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| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Dear Jean, Is your bearing upgrade available to the rest of us? If so, can you supply details? Also, do you still use and recommend the stock idler wheel in your ultimate efforts? Thanks. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Raul,Prior to this craziness with turntable, cartridges, and tonearms, I only owned one tonearm, the Triplanar. I also only owned one protractor, the Turntable Basics (TTB). Well, in fact I also have owned a metal Dennesen protractor for abou... | |
| Analog Gurus in Washington DC The "DC area" is geographically large. Where exactly do you live? For example, I live in West Bethesda, near the Potomac. (Glen Echo, actually.) | |
| Koetsu Urushi: Blue Sky, Vermillion, Tsugaru I think Brinkmann now make two direct drive turntables, which they seem to sell right alongside their very excellent belt drive products. I have no idea which sounds best, and there has been sadly little mention of the fact that the Brinkmann prod... | |
| Anyone using a Lyra Delos yet? Dear Actusreus, Thanks to you and Syntax for setting me straight on the concept that SRA cannot be set by observation of the angle of the stylus with the LP. I read Fremer's article only superficially, obviously. I will now cease to be concerned a... | |
| Koetsu Urushi: Blue Sky, Vermillion, Tsugaru Dear Fjn04, Like most of us, I like what I have or what I have heard. I happen to have a Colibri, which is the yin to Koetsu Yang (or vice-versa), but I like it too. In a head to head, I might have to rank the Colibri above the Urushi. I also have... | |
| Koetsu Urushi: Blue Sky, Vermillion, Tsugaru Dear Doug, I don't get it, but I am not offended. Now that I have widened my horizons, I realize the Urushi is not the be-all and end-all. Since you are a UNIverse aficionado, it is not at all surprising that you would not care for Koetsus (assumi... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? I think you may find that with careful tweaking both or either one of the Ortofon and the Andante may do better on resolving massed orchestral strings. I found this to be true of the Azden after I dialed in the geometry and VTA, but not before. (F... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? So has any one of us yet tried one of the NOS Technics cartridges sold by Thakker? Will either of those accept a stylus assembly from a 100C? Interesting idea, eh what. | |
| Koetsu Urushi: Blue Sky, Vermillion, Tsugaru "Urushi", I believe, refers to the art of lacquer application.I recently saw a chart comparing the various versions of the Urushi. It seems to agree with what you say. Only the Vermillion is somewhat distinctive. I would buy the Blue, because I li... | |
| Any idea where to find Micro Seiki tonearm parts? Also, look on eBay for a machinist who sells anti-skate weights for Dynavector tonearms and the like, "Peter" by name I think. Contact him. He can make anything. He made a perfect reproduction of a main counterweight for my DV505 (the thing that l... | |
| Anyone using a Lyra Delos yet? Syntax, Great photo. But your SRA looks a bit off, based on Fremer's latest column in S'phile. 92 degrees, he says. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Downunder, Best to go to M Percy website or to Texas Instrument website and search on "TI Shield". (The TI stands for Texas Instruments.) It's about as thick as the lid of a tin can, easy to work with. It is said to be superior to ERS cloth f... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Ddriveman, Yes. I use "TI Shield", sold in sheets by Michael Percy. I bought a 12x12" piece and cut it in the shape of an LP, then inserted it between the platter and the platter sheet. I have listened to the table with and without the shield in p... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? I think you can get a male DIN plug made by Cardas from Michael Percy Audio in Nevada City, California, USA. I am sure there are many other sources for such a product, as well. |