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| How are you playing your precious MONO Vinyl? "Mono LPs pressed from 1948 until the early-mid 60’s have a groove width of 1mil. Mono LPs pressed after the mid 60’s and including current mono reissue LPs have a groove width of .07mil...a smaller groove width. " Not that it matters much, beca... | |
| How are you playing your precious MONO Vinyl? "Some believe that the presence of vertical content that is then summed introduces distortion and phase anomalies that are audible." Whether or not such distortions are "audible" is a matter for belief or individual acuity, but whether there is d... | |
| Rega reference belt disappointment Yep. Armorall, their original product, is now out of favor because it dries out the rubber even on tires. They do make other useful products. | |
| Your thoughts or experiences with two specific turntables: Thorens 124 DD vs SME Model 12 The OP is referring to the NEW TD124, which I didn’t know existed until now. Apparently it’s direct drive and therefore very different from the classic TD124, which is probably a good thing so far as I’m concerned. | |
| Rega reference belt disappointment In the long run, Armorall , at least the original product that makes rubber tires shiny, is not a good choice for a TT belt because it may make the belt slippery and also may dry it out prematurely. | |
| Why Use Aluminum for a TT Platter? Teres TTs were the last of the wood platter TTs, so far as I know. I think Chris is still available for comment. But these days there are no other examples. | |
| Where to start upgrading? Better to think about what makes a “good” cable and why in terms of the physics. That is a thorny set of questions because it depends upon the nature of the output of the driver and the input of the driven component. In my opinion it’s a bit less ... | |
| Vinyl playback - lack of bass? RB, after acknowledging my egregious error in saying that RBCD has a 22Hz cutoff , I went on to say that nevertheless RBCD seems to cut off unnaturally below some very low frequency. This is only how it sounds to me; not a fact of anyone else’s li... | |
| GRADO CARTRIDGE & TONEARM COMPATIBILITY The shimmy is most likely due to a peculiarity of the Grado suspension interacting with the tonearm. So no, I don’t think you need to worry with other cartridges. | |
| How are you playing your precious MONO Vinyl? Elliot, You wrote, "Everyone, the Aurorasound EQ-100 is uniquely different, from the manual: "When a stereo cartridge is used, any vertical signal on a record is cancelled by an internal circuit of EQ-100. Only the R+L horizontal signal are de... | |
| How are you playing your precious MONO Vinyl? Using a stereo cartridge on a mono LP is not going to harm the LP. No way. You won’t get the best possible SQ, but there is no harm done. However, many stereo LPs marketed at the dawn of the stereo era do say on the back of the cover, usually in... | |
| How are you playing your precious MONO Vinyl? Define “early”, because that’s where there is lots of controversy. | |
| How are you playing your precious MONO Vinyl? What is "EQ-100"? If you think you have a true mono cartridge, do try with vs without the mono switch engaged and let us know what you hear. At least some of the Beatles LPs originally came out on Parlophone in the UK and were mono to begin with.... | |
| Hexagonal spanner for Fidelity Research FR 66S tonearm This is an adjustable wrench. It has two flat parallel jaws that could engage that large nut with flat parallel sides. For good measure, protect the nut with tape before engaging it with such a wrench. "small metal rods". Are you referring to th... | |
| How are you playing your precious MONO Vinyl? I hope I did not say there are no "true" mono cartridges. I only refer to the type described. Still, the second caveat for comparing is valid; your particular mono cartridge may just be "better" or "worse" than your particular stereo cartridge. Th... |