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| Stax tonearm idiosyncracy Thanks, Raul. I thought I was losing my mind here. There's a little set screw on the underside of the tonearm, where the arm tube joins the pivot (this is the joint that is "floppy"). Perhaps by tightening that set screw the joint will straighten ... | |
| Stax tonearm idiosyncracy How the heck can it work properly? The arm tube can go all over the place in the lateral plane with respect to the intended pivot point. | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Dear Jean, I am trying to read not between the lines but right on the lines you wrote. Are you saying that the PTP2 (or whatever) beats the glass-reinforced standard chassis, assuming similarly good Nantais plinths, or not? Oh, I now see that you ... | |
| Unipivot vs Linear Tracking I did some research after posting. The cartridge man is one inexpensive LTer and then there is also another one that uses nested triangular girders. Can't tell what that one costs, but it would seem to be in the $1K range or less. If LTs at that l... | |
| Unipivot vs Linear Tracking Dear Sirspeedy, Can you recall the name of the LT arm that was used as a comparator in that review, OR can you supply a reference to the article? Sounds like there was only one well recognized top quality pivoted arm involved, the Brinkmann. The o... | |
| correct zerostat technique This is very funny. For many years, I was aiming my Zerostat at the LP during both squeeze and release of the trigger. Then some years ago a few friends of mine told me I had been doing it wrong, that you squeeze while pointing at the LP then rele... | |
| Building high-end 'tables at Home Depot: Photos I'm sure that all you have to do is to re-wire the AC inputs in back of the motor housing. Go to Lenco-Lovers website where you will probably find the necessary info. | |
| Triplanar madness I tell u, madness Loss of focus would occur if one channel is 180 degrees out of phase with respect to the other channel, but probably not if both channels are in-phase with each other, regardless of whether they are also in phase with the music, whatever phase tha... | |
| MC phono stage without transformer? Dear Plinko, To be truthful, I probably could not afford a new MP1, so some years ago I bought mine used at a rather low price, because it had been badly abused by a series of owners, but it had been originally built with many expensive extras, li... | |
| MC phono stage without transformer? Dear Plinko, Build it yourself, if you feel that strongly about expensive SUT-less phono stages. It can be done for far far less than $3K. There are schematics galore on-line. For example, check out the Vacuum State website. AW shows the schematic... | |
| MC phono stage without transformer? Atma, Lots, if not most, of my fave jazz recordings are in mono, 33 rpm, and were made prior to the advent of stereo. | |
| MC phono stage without transformer? Yeah. Equalization should ideally be within 0.1db for RIAA, but also for "Columbia", for "LP", and for all the other equalization curves used by different companies at different times in history. That's the problem. I've got British EMI pressings ... | |
| MC phono stage without transformer? Here we go. Raul, I disagree with you on amplifier output impedance, because an output Z of 0.1 ohm is usually achieved by using gobs of negative feedback, which introduces distortions across the entire musical spectrum that are far more objection... | |
| Halcyonics under my tt. Wow But Tbg, As I understand it, you own 3 Halcyonics platform, albeit maybe not the Silencer. So why are you frustrated? It is we paupers who ought to be frustrated. | |
| MC phono stage without transformer? I would posit that the Atma-sphere MP1, Raul's preamp, the Vacuum State RTP3D, and the Dolshi are all relative bargains in this era of $15,000 linestages. Don't know about the Dolshi, but the first 3 offer balanced, dual-differential circuitry (wh... |