lewm
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| The necessity of a plinth Dazzdax, You raise an interesting question, and I am glad that Raul responded with his experience. One logical reason for a heavy plinth on the SP10 was put forward by Mark Kelly, a person whose opinion commands respect. Mark noted that because of... | |
| Reason for buying old/classic turntables Mrjstark, We are in the same boat. One reason that I am tinkering with these old tts, idler and dd types, not belt-drives, is that I have heard all the best belt-drives that cost less than $5,000 and already know that my Lenco in giant plinth can ... | |
| Reason for buying old/classic turntables Mrjstark, It's really a question of whether the highest forms of modern technology are being applied to tt development at all. Perhaps the Monaco Grand Prix tt is an example that would tend to answer the question in the affirmative, but there are ... | |
| Reason for buying old/classic turntables There are moments, when driving a late 50's Porsche at 9/10ths, when you're in the groove, that really can't be equalled and certainly not beaten by any modern sports car, even a modern Porsche. Something has been lost, just like in the LP vs CD c... | |
| Reason for buying old/classic turntables I will frankly admit that I have become smitten with vintage tts only in the last year after acquiring a Lenco in a "giant direct-coupled" plinth. The Lenco was immediately perceived to sound better than my Notts Analog Hyperspace, so the Notts ha... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Rnm4, The same goes for me. I only wanted to enliven the discourse. There's really no way that Jean could have an underlying motive when he states that he likes the Technics SP25 better than an SP10 MkII; I hope it's understood that I also think t... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Rnm4, I have and had no intention of starting a fight. All I'm saying is that when one says X is due to Y, Y ought to be true. If Y is not true, then it cannot be a cause of X. Without being specific, I take issue with some of Jean's Ys (his presu... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Rnm4, you are correct. I misspoke. I should have written that Jean does propose his hypotheses as facts, without having done the experiments necessary to prove the hypotheses, as you also suggest. Or if he did them, he does not present the data. | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Dear Jean, With all due respect, and speaking as a happy owner of one of your Giant direct-coupled Lencos, I must nevertheless take issue with some of the bald statements you've made in this last post, many of which are repeated from previous post... | |
| What loading do you use on your Dynavector XX2MKII Islandman, I'd be curious to know what speakers you are using and what happens to the sound as you increase the load resistance that you find less pleasant. I am just very surprised that 10-ohm loading sounds best. | |
| SP10 Mk II vs Mk III Hiho, Go over to Lenco Lovers and take a look at the PTP3 top plate, made to conquer the very problems you cite as regards idlers. I'm working on that one, too. You can have a used Lenco and a PTP3 for under $500.Do you think one could just remove... | |
| SP10 Mk II vs Mk III This thread was about to fall off the first page. Mike and Albert, any time you do have anything to say about the MkII vs MkIII comparison, please let us know. My MkII is almost ready to go in a slate plinth. | |
| Uesugi UTY-7 phono stage Thanks for the tip, guys. I will be sure to visit Recofan in Shibuya, next time I visit my son in Tokyo. I've bought a whole lot of jazz records from Audio Union near the Ochanomizu station. Don't be too concerned; there are only so many LPs that ... | |
| Would Like To Hear From Strain Gauge Owners Dan-ed, As an engineer, you know far better than I what's going on, but as I understand it, the job of the RIAA equalization network is to UN-"squash" that which was squashed during the conversion of the musical signal into grooves on an LP. So, t... | |
| Loading for Air Tight PC-1 Supreme Ianchang, The data that came with the PC-1 no doubt refer to the final load the cartridge "sees" when it looks at the phono stage input. With no SUT, all you need to do is insert a resistor in that range of values in parallel with the input of the... |