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| VPI setup This $12.50 "New Version Professional LP Digital Turntable Stylus Force Scale Gauge led - US" on eBay will work just fine. | |
| Good, better, best. VPI Classic 1 accessories and upgrades. I suggest also that you look at the VPI Prime. Also, you might consider a less expensive PSU than the SDS, perhaps the Falcon. The center weight is meant to work with the peripheral weight. If you're not getting the latter, you would be better off... | |
| Best Vinyl Bach - Solo Cello Suites recording? Above I meant Mercury Golden Imports reissue. Sorry. | |
| Why are records still warped? A 180g record, while offering no advantages (except marketing, perhaps) requires more time to cool down. Failure to allow sufficient time for cooling down seems to be a major cause of warping.Actually, if most of your records are 120g or so, 180g ... | |
| Best Vinyl Bach - Solo Cello Suites recording? I cannot tell you how the Mercury Living Preference reissue of the Starker compares with the Speakers Corner, but I can tell you that it is very, very good. Should be relatively inexpensive as a used set. | |
| CPI super platter vs. Classic aluminum platter Yes, that's the theoretical advantage I wrote of. But as a practical matter, given the solid performing longevity of standard oil bath bearing TTs out there, I fail to see a practical advantage of the inverted type, unless it's in the cost of manu... | |
| CPI super platter vs. Classic aluminum platter There is no anger here. I respect and admire VPI. They have been making great products for a long time and their customer support has no peer. Yet like many others in the high end they often make changes for economic reasons, or for regulatory rea... | |
| CPI super platter vs. Classic aluminum platter That's just so much BS. Of curse he can make a non-inverted bearing. He did so for many years. There are VPI tables made with non-inverted bearings that have been working perfectly for almost 40 years. Not to mention tables of other manufacturers.... | |
| CPI super platter vs. Classic aluminum platter Interesting. Notwithstanding any possible theoretical advantages, I have never understood the practical advantages of inverting the bearing. Like many other changes, I wonder whether its main purpose is reducing production costs.The original non-i... | |
| VPI, Graham, Koetsu advice please I don't think the problem is with the platter, though shifting to an aluminum platter will change the sound. IIRC the Well Tempered has an acrylic platter and the VPI Mk iii has a combination platter with acrylic on top. So acrylic should not be t... | |
| Evaluation of the Coincident Statement Phono Stage "I recognized that tell-tell signature of a SUT in the chain."Can you expand on this please? How would you describe the signature of a SUT? Thanks. | |
| Original VPI Aries vs VPI classic 3 I have an original, but updated TNT. If you have an original Aries, you have the acrylic-lead-aluminum platter. I would not change it for the current aluminum platter in any form. IMO, and that of many others, what you have is superior. I have two... | |
| How effective is the ultrasonic V-8 lp cleaner? Can someone tell us what the frequency in kHz of the V-8 is?Thanks. | |
| High End cartridges and the built quality Yes, at these prices there is no excuse, except audiophile tolerance.I have seen many microscopic pictures of Peter Ledermann's work at Soundsmith and they look a great deal more precise than the ones you show. | |
| Why are records still warped? I think most records are warped, more or less. Take a "non" warped record and observe a reflection of a light on its surface as it turns and you'll see. IMHO we should all use ring weights and center weights when our TT allows. Improves a lot of t... |