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| TTWeights new Black Onyx Idler drive Turntable Dear Alec,I really am not qualified to give you a general answer that covers all the bases. I can only say that in my limited experience, highest quality vintage DD turntables sound better than "very good" modern belt drive-turntables at around th... | |
| Direct Drive turntables Dertonearm knows I do not necessarily concur with his gross generalization regarding platter mass, as it may apply to anything other than a belt drive turntable. But we have beaten the subject to death on another thread. However he is quite right;... | |
| Direct Drive turntables Dertonearm, Have you seen the photos of the new "direct idler-drive" turntables to be marketed by TT Weights? There are two models, one megabuck and one for under $10K. But both sport VERY heavy platters in the 30-lb range and higher. I thought th... | |
| Direct Drive turntables The problems associated with direct-drive were well known to the guys who designed the very best direct-drive turntables of the 1970s and 1980s, which was not exactly the Dark Ages in terms of electronics and engineering. The very best direct-driv... | |
| Ortofon MC A90 cartridge Dear Mike, Do you really think that the differences you hear are mostly due to the tonearm/turntable interaction (consistent with your statement that mounting the Reed on your Garrard might give you the best of both worlds). I am kind of biased to... | |
| Using XLR for Phono out Cool. But I was not totally wrong; you need to feed a balanced signal to the primary. I don't know why one would want to convert a perfectly good balanced signal to SE, except if you are a transformer-phile. (I'm just kidding; you probably have so... | |
| TTWeights new Black Onyx Idler drive Turntable Besides that, it seems the subplatter is used to provide an additional degree of isolation of any motor noise from the platter itself, although we don't know much about how the subplatter and platter are linked. It's pretty cool that in this day a... | |
| DaVinci tonearm and azymuth Dear Jazzgene, The primary objective in adjusting azimuth, if you are using electrical criteria and based on my reading of two long treatises on the subject (see below), is to get the best possible numbers for each channel, but not necessarily to ... | |
| New Cartridge = right channel distortion Agree with Etbaby, blank record is NOT the way to set anti-skate. Suggest you remove all anti-skate force and then listen again with zero anti-skate. Add a tiny amount of anti-skate relative to VTF, if you hear problems in R channel and until any ... | |
| TTWeights new Black Onyx Idler drive Turntable So in the most well known vintage idlers (Garrard and Lenco), the motor drives a separate and discrete idler wheel via friction between a driven shaft and the idler wheel. The idler wheel in turn contacts either the inner rim of the platter (Garra... | |
| Recommended interconnect phono to preamp I bought some 28ga cotton-insulated silver wire, a Cardas DIN plug, and in my case some Neutrik XLRs (you might want male RCA plugs), from M Percy and made my own IC, for a net investment of around $100. Percy also sells the braided shield and hea... | |
| TTWeights new Black Onyx Idler drive Turntable Hifitime, Thanks for the URL. The blurb says that Black Onyx is a "Direct Idler Drive", which is a contradiction in terms, and the photos are all of the intact turntable, taken whilst playing a record, so one cannot really tell about the drive sys... | |
| TTWeights new Black Onyx Idler drive Turntable Photos of Black Onyx?Maybe TT Weights will let you have some to put up here, if you did not take photos of your own. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Tonite I verified that I am at 1.5 in a Dynavector DV505 tonearm and tracking is superb. | |
| DaVinci tonearm and azymuth Pro: Most mechanisms for adjusting azimuth introduce some compromise into the rigidity of the cartridge-headshell-tonearm-pivot linkage. Leaving out the adjustment eliminates such theoretical "issues".Con: You cannot adjust azimuth. You therefore ... |