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Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II
Dear Gadfly,Tell me more about your TD-111 and less about your personal obsession with Jean and what you think he did or did not claim to invent or discover. No one gives a darn either way.Dear everyone else,Jean built me a giant plinth for my Len... 
I envy what you know, not what you have
I agree that much is to be learned from the experiences of others as posted here. Acquiring such knowledge is an excellent way to get your feet wet in this hobby, but once you have accumulated basic information, remember that the rest is nothing b... 
Maple or Granite
I've just ordered an Adona equipment rack. They use granite shelves that are damped by wood or a wood product that is bonded to the underside. I'm hoping this gives the best of both worlds, but if not, they do sell various kinds of wood shelving t... 
Dyscoveries on Dyna, Denon, Supex, Technics,FR,Ik
The last MM cartridge I owned was a Grado TLZ. To this day, I have fond memories of that cartridge, and I think in retrospect it was better sounding in most ways than the lower end MC cartridges that I used after I took the TLZ out of my system. U... 
Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II
Thanks for the post, Mario. Mosin actually clears up a lot of my questions in the context of the paragraphs you quoted. Thanks also to Mosin. 
Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II
I agree that Mosin's work is cosmetically the best I've seen, and it seems that he has used a unique platter, which perhaps he made himself or had custom-made for him, but I would sure like to know more about the innards. Mosin, can you supply som... 
Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II
Mosin, That's beautiful, as you appear to have been told already. Can you reveal any details regarding the internal construction? In other words, how did you go about building an idler from scratch? What is the platter made of, etc? Do you have mo... 
Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II
Steve, So are you saying that you personally have compared a Teres rim driven tt to a max'd out Lenco or Garrard and that the results are resoundingly in favor of the former? If not, then aren't you being as guilty as Jean of turntable Chauvinism?... 
Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II
That was a humorous and ironic comment by "JD", but where do you see a photo of Jean? 
New Teres Direct Drive Motor Available as Option
Paul, I think you misunderstood my intent. My main point was that we need someone who is or was in the record-making business to tell us whether Ketchup's point has any validity. And I am only saying that my guess is that it does not, but I admit ... 
New Teres Direct Drive Motor Available as Option
Ketchup, One would need to know a lot more about how a cutting lathe works. Perhaps someone among us can enlighten the rest. But if your idea has any validity, then in effect "stylus drag" is a good thing. There seems to be a body of empirical evi... 
New Teres Direct Drive Motor Available as Option
Swampwalker, I don't want to wade into an argument about belt drive vs idler drive vs etc, but "torque" is defined as angular force. So, torque is the product of mass multiplied by acceleration, like any other force. Then, if stylus drag could be ... 
New Teres Direct Drive Motor Available as Option
Thom, what a cool idea! By using one platter as the pulley to drive the other, I think (if I remember my Newtonian mechanics correctly) there is less stretching force on the belt and a lower likelihood of slippage, ergo less speed irregularity (be... 
Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II
Rs, An SME V is not in the cards for me, but I will let you know how the Triplanar/Koetsu works when I finally do get the tt from UPS. (Yes, it's been more than 3 weeks since Jean shipped the Lenco to me, with many snafus on the part of the UPS cu... 
Frequency/Channel imbalance. Help
Azimuth adjustment per se has very little effect on the output per channel (i.e., balance). This fact is mentioned in two erudite treatises on azimuth to be found in the Vinyl Asylum archives, authored by Victor Khomenko and B Kearns, respectively...