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| SP10 Mk II vs Mk III I have asked myself how the mat got warped in the first place, for a clue as to how to remove the warp. I assume it absorbed moisture, but I question my own hypothesis; why should rubber absorb moisture? Anyway, it's got to be totally flat to be u... | |
| Are linear tracking arms better than pivoted arms? I think the difference in the stress on a cantilever caused by a straight line arm vs a pivoted arm has to do with inertia, primarily. Lets assume there is zero friction. The cantilever is therefore bearing only the inertia (in the horizontal plan... | |
| SP10 Mk II vs Mk III Pryso, I had both a MkII and a Mk2A for a while. You are quite correct; there is a difference between the rubber mats supplied for those two tts. The MkII mat has those fine concentric rings, as you say, and may be more flexible, made of less rigi... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Raul, that Signet cartridge still has no takers. The seller states that he used it on his Rabco straightline tracker. For this reason, I would be worried about the cartridge; the Rabco depends upon the stylus/cantilever to drag itself across an LP... | |
| SP10 Mk II vs Mk III John, You wrote, "The MkIII had a SAEC SS-300 with a sorbathane "like" material on top of it. The MKII had the orignal rubber mat." Perhaps that had something to do with the across the board superiority of the Mk3. But with quasi-sorbothane on top... | |
| SP10 Mk II vs Mk III Dear Johnp,First of all, thank you so much for taking the time and energy to type out your report and post it here. It seems you took great pains to get valid data relevant to a comparison of these great turntables. But I must confess, there is so... | |
| Luxman PD-272 If it has never been serviced, your finding is not surprising. First, the electronics probably utilize a bunch of electrolytic caps. Many of these caps may have become "leaky" due simply to their age. "Leaky" means in an electronic sense that they... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Raul, It is not that I am not used to handling MC cartridges, which generally tend not to have a stylus guards. As you know, I am only a recent convert to the MM faith, and for two decades I owned only MC cartridges. Never once did I have an ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Forgot to say, instead of "glue", I would recommend some Walker Audio silver contact enhancer or a similar product. You could put that stuff right on the frictional surfaces to increase BOTH the solidity of the mating and the electrical contact ac... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? I like the idea of removing the M20FL Super stylus guard, in principle, but I have to admit that if you mount these things on removable headshells, as I have started to do, the guard is really useful, not to say "life-saving". Same goes for the Gr... | |
| Are linear tracking arms better than pivoted arms? Hey 213 Cobra (Phil), I too was a friend and customer of Julius' in his end stage as a manufacturer. Over a period of 5-7 years I bought two amps from him, a stereo unit and then an H3aa. I have a vivid memory of standing in his shop space while h... | |
| Are linear tracking arms better than pivoted arms? "Make sure you use a surge tank with it and an air filter on the output of the tank that feeds the arm tube. You can build your own surge tank for dirt cheap by going to home depot or Lowes and buying a chunk of PVC pipe and two end caps and two a... | |
| SP10 Mk II vs Mk III Cknicker, I see now after all these months that I misunderstood your question of 11-07-09. You asked whether I replaced the 1uF electrolytics with 1uF film caps. The short answer is "no". The new Panasonic lytics in 1uF look to be very high qualit... | |
| SP10 Mk II vs Mk III Rnadelman, Choosing feet is like choosing a way to comb your hair. Everyone has a different idea of what is best. I recently purchased some of those huge feet that TT Weights make for their own Christine turntable. The feet are for sale here on Au... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Timeltel, You cannot go wrong quoting Groucho. My favorite is what he said about Doris Day, who was apparently quite a floozy in private but became America's darling after she made many movies that depicted her as a virtuous innocent. Groucho said... |