you connect it up via a single-ended input, where one phase of the cartridge output is connected to ground. Cartridges are inherently balanced output devices with floating ground. I ... | |
| alternative power supply for Garrard 301 When I said that the Loricraft units are expensive for what they do, I did not mean to imply that AC supplies are not extremely beneficial. In fact, I would not be without one. I think I will stop with that. Mark, as you know, I would be intereste... | |
| Speed Stability Frogman, You wrote, "No, the speed stability of turntables (even the best), does not equal that of digital sources playing digital recordings." What turntables have you actually auditioned for this property that you would characterize as "the best... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Raul, I take as much credit for "discovering" the need for positive VTA with the M20FL as would Isaac Newton for describing the force of gravity after that apple fall on his head (except Newton WAS a genius and that story is apocryphal). Anyway, I... |