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| Technics SP 10 Mk II a Albert, I am jealous that Bill installed fancy diodes in your Mk3. I may have to do it for myself in my Mk2A. But I am glad you are happy. Bill is a great guy, besides being supergood at what he does. (I see now that we both used the word "super" ... | |
| Technics SP 10 Mk II a Jax2 named a bunch of boutique film cap-makers. You only need to replace the electrolytics, not the film caps unless there is a specific problem. This is because your tt is pushing 30 years old, and this is beyond the normal life span of an electr... | |
| 2 turntables and one phono stage - Can I??? Almarg, I was in a way responding to the (good) point that you made. To do this properly, you need to isolate the lead carrying the "ground" side of the cartridge output (which as you correctly state is merely the other side of the coil from hot) ... | |
| Technics SP 10 Mk II a --Reliable? Repairable? Many if not most of the ICs in either a Mk II or a Mk2A are "unobtainium". You are no better off with a Mk II vs a Mk2A in that regard. Some have said that the MkII is more reliable than the Mk2A, but I have never seen an explanation for that cont... | |
| Anyone have any experience with the Naogoka MP110? It's not merely a matter of using the correct VTF. You also need to consider the effective mass of the tonearm. Somewhere in the lit that goes with your tt, Music Hall may reveal the figure for your tonearm. With a high compliance cartridge, you w... | |
| Anyone have any experience with the Naogoka MP110? A lot of this has as much to do with compliance as with "ride height". An MM, like the Nagaoka, will tend to have a high compliance. This translates into bottoming out on warped LPs, if the tonearm mass is not helping to damp the action of the can... | |
| The correct internal-inductance of Windfeld cart.? Axelwahl, You originally asked about inductance, not impedance. This naturally led some people to ask why you wanted that information, since the proper loading of your cartridge is easiest to calculate based on the square of its turns ratio of the... | |
| Raven One Motor Noise Problem Ebm, Apparently you have never read Edgar Allen Poe. (Could not resist the opportunity for some levity.) | |
| Raven One Motor Noise Problem Without ever having seen a Raven One, but just from my past experience with turntable motors, I do not think that your experiment proves that your motor is OK. It would seem to me that the motor should not need a Vibrapod to make it quiet, and I d... | |
| Cardas Frequency Sweep and Burn-In Record ? Tracks 2a, b, and c (I think) are great for reviving a cartridge that may be broken in but has not been used for several weeks. | |
| 2 turntables and one phono stage - Can I??? FWIW, with respect to Almarg's comment, you should probably use a DPDT switch, so as to switch both sides of the two cartridges simultaneously. There should be no problem with that. The shield would be separated from the so-called "hot" and "groun... | |
| 2 turntables and one phono stage - Can I??? As Sidssp inferred, you COULD use a splitter, if you also used a switch, so that the phono circuit was only "seeing" one of the two cartridges at any one time, or to put the same concept in another way, so that the cartridge you are listening to w... | |
| Tripods as turntable or component base? Hifigeezer, With all due respect, Stereo Review was a rag. But Mike Fremer did use accelerometer(s) to evaluate the Finite Elemente and the Monaco Grand Prix stands and reported his results in Stereophile. His tests generated quite a furor among d... | |
| Tables That Feature Bearing Friction Berlinta, T_bone, Raul, Dave, et al: Do you all except Dertonarm's contention that belt drive is the inherently superior way to motivate a platter, compared to all forms of idler- or direct-drive and notwithstanding theoretical air propulsion? It ... | |
| Tables That Feature Bearing Friction Dertonarm, You are entitled to your opinion, but please acknowledge that you DO have an opinion - that the ultimate turntable must have a humongous platter driven by a string or thread. That is an agenda in itself. You have closed your mind to oth... |