lewm
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| What's inside the plinth of your Garrard 401? Get the 60Hz pulley, but don't buy the cheap version, which I believe is sold on eBay (but I could be wrong; the one on eBay could be perfectly OK). Search some of the Garrard websites for guidance on which reproduction 60Hz pulley to purchase; I ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Raul, Altho I don't agree with your (rather negative) assessment of either Koetsu cartridges (at least as regards the Urushi) or the Triplanar tonearm, U da man. Still, you are talking about the results in your system (which is hugely different fr... | |
| rhea better with high or low output MC? Viiu, I have to disagree with your advice to a relative novice regarding buying tubes on eBay. eBay is a quagmire when it comes to tube buying. I have been ripped off more often than not, and I have stopped using eBay as a source. Perhaps you have... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Raul, Have you considered that all your tonearms with removeable head shells and interchangeable arm tubes may compromise the performance of a really good LOMC? You are placing one or more additional physical contacts in the path of a signal that ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Raul, Thank you for your thoughtful treatise. You speak of compliance as if higher is always better. I have been giving this a lot of thought, too. Suppose we take an auto analogy. If you drive a car with no suspension or a very stiff one (i.e., l... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II I tried to verify this via the internet but could not find the relevant information plainly stated. However, is it not the case that Quartz-control is a subset of servo control? IOW, quartz control is a servo using a quartz-based oscillator as a r... | |
| Magnetization & Demagnetization any conclusions? Sirspeedy, Except inadvertantly by touching something during handling of the LP in the process of demagnetizing it, I don't see how the demagnetizer per se would affect static electric charge on the LP. Someone else mentioned this previously; the ... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Jean, What about the Denon DP80 and the earlier DP6000? One can defeat their speed correction mechanism easily and try them both ways. Plus I think they compete with any that you mentioned as regards quality of construction and thoughtful design. ... | |
| Magnetization & Demagnetization any conclusions? Doug, What do you hear that's different or better when you de-magnetize an LP? How often do you de-magnetize a given LP? I am fascinated by this subject. | |
| Koetsu Restoration Genesis said it all. | |
| 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... |