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| Crackle and hiss on some albums How are you checking for dust? Visual inspection is futile unless the LP really is filthy. If you’re buying used LPs it may be that some are worn out; badly worn LPs can look perfectly ok by visual inspection. But if there’s simply gunk in the gro... | |
| Best investment; cartridge or line stage? Except the OP asked linestage vs cartridge, which seemed an odd dilemma. | |
| Technics SL-1200GAE or VPI HW-40 or …? As regards the idea that a mat should be of the same durometer (hardness) as an LP, one ought to keep in mind that that strategy is a two way street. Rumble or any other noise that can emanate from the bearing or motor can be transmitted into the ... | |
| AR-XB. Is it worth a new motor? Dear Elliot, Your last post is full of holes. First you say, in caps, that the majority of styli are worn on one edge only. Doesn’t that suggest that "the majority" of us have been using either too much or too little AS? So, if the AR-XB tonearm d... | |
| AR-XB. Is it worth a new motor? What Palasr said. Replace that capacitor. There’s probably enough friction at the pivot to provide some natural anti-skate. | |
| VPI Prime Sig/Lyra Delos / Feedback ...help! No way this has anything to do with tonearm wires. And yes, white is L channel hot, if it mattered. | |
| Thinking about switching cartridges. I do suppose with no supporting data that a synthetic diamond is mor likely to display those imperfections you describe than would a natural diamond, but it’s pure guessing. | |
| Cueing Lever Issue - Repairable or Replace? Do you have the owners manual? | |
| Thinking about switching cartridges. Which do you prefer, press fit or a big gob of glue? And which adds more superfluous mass to increase inertia? | |
| Thinking about switching cartridges. Tomic, I’ve had the 17D3 in my 505 with a CF headshell, possibly in my FR64S, also in CF headshell, and now in Viv Float in CF with shim. It sounds best in the Viv without a doubt. And now I will proceed to my fallout shelter. | |
| Thinking about switching cartridges. Unless you’re getting engaged, what difference does it make whether a diamond stylus is of natural or man made origin? None, IMO. | |
| Synergy Made me think of The Maestro, on Seinfeld. | |
| Thinking about switching cartridges. Not to put too fine a point in it, but doesn’t a stylus get polished by the groove and wouldn’t that process eventually negate or render irrelevant the factory original state of polish? Within the first 50-100 hours I would think. | |
| Questions Regarding Installing a Wheaton Triplanar On A SOTA Cosmos And of course if you really must have very low effective mass, there is always the ADC LFA2, 6g total. https://www.vinylengine.com/library/adc/lmf-2.shtml Three of my favorite cartridges have very high compliance, the Ortofon MC2000, which vexes... | |
| Questions Regarding Installing a Wheaton Triplanar On A SOTA Cosmos Pindac, Thank you very much for the URL. I have to wonder about the weight of those brass screws, since they are not included in the 5g total. Regardless, this CF headshell is lighter than any of mine. |