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| Teres turntable motor problems Good idea to work with Thom at Galibier. I also wonder whether you could adapt the SOTA Eclipse motor system to the Teres. But it’s always easy to suggest a costly remedy for what might be a problem with an inexpensive solution. | |
| Step Up transformer FWIW, all phono stages ever made, whether solid state or tube, operate in class A. When manufacturers brag about that, it’s hype. I read the S’phile review of the ML 526. That is a very high end very expensive preamp that tested very well accordi... | |
| Step Up transformer This is just my personal preference, but if I find that the sound from a good LOMC is too rich or too lean or whatever, to the point that I can’t tolerate it, my course of action would be to change either the cartridge or the phono, rather then to... | |
| Step Up transformer What do you mean by “a big difference “? What is the output of your cartridge, and what is the max gain of your phono stage? That’s how to begin to think about whether a SUT might be beneficial. | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm The phase argument was originally yours. I don’t buy its importance either. We agree. | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm "TAE affects all frequencies but primarily high frequencies the distortion is not harmonically related at all as the distortion varies continuously as does TAE. All frequencies have a horizontal component except those in perfect mono dead center."... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm I did find some papers on this subject. Here is a long post from Vinyl Asylum. The author makes the good point that TAE affects only frequencies encoded in the horizontal plane (low frequencies), and he states that the distortion due to TAE is H... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm Mijostyn, It does not behoove you to use the term "scientific" in this context to justify any of your thinking on the subject. Your approach fails the scientific method on first principles. You are operating within a belief system that starts out ... | |
| Vinyl record storage in Harvey's office, Suits TV show The fictional Harvey probably has speakers built into the walls or on them. I’m in the middle years of the show but I think he did play music once or twice, jazz. | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm Mijostyn, please do a little more thinking before erupting. Zenith error has an equally destructive effect on alignments whether you’re using a UH tonearm or a conventional one. In both cases you lose null points and TAE is exacerbated. But, come... | |
| Vinyl record storage in Harvey's office, Suits TV show He’s got equipment there, but you don’t get to see it close up or the speakers either. Mijo, I don’t understand your remark about viagra, but Harvey is a high powered Wall Street lawyer, and we are not. I might have thought he’d hide the LPs just... | |
| Vinyl record storage in Harvey's office, Suits TV show I think I watch the show because it is a good show, because of the babes, and because of Megan Markel, the best of the babes. After that, maybe for Harvey's record storage devices. But I have noticed them, not so much because of their special de... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm Raul, You and others have successfully equated TAE with "distortion" in the minds of most, without ever having defined what sort of distortion might result from TAE and its audibility, apart from phase distortion, which I think is trivial compared... | |
| Vinyl record storage in Harvey's office, Suits TV show Could be IKEA, nothing special that I can see. | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm Barney, are you saying that the contents of this thread bear evidence that convinces you the Viv tonearm and other underhung tonearms are “worse than the disease” of antiskate? Or what? FYI, underhung tonearms do generate a skating force except a... |