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| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Pryso, In my lifetime I have owned about 25 different old Porsches, pre-1965 bathtubs. As you may know, Porsche consulted with Chevrolet at least on the Corvair motor, if not also on other aspects of the Corvair. Maybe that's why I like my Grado T... | |
| Technics SP-10 Tonearm Pod instead of Plinth/Base Pryso, You got the same idea I had re Raul's non-plinth. When I described it here pretty much as you did, Raul posted that I was incorrect, that his tonearm IS on a discrete outboard mount of its own. While Raul is not alone in preferring that typ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dave, Thanks for the URL, but nowhere do they tell you how much AVM you get for $95. It looks to be a very small bottle. I have never heard of this product before and would have dismissed it as snake oil, were it not for your recommendation. | |
| Technics SP-10 Tonearm Pod instead of Plinth/Base Dsa,You can get an exact 1:1 template for the SP10 chassis cut-out from Soundfountain. It even shows exactly where to put the screw holes. It costs only a few bucks.What that person may have meant re the 12-inch tonearm is that the square shape of... | |
| Technics SP-10 Tonearm Pod instead of Plinth/Base Fehhhh on perspex. Bad idea, IMO. I know that Clearaudio uses perspex for everything, but they are making belt drive tables. That's a different kettle of fish. | |
| Technics SP-10 Tonearm Pod instead of Plinth/Base You mean Corian? The scuttlebutt on Corian is that it does not sound so good as a plinth. This is only word of mouth information. I think Jean Nantais is one person who tried Corian as did some others with Lenco tts. Don't give up on concrete, IMO... | |
| How to fix the brake on Technic sp10 mkII? The key is that you say you have the part. If it is undamaged (check out the felt liner), then it can be easily reinstalled provided that the two posts (one fixed and one variable for brake tension control) are still present in your unit. If those... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Raul, It sounds great. Is it the best cartridge in my collection? I have no way of even guessing yet. I could use the 250 toward a Nagaoka MP50 instead of a new TLZ stylus assembly, which anyway may also be old and stiff (kind of like me), even if... | |
| Technics SP-10 Tonearm Pod instead of Plinth/Base Concrete might be excellent. I recently saw a Kenwood L07D. It's plinth is made in part of a very dense particulate material, much like concrete. (The plinth is further damped by metal and wood layers.) By all accounts, the L07D is VERY quiet, so ... | |
| Technics SP-10 Tonearm Pod instead of Plinth/Base I don't have any idea why it might be so, but I have had negative reports on marble as a material for plinths. You can say it rings when you tap it, as does granite, but I have never understood how/why that should be the determining factor. I woul... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? It's probably a matter of tonearms rather than cartridges, but Raul, I find that with the Dynavector/TLZ, I need some AS to center the image. Otherwise the center of the stage is over to the right speaker, although there is no real distortion. But... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Last night I let the TLZ play one side of an LP about 10 times, without turning on the rest of the system, in order to "break-in" the 20-year-old suspension. Then I settled in to listen to it again. The exercise did it a lot of good. There was muc... | |
| Technics SP-10 Tonearm Pod instead of Plinth/Base This is yet another of those "to each his own" audio discussions. We can be comfortable knowing we are all in the right. Have fun. If any one of us besides Raul tries it both ways, please report back on your preference. | |
| Technics SP-10 Tonearm Pod instead of Plinth/Base Raul has a point; I have never heard an SP10 sans plinth. Really, there are two issues here: (1) plinth vs no plinth, and (2) outboard arm pod vs mechanical linkage of the tonearm mount to the tt chassis. I feel more strongly on the latter subject... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Raul, If the load R goes up, what should happen to C (up or down), for optimum results? It's hard to find any such analysis on the web for MM cartridges. Do R and C act as a simple hi-pass filter here, or is the inter-relationship more complex? As... |