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| Should I buy a VDH Colibri or Black Beauty? Fmpnd, Sounds like your (negative) experience was pretty convincing to you. The only explanation that might exonerate the Colibri is that there was some suboptimal interaction between your tonearm and the cartridge, a la Raul's point. My Colibri i... | |
| Should I buy a VDH Colibri or Black Beauty? I meant to add that if you are looking at a used Colibri, especially one that has recently been "readjusted" by van den Hul, then any fears of manufacturing defects should be ameliorated. Someone else has done the beta testing for you. Therefore t... | |
| Should I buy a VDH Colibri or Black Beauty? In my similar inquiry a few months ago, I found that many of the guys who post here and who have the most experience with a wide variety of high end cartridges were in awe of the Colibri, but all said that it was a cartridge that will reveal the "... | |
| Which phonostage is a heavenly match for a XV-1S Dan_ed, It is hard to argue with your proposition, but in the case of inside vs outside, I personally far prefer built-in, for two reasons: (1) In-built phono stages, if properly designed, will usually not require a buffer stage (cathode-follower ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Tobes, Your data would seem to be essentially in agreement with my statement. At all loads of 100R or higher, the voltage output varies very little, altho it does get a little better with each increment above 100R, by an amount which would be... | |
| Can anyone provide Denon DP service manuals? Go to Vinyl Engine. That's where I got one for the Denon DP80. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Raul, If there is a real measurable difference in SPL when one goes from 100R to 47K load, this indicates to me that 100R is too low for the particular cartridge, because some signal voltage is being lost to ground with that load. There is a ... | |
| TUBE NOOB: ADVICE NEEDED ON REPLACEMENT TUBE Check with Antique Electronic Supply in Arizona. They are very reliable nice people who will not sell bad tubes, and they have a huge inventory. | |
| New vinyl's noisy little secret Bosrt, You have evidently adopted a very onerous way to clean your LPs. With my VPI HW17, it never takes more than a total of 5-6 minutes to clean both sides, using my conventional cleaner (dilute non-ionic detergent in a water/alcohol mix). If I ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? This is all off-topic, but once back in the day I also tried 47K with an MC, and it WAS bright. However, my present system and the system I had back then have nothing in common. In one way, this subject may indeed have relevance to the present dis... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Raul, Your point that the match between tonearm and cartridge depends on more than just the resonant frequency is an excellent one and does run thru my mind when I read such mathematical treatments. I guess the idea is that once you make sure that... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Headsnappin, there are many threads on Vinyl Asylum regarding tonearm/cartridge matching. Here I have referenced a post by BKearns, taken from VA. BK is one of the smart guys, so I would take his message to heart.http://www.audioasylum.com/audio/v... | |
| Vintage Denon Direct Drive Turntable You could probably get a Pennsylvania slate slab shipped to you in SoCal from my supplier. If you're interested contact me off-line. They are in Pen Argyll, PA. And yes, I do like the slate shelf under the slate plinth for the SP10. I only bought ... | |
| the perfect tonearm JCarr, You wrote, "the Triplanar and other tonearms that have drop-down headshell sides may have problems with wide-bodied cartridges like the Allearts Formula One." What model of Triplanar have you used that has such a headshell? I have owned min... | |
| Vintage Denon Direct Drive Turntable Thanks, Raul. It is as simple as simple gets, just slate, turntable chassis, and tonearm. No armboards, no fancy suspension. Right now I am using 2x2x2 inch slate cubes for "feet", but I would like to introduce something with a little compliance. ... |