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| Mapleshade integrated Record COUPLING System I think Randyhat (great name but hard to imagine) wanted to know about the Mapleshade product. The thread has turned into a referendum on the VPI ring clamp. Like Randy, I too would like to hear from anyone who has had a go at the Mapleshade produ... | |
| What's the story with Japanese pressings? Ditto on the quality of the jazz LP copies of Verve, Blue Note, Bethlehem, Riverside, etc. Many of them are mono to keep faith with the originals, and the album covers are so exact replicas of the originals that one has to look carefully for the f... | |
| Teres Audio Verus Direct Couples Motor, Anyone? Thanks, Doug. As my singing teachers could tell you, I am NOT blessed with perfect pitch. I wonder how the Verus works with a Garrard 301. There are some who have gone that route. The Lenco idler wheel is covered in a very thin rubber-like materia... | |
| Teres Audio Verus Direct Couples Motor, Anyone? I think Agaffer is susggesting that the drag of the stylus will cause speed irregularities, but that's the whole point of idler and direct-drive; both technologies should (when properly implemented) be much more immune to stylus drag effects than ... | |
| Teres Audio Verus Direct Couples Motor, Anyone? There is a very favorable review just posted on Vinyl Asylum by an experienced listener. Doug, your first post kind of suggests that your particular Verus was defective in some way (maybe an out of round O-ring), but then you go on to suggest that... | |
| My slow descent into retro MC madness... What made you think that you must use a SUT to get optimal performance from the Denon? I see no reason for using a SUT unless your phono stage does not have gain enough to amplify the output of the Denon adequately. If you own several phono stages... | |
| Help,Allaerts or Transfiguration Just a thought. If you use a SUT, that should protect the Allaerts from DC coming back from the phono stage. In an SE phono stage, the cartridge is wired between the grid of the input tube (or the gate of the transistor) and ground. Don't know abo... | |
| Good turntables w/o record clamps Dcstep, Then you would agree with my inference that the decision to use a clamp will be in part determined by the nature of the record mat (or the absence of one in your case).More controversial to me is the advent of ring clamps used to hold LPs ... | |
| Good turntables w/o record clamps Pawlowski, A clamp could (in theory) transmit bearing and/or motor noise into the record, causing smearing of the audio signal. Obviously, warped records might benefit from the use of a clamp. However, I own a Sota reflex clamp which is/was touted... | |
| Good turntables w/o record clamps The clamp is kind of a "tweak". As with all tweaks, there will be some who swear by it and some who hate it or are indifferent to its use. So, in the end with any table, it will be a matter of your own opinion based on your own listening. Having s... | |
| Stand out phono stages Banpuku, Maybe you ought to re-evaluate the other preamps with a 10K load on your cartridge. Perhaps it is the cartridge that is working optimally into the Lyra piece but not so well with the 100-ohm load afforded by the other gear you tested.Alth... | |
| Aesthetix Io Sig vs Manley Steelhead-opinions pls I think I do know what you mean; it's one thing that vinyl definitely does "better" than digital, in that the silence on vinyl sounds more real (to me, anyway). | |
| An Audiophile Goal Picking up on what others have said, and I hope adding to it, instead of driving yourself nuts trying to "equalize" your room, there is a fairly reasonable path to your goal, costwise, using digital equalizers. Several of these have been reviewed ... | |
| Aesthetix Io Sig vs Manley Steelhead-opinions pls It so happens that on the wall of my office, I have a Chinese letter painting that depicts the Chinese name bestowed upon me by my friend who created it, in black inkbrush. The white background is printer paper from Staples. Wonder how THAT sounds... | |
| Denon DL103R with Shindo Monbrison BTW,if the combo is not a good one in stock configuration, it is probable that a little soldering of a few resistors and maybe a v small cap will make the match work fine. SUTs, like all other transformers, do not have an intrinsic impedance; they... |