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| Anxiety help needed. New instal of Hana ML Elliot, the OP has a slightly deviated cantilever. We know nothing about zenith or azimuth. True, the very slight deviation in cantilever can be compensated for during alignment using the grids provided on the Doctor F and most other protractors. ... | |
| Anxiety help needed. New instal of Hana ML The observation was made while playing an LP or during installation? If the former, check and adjust antiskate. If the latter, and because it sounds fine, ignore it. We all prefer to see a cantilever perfectly aligned with the long axis of the car... | |
| Has This Kind of Tonearm Been Made? The original Rabco actually makes tiny arcs as it moves across the LP surface. That was necessary to activate the micro switch that triggered the motor to move the pivot toward the spindle. So it isn’t a pure linear tracker. Also, the motor could ... | |
| Has This Kind of Tonearm Been Made? The Goldmund T8F (I think that is the correct alphanumeric designation) was a Rabco copy but perhaps with better execution. Also, there are a bunch of hobbyist fans of the Rabco, some of whom have made some improvements to the original design. M... | |
| Has This Kind of Tonearm Been Made? Rabco SL8E. | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm So if you ever get to listen to the Viv Lab tonearm under conditions that are familiar to you from past experience, and if you can manage to divorce yourself from pre-formed opinion, I would be very interested to know what you think of it. Until t... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm Yes, I now recall that you did mention somewhere in the past that you owned an RS-A1. I've never sold mine, but I don't use it for reasons stated. However, it too sounds better than it should given its shortcomings when you compare it to conventi... | |
| Step Up transformer Cool idea! But I don’t think the Grail lacks sufficient gain for the cartridges listed. The motivation toward a SUT appears to be purely to enhance SQ. Although mating a 40 ohm cartridge to the Grail may be a source of dissatisfaction to begin wi... | |
| Step Up transformer Yes, you definitely would need a conventional voltage driven phono with MM capability in order to insert a SUT into your system. But the VdH Grail is reputed to be superb, so I don’t know why you’d even consider it. On the other hand, I personally... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm Dear Raul, I often have a problem to figure out in what way you are questioning my opinions or abilities, because of the language barrier. In this case, it seems you are saying that I am incapable of discerning what are to you and some others obv... | |
| Teres turntable motor problems Not sure why you are giving up on your present motor unless you found out fixing it was prohibitively expensive, but the gains associated with tight speed control afforded by the SOTA Eclipse system are not trivial. In other words you’re not just ... | |
| Teres turntable motor problems In the Phoenix Engineering set-up, the sensor is set in a fixed position under the outer edge of the circle described on the surface of the plinth by the platter floating above it. Then a magnet is fixed to the underside of the platter, at its out... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm I found this interesting treatise on tonearm alignment in the context of a review of the Triplanar tonearm by Dick Olsher, which appeared in S'phile. If you read it to the end, his comments on the consequences of TAE are of note. He also brings i... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm Raul, I saw his comment, too. Let the author defend it. | |
| Teres turntable motor problems I am using the antecedent Phoenix Engineering system, which is the Eclipse minus the motor, on my Lenco, very happily, as are many others. The only concern would be whether you can fit the Hall sensor that monitors platter speed, in between the bo... |