mijostyn
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| Did vinyl sales just hit the proverbial brick wall? @yoyoyaya , That would be wonderful but that is not what I have seen and as a family doc I spoke with a lot of young people. Record sales were bound to pick up as boomers got wealthy. The children of boomers had some exposure so there is some inte... | |
| Keeping Track of Vinyl Playback Time Like @ghdprentice I don't and my turntable keeps track of playing time. Not all styluses are created equal. Then they are also subject to a variety of conditions. The only real way to keep track of stylus wear is to look at the stylus once in a wh... | |
| Do I buy an upscale TT? @fsonicsmith A great tonearm with a great cartridge on a competent drive will do the trick. You have to consider the cartridge and tonearm as one unit. The variation in the quality of cartridges is quite substantial. The more expensive cartridg... | |
| Proximity Hum And How To Eliminate It @alan60 , Inductive hum is very hard to stop. This is one of the reasons toroidal transformers are so popular, they are less prone to doing this. Just for fun, is the power transformer a toroid? This may seem counterintuitive but try floating th... | |
| Did vinyl sales just hit the proverbial brick wall? @grislybutter , my kids are millennials and grew up listening to everything and the only one interested in a turntable is my son in law. You see hardly any interest in Zoomers. A record store will give you a false impression because you have isola... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm @lewm , Never second guess a tool collector. The only thing I am lacking are the LPs. Go to Channel D's web site and check out Mac the Scope and Waavebox. I use a calibrated microphone and an audio analytic program to measure the output of the sy... | |
| Did vinyl sales just hit the proverbial brick wall? @bigtwin , I'll drink to that! | |
| Do I buy an upscale TT? A turntable should not add ANYTHING to the sound quality. The most important attributes a turntable can have are lack of noise, isolation from the outside world, pitch consistency and speed accuracy. Pitch consistency requires unwavering speed and... | |
| Did vinyl sales just hit the proverbial brick wall? The resurgence was always going to end as the baby boomers fade out into history. Young people for the most part are only interested in music if they can play it on their telephone. They may progress to a streaming system as they get older, but I ... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm @lewm , You have to be kidding me Lew. After all I have said about measurement microphones, digital signal processing, and crazy microscopes? I measure everything that affects the performance of my system. If you don't you are out to sea without a... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm @alan60 , It doesn't which is why I own a Schroder CB. Mr Schroder would argue that the string is pulled so tight by the neodymium magnets that it is essentially rigid. Anti skate is applied by twisting the string. The arm is also naturally dampen... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm @rauliruegas , I did not say that all new technology is better, but as a whole technology moves on and the equipment we have today is far superior the the equipment we had in the 60's. The trend is unmistakable. @pindac , I do not deal in snobbe... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm @pindac , Sorry pindac but you must live on a different planet. Just look at this discussion. Humans are endlessly competing with others and even themselves. At the route of it all is our survival instinct. If I did not compete with myself I would... | |
| phono cartridge help @1jafa , Good choice. Where in NH are you? I'm in Atkinson just north of Haverhill, MA. | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm @dogberry Yes dogberry, distortion above a certain level is quite audible especially if it is not low order harmonic. Lower levels of distortion may be audible by people who know what to listen for. This has nothing to do with evaluating the low ... |