maxson
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| Vinyl static ionizers who's used them? Anybody order the Acaia? I did but won't be able to report for another few weeks. | |
| MM or MI Cartridge? I have a Viv 9" as well, with the carbon fiber tube. The Royal N hasn't spent that much time on it, I'll have to give it another chance. My favorite MM/MI's are all from the golden age of analog. The Denon 109D (with Jico stylus) is an exceptiona... | |
| Miyajima MADAKE experience Both the RS and Viv arms are pretty agnostic about cartridge compliance, working well with low and high. Not sure why that would be. | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm @intactaudio I did try the Sperling underhung, but I could only get it underhung by around 8mm. That way it did distort on the last track of some records. I'll try it on another turntable where I can get it to 15-20mm. | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm @rsf507 Right, I meant after adiusting the counterweights, I always return the arm to its rest before taking a measurement. Then I know the armtube is centered in the fluid bath. | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm @rsf507 Re: Roy Gregory's problems w VTF. I haven't had a problem with this as long as I return the armtube to it's resting postion, a magnet at the outside of the housing that meets a short rod on the underside of the armtube. By returning the ar... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm I could probably underhang my Sperling arm---like the Shroeder, it just has a bolt at the headshell to set offset angle. How large is your underhang with the Schroeder, Dave? With the RS Labs it was between 5 and 10mm. | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm On the comparison between CB and HA, from Roy Gregory's review on theaudiobeat with reference to "Carmen Fantaisie" [Decca SXL 2197]: "If we return once again to the Ricci recording to furnish our examples, the RF7 HA delivers the same, frictionl... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm @lewm I've never seen the arm roll as you describe. It takes a bit of twisting on my part to get it to leave its upright position. | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm Lew and Dave: The Viv armtube can slide back and forth in the direction of its length through the housing by about 1mm. It can rotate around the axis of the tube a few degrees and it can be lifted a couple of mm to the top of the housing, tho here... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm Interesting ideas. I have a RS Labs headshell. Need to give it a try on the Viv arm. | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm Happy owner here! I have the carbon fiber version in 9" length. To me it sounds a lot like the SME 3012R I have on the same table--very laid back, even-tempered. Unlike say the FR 64S, which is more in your face. Never noticed more distortion, l... | |
| Review of Quadratic MC-1 SUT With Comparisons to Other SUTs Thanks to this thread and TTVJ’s loaner program, I’ve had the Quadratic in house for a few days. Enjoying it a lot with the Dava cart. Will try Koetsu and Miyabi soon. @mulveling I found the low gain setting to be even purer and more open than the... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? I’ve been listening to the DaVa FC-1 (the lower-range model vs the Reference that MikeL has) for several months now. I bought it used with both SS and tubed power supplies and hadn’t bothered listening to the SS one until I saw this thread. After... | |
| SUT Opinions @cfarrow: the Miyajima has 38db from the phono stage--is there more gain from the line stage? |