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| JBL New Motor Drive Turntable at HiEnd Asia Singapore Show! It's not that unusual for a turntable to be driven by a motor. | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm Why are you so angry? | |
| Still looking for a new Moving Coil Cartridge Neither you nor I nor most of the rest of us, regardless of experience, have the capacity to account for a zenith error; there are no readily available tools to use for that purpose. I have a feeling there soon will be, from either Wally Tools or ... | |
| Still looking for a new Moving Coil Cartridge Why would a spherical stylus be safer for LPs? Maybe in part because zenith error is not an issue. Safer yet is to leave your valuable LPs on the shelf. Don’t play them at all! This is getting ridiculous. | |
| Sometimes, things go right with impulse purchases. Loud enough for me. | |
| Sometimes, things go right with impulse purchases. Not all tube phono stages have audible hiss at normal listening levels. I own two that don't. | |
| Quandry I’ll take the contrary view that you should go ahead and invite a knowledgeable person into your home to check out the whole setup. While he’s there, pick his brain; make him teach you. One good reason to take this route is you may have some other... | |
| Sometimes, things go right with impulse purchases. Agree with Ozzy. | |
| Rechecking Cartridge Alignment Let's all keep in mind that alignment is futile unless the zenith angle (the relationship between the stylus and the cantilever, viewed from above) is such that the stylus is perfectly square to the long axis of the cantilever. If not, you are de... | |
| cleaning gritty surface noise on LPs Could that “something” that happened to make LPs noisy have anything to do with using one or more of those LAST products? Perhaps a very long term effect manifested after a few decades? I don’t have an opinion; just wondering out loud. | |
| Still looking for a new Moving Coil Cartridge Stereo5, Nagaoka, Goldring, Grace, AT, etc, will make your rock records sing, in part depending upon your tonearm, phono stage, amplifiers, and speakers. The world is full of good cartridges. Hana can do it too, but MC cartridges in your budget te... | |
| cleaning gritty surface noise on LPs Ethanol and isopropanol (one or the other, ethanol preferred) are beneficial additives to an LP cleaning solution along with a nonionic detergent. If you’re using pure water alone, your solution cannot dissolve oils or lift and solubilize dirt dee... | |
| Still looking for a new Moving Coil Cartridge There are far too many variables from one cartridge to another to enable one to say that a stiffer cantilever, per se, makes for better bass. One way to get relevant data would be to buy two samples of the same cartridge, both bearing what you de... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm Mijo, I have to apologize. Of course you have every right to choose where to spend your bucks and to reject one innovative approach in favor of another. As you know, I waited to buy the Viv Float until we were in Tokyo, and at a time when the yen ... | |
| Rechecking Cartridge Alignment Define "professionally". Do you have a decent protractor, stylus force gauge, and etc, that you once used to align this cartridge? If so, just do it again. Your work is bound to be as meticulous as anyone else's in your immediate vicinity, becau... |