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| Air Tight Supreme compared to PC-1 The drop in gain should be "noticeable" but unimportant if your phono preamp has sufficient headroom. If you are right on the edge with 0.6mV, you might not be happy with an 0.4mV output.Albert loves the PC1, as Mike infers. | |
| Turntable Speed If the Transrotor motor is indeed a DC type, as you suggest above, I don't think that a typical after-market motor controller (e.g., the Walker Audio PMC or the VPI SDS) will help your problem. The ones I know about are made to control AC synchono... | |
| Soundsmith "The Voice"? Starer, would you care to tell us what other cartridges you have used in your present system, so we know what you are comparing to the Voice? Thanks. I'm interested too. | |
| SOTA Millennia - Comments? FWIW, I owned a Sota Star Sapphire Series III (with vacuum), which was a product of the original Sota company, for most of the 1990s. Even when I owned it, I had the feeling that the bass response was a little on the "woolly" or muddy side and I c... | |
| Vintage Denon Direct Drive Turntable Raul, I would like you to listen to a state-of-the-art restored idler tt, e.g., a Garrard 301/401 or a Lenco L75 in a proper plinth, using one of your own tonearms and cartridges. Your opinion of how these tts compare to BDs and DDs in your experi... | |
| Bluebook for used records? There is a well known catalog, called Goldmine's. Maybe you can find it via Google. I don't know if it lists the very obscure recordings you seem to want to know about, but maybe it does. Estimated values are given for every cut or re-issue of a g... | |
| Vintage Denon Direct Drive Turntable If you know that the Denon DP80 bearing is sapphire, then you know more than I was ever able to find on the subject, or anyone else here. Thanks. I am going to try to get to visit a slate cutter on Friday. (He has a CNC machine and is just getting... | |
| Vintage Denon Direct Drive Turntable Treehugga, I don't know what the "world's finest slate" is. I did see many months ago a long drawn out argument between Jonathan Weiss of OMA and the Slate Deck guy in the UK, over whose slate was "finer". OMA use Pennsylvania slate; I am told by ... | |
| Vintage Denon Direct Drive Turntable You can buy a slab of two-inch thick PA slate from any of several sources and have it shipped to you anywhere in the US for a total cost of less than $500, maybe much less than $500 if you don't have to pay shipping. After that you need to find so... | |
| Two Arm Turntables Around $2100 for a Giant direct-coupled Lenco plinth, if you do nothing yourself but pay for it. Check out Jean Nantais via the Lenco thread (Home Despot). For a little more effort and similar expense you could have a Lenco remounted in a steel to... | |
| Vintage Denon Direct Drive Turntable Kcc123, It's quite possible that the sorbothane liner will work out well, but I have never been fond of sorbothane "feet". One thing to consider is the factors that govern energy transfer between dissimilar materials. At the interface energy will ... | |
| Koetsu vs Dynavector OK. The un-examined phono stage is not worth listening to. This is just a hobby; these devices are just interesting toys that have the added benefit of producing great music. | |
| Koetsu vs Dynavector Thoreau quoted Socrates in "On Walden Pond". My bad, | |
| Vintage Denon Direct Drive Turntable Does this forum have a search engine? If so, try searching on the word "plinth". If not, go to Vinyl Asylum and do a similar search. Also, scroll down the list of threads on this Analog section and look for threads about Garrard, Lenco, Technics S... | |
| Koetsu vs Dynavector That was Henry David Thoreau, unless he was quoting Socrates. Perhaps this is a "fact". |