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| Questions Regarding Installing a Wheaton Triplanar On A SOTA Cosmos Ralph, if memory serves my TP would not fit properly, which is to say so that the arm wand would not overhang the platter when at rest using a plinth where the Technics chassis sits above the plinth surface. If one has a plinth designed to sink th... | |
| Questions Regarding Installing a Wheaton Triplanar On A SOTA Cosmos I once owned a Star Sapphire III and still own a Triplanar. I believe the topology of the Cosmos is identical to the SS. Your answer is no. It won’t work, because the VTA tower on the TP gets in the way. I’m sure Mijostyn will chime in. TP now off... | |
| Some cartridge recommendations Backwash, There are many MI cartridges that will work well with 50db gain or even a bit less. IMO, after many decades in this hobby and after many many cartridges have passed through my hands, you are much better off with an affordable MM or MI c... | |
| Some cartridge recommendations Backwash, just to revisit the question of phono gain, you say your Modwright has MM and MC inputs. Then you go on to say gain is fixed at 50 db. That is not enough gain far an average LOMC cartridge, and it is way short of adequate for the MC10, w... | |
| A phono preamp with equalization selector Here is the HK Festival monaural tube tuner from early 1950s. My memory of its built in equalization curves was faulty; the photos show "Eur", "RIAA", and "LP", not Columbia or Decca. I wonder what were the differences between Eur or LP vs RIAA.... | |
| A phono preamp with equalization selector Look up the Harmon Kardon Festival monaural receiver. That’s what my parents had as of the early 50s, even predates the unit shown above. As I mentioned, it provided a choice of EQ curves including RIAA, Columbia, Decca, and maybe one other. I’m g... | |
| Some cartridge recommendations If the SP10 was purchased new by your grandfather and if it’s never been serviced and/or was in storage for many years, you might want to consider having it evaluated for speed constancy and etc. Check speed with any inexpensive strobe device. If ... | |
| A phono preamp with equalization selector GHD, You say "used in the 40s and 50s". For most of the 1940s, the 33 rpm LP as we know it today did not yet exist. I think the very first such records were produced in 1948-49. It was the introduction of this then new technology that necessita... | |
| Some cartridge recommendations To unleash the expected flood of bewildering recommendations, what is your budget? Also, try to find out what is the effective mass of your tonearm plus headshell. (If you're using the OEM SME headshell, then usually the mass of the headshell is... | |
| Humminguru record cleaner Still using VPI, if that’s important. Until someone proves to my satisfaction that repeated ultrasonic cleaning does not damage the high frequencies encoded on an LP, I will stick with a conventional RCM, like the VPI. | |
| Humminguru record cleaner FWIW, ultrasonic stylus cleaners are not “ultrasonic”, if you define it as beyond range of hearing. They operate at about 500 Hz. I once compared US cleaning to cleaning with my VPI HW17, using DI water, alcohol, and TX100 in the VPI. I used a fa... | |
| Rega Planar 3 50th anniversary To find motor, start at the platter edge and follow the belt until you come to a pulley. That’s the motor. | |
| A phono preamp with equalization selector Of course that is possible, but do you think it really has to do with the "1980s"? More likely that a single particular recording regardless of the time line, might by chance sound "better" using an equalization curve other than RIAA. (And Columb... | |
| A phono preamp with equalization selector You peaked my curiosity as to whether there is some new information pertaining to equalization curves used in the earliest decade or so of 33 rpm vinyl LPs. (So this has nothing whatever to do with any record that is not in that category.) You m... | |
| A phono preamp with equalization selector You must be a youngster. 60s and 70s were the haydays of vinyl and by then all companies pretty much had settled on RIAA equalization. You have to go back to the 50s and late 40s (the advent of the 33rpm LP) for divergence in equalization. I alway... |