lewm
Responses from lewm
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Raul, I saw a photo of the ZYX on VA. You might check the threads there. It has a tiny blue ball at one end which is said to soak up resonances. (How often have we read that line?) Hence my allusion to your remark about "the ball" being in the cou... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Raul, Have you seen the new $16,000-ZYX? Evidently the ball is not only in the LOMC makers court; it is also on the cartridge. By my calculations, one can own anywhere from 60 to 100 MM cartridges for the price of that one. | |
| SP10 Mk II vs Mk III Here's the thing. If you fire up your SP10 MkII while it is just sitting naked on a shelf, you will see that IT will "do a little dance" (altho I never saw one make a little love). It does a little dance because of Newton's 3rd Law of Motion, and ... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Jock strap gives better bass response and lower rumble. I don't like the hf response with panty hose. | |
| SP10 Mk II vs Mk III Dear Raul, You were once kind enough to post photos of your SP10 with "no plinth". As I recall it does sit in a piece of plywood, but it is supported underneath the chassis by some Audio Technica or similar compliant "feet". I always thought that ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Just when you guys convinced me to try it, the Sumiko Andante P76 for sale ad seems to have expired. Ah, well.... | |
| SP10 Mk II vs Mk III FWIW, I have removed and replaced the platters from two different SP10s, a MkII and a Mk2A, in order to lubricate their bearings and in order to replace electrolytic caps in the electonic module. (In medical training the aphorism regarding procedu... | |
| SP10 Mk II vs Mk III I fully agree that nearly all production dd tables can be improved by improving their plinths. And I take your point about the suspension of the motor in the SP10. Albert addresses this issue by supporting the motor/bearing assembly via a brass ro... | |
| SP10 Mk II vs Mk III Hiho, Are you saying that for the SP10 MKII you just lengthen the wires from the chassis-bound electronics to the motor, when you install the motor only into a dedicated plinth? How long are the leads between the motor and its electronics when you... | |
| Turntable Motor Maxon, too. | |
| TriPlanar Tips Dear Nandric, There would be no problem here either if I were gay. My one-line comment was an allusion to a one-liner written by the great American humorist Mark Twain, probably 100 years ago. A newspaper had erroneously reported that Twain had di... | |
| TriPlanar Tips Rumors that I am a "smart gay" are exaggerated.Nandric, if you re-read what you wrote and what Dan-ed just wrote, you will see, I hope, that there is no way that Tri could accommodate, or indeed anticipate, all the neurotic needs of us audiophiles... | |
| TriPlanar Tips Dear Ralph (Atma), What cartridge are you using that requires no AS compensation? I know that Doug uses the ZYX Universe. Nandric, I am very sorry you had to pay so much for your Triplanar. However, as you yourself noted, most of the money did not... | |
| SP10 Mk II vs Mk III I use the same tech as Albert, and I can confirm what he says. But Bill Thalmann would be the first to say that he is not the only man in the world who can restore the electronics of a MKII or III. The point is really that replacing the electrolyt... | |
| TriPlanar Tips Dear Nandric, As Ralph implied, anti-skate is a bugaboo of pivoted tonearms with fixed-angle head shells. This notion of using micro-amounts or none at all is Doug's idea based on his listening. Moreover, the tiny o-rings he uses really are not ha... |