melm
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| Buying a new TT today I start with 2 positions that some folks will disagree with. For analog reproduction the turntable is the most important purchase. And, at a given price point (anywhere near what you would like to spend), a belt drive will provide better SQ than a... | |
| Azimuth 2020 @cleeds "If the pickup arm’s pivot angle is perpendicular to the offset"What is a pivot angle and how can an angle be perpendicular to anything? I fear you are in over your head. Just as well that this matter be dropped. | |
| Azimuth 2020 @cleeds "When I stated that azimuth is a completely different angle than VTA and that adjusting one doesn’t alter the other, I should have added "in a properly designed, manufactured and installed pickup arm." I’ll be more careful with that next t... | |
| I finally get it! oldears has got it right. A 1 mm difference in pivot point can easily be accounted for by any protractor with the exception of the expensive "arc" ones that are adjusted to the theoretical distance rather than the actual distance.Theoretics aside,... | |
| Higher sample rate than 16 bit redbook Upsampling can be done easily in software. I use the function within JRiver. But it can be had in free software. You don't have to buy any hardware. | |
| Azimuth 2020 Ii don't think the korfaudio article says very much. For example: "Consequently, any tonearm that does not have azimuth adjustment is severely deficient". I would say that if it doesn't have an EASY adjustment it is defective.In my experience th... | |
| Azimuth 2020 @cleeds,"Your claim can only be accurate if the pickup arm (or turntable) itself is not "true." That is, the arm cannot be raised or lowered while also remaining absolutely perpendicular to the turntable platter.Or perhaps, like mijostyn, you don... | |
| Azimuth 2020 @cleeds,"VTA and azimuth are two completely independent angles." Only with a tangential tonearm, not with a pivoted, offset, one. The effect may be minor, depending on the degree of offset, but it's there. | |
| Azimuth 2020 It's interesting when one compares "industrial" cartridges with hand-made ones. Generally speaking the industrial ones like Audio Technica, for example, will usually line up symmetrically very well and generally better than the hand-made ones.Wit... | |
| Azimuth 2020 @fuzztone, You don’t need Puffin. You don’t need a test record. People have been doing it essentially that way for decades.All you need is any old mono record. You flip the wires on one channel of your cartridge. You are then playing the mono reco... | |
| Azimuth 2020 @fuzztone"there is a new kid on the block that DOES give you crosstalk figures in .1 db" And who is that? Did I miss something? Thanks. | |
| VPI Speed Controller You say you have a "very old SDS." Some VERY old VPI speed controllers are not SDSs. So what do you have exactly?Were it up to me I would prefer an old SDS to the more recent ADS units.The best controller you can buy for the VPI is sold by SOTA a... | |
| Add an external DAC. Make my Oppo UDP-205 a true top player @jagYou write: "btw, the LKS is no longer available" But I see it is available from Amazon, apos.audio, shenzhenaudio and various ebay sellers. How did you come to this conclusion. And why?Also the LKS mini dac (similar but just one DAC chip) f... | |
| Add an external DAC. Make my Oppo UDP-205 a true top player Did I say discrete jpeg? It's been a long day: Discrete JFET. | |
| Add an external DAC. Make my Oppo UDP-205 a true top player Agree that a separate DAC is a much better deal than an expensive mod of your Oppo. My Oppo is a 105 and I chose an LKS MH-DA004. Monster linear power supply, dual DAC chips, 3 femtoclocks, discrete jpeg analog stage and built like a brick. About ... |