mijostyn
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| What Does It Take To Surpass A SME V? @mulveling , That is wrong. When you lighten the counterweight you drop both the horizontal and vertical EFs. You might be able to live with this discrepancy but it will adversely affect performance. | |
| What Does It Take To Surpass A SME V? @lewm , there are people ready to try anything to make their product stand out. Separating vertical and horizontal resonance by a little avoids there being one large peak, you get two smaller ones but blended together. In the case of the ET2 and o... | |
| What Does It Take To Surpass A SME V? You can rest assured that when I behave this way there is no reasonable alternative, just wishful thinking. | |
| What Does It Take To Surpass A SME V? @atmasphere , sure but it does not change the fact that the horizontal EF far exceeds the vertical EF. You still have to counter balance the cartridge. @pindac, It is not fantastical thinking pindac. It is rational thinking based on 5 decades of ... | |
| Looking for some turntable/tonearm/cartridge guidance @coreyt @lewm has exactly the right idea. I had a close look at your turntable. The Michell arm and the RB3000 are VERY similar. I bet they both have the same spindle to pivot distance which is 222 mm. Making an arm board is child's play if you ... | |
| End Game Turntable suggestions @musicmatters1206 , It all depends on the design of the turntable. Forget about price. There are many super expensive tables that are not designed as well as the Thorens or the RP10 for that matter. It is really not that expensive to make a decen... | |
| Looking for some turntable/tonearm/cartridge guidance Hi coreyt, The Moerch is one of the worst tonearms made. You are far better off with the Technoarm 2. If that is not available get a Rega RB3000. It is very similar to the Technoarm and will handle the Hana beautifully. The Moerch fails because i... | |
| Speakers that are good with tubes @pinotnoir , greetings. I too have Soundlab speakers and have been waiting patiently for my pair of Atma-Sphere MA 2s for 6 months. We have a very special situation. Our speakers range from 30 ohms in the bass to less than 1 ohm at 20 kHz. The Atm... | |
| What Does It Take To Surpass A SME V? @dover , I'm sorry but your take on the situation is wrong. Don't believe me, discuss it with a mechanical engineer. @pindac , the outright performance of a turntable is not a matter of aesthetics, it is one of sound mechanical engineering unders... | |
| End Game Turntable suggestions I think the Thorens or the Rega with the best cartridge you can afford is the way to go. Saving $2400 on the Thorens adds that much to the cartridge kitty. If you can get into something like the Ortofon Windfeld Ti or the Lyra Kleos you would be l... | |
| Cartridge Alignment I believe Michael Fremer has a cartridge set up video. If you can spin a screw driver and use a pair of tweezers you can do it. As long as the stylus guard is on the cartridge it is hard to hurt anything. Never overtighten anything. You just want ... | |
| What Does It Take To Surpass A SME V? @dover, here you go again with that "decoupling the mass" nonsense. You can not tune that arm to any cartridge. It is physically impossible. Anything that is hung off that arm is mass that has to be accounted for. If you do not want the mass of th... | |
| What Does It Take To Surpass A SME V? @dover , you are making excuses for a defective design. I will say this much less politely than atmasphere, who is a gentleman and a scholar. The ET2 and all air bearing arms like it are not suitable in any way, shape or fashion for high fidelity ... | |
| What is the best way to clean Vinyl? The least expensive vacuum unit is probably the way to go. There are numerous ways to put fluid on the record and brushes to use. It is drying the record and removing all the residue that is critical. Air or fan drying is a bad idea. Regular dist... | |
| What Does It Take To Surpass A SME V? @lewm , I live in a bathroom community glued to the side of the greater metropolitan Boston area. I also have an excavation company in my back yard. Can't see them but I can hear them all day long if I walk outside. I hear and see them running ins... |