mijostyn
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| Early SOTA vs New Something: Conundrum @lewm , Lew, I think you need to read my posts a little more carefully. I said that I am not familiar with the drives of DD turntables. I pay no attention to them because they were so bad, initially at least, that my meager brain can not get up th... | |
| Tonearm/Cartridge pairing. @martinguitars , Never assume the settings on a pre calibrated arm are accurate. Always measure. Same holds for specifications which is why a test record (HiFi News Analog Test Record) is so important. Never assume. Measure! The bearings on a ton... | |
| Contact Enhancer Q45T @agisthos , this is no audiophile engineering debate. It is not even the Muppets. The path to an excellent system lies elsewhere, simple fact. This is all wishful thinking by people with a poor science background. Save your money for better equ... | |
| Tonearm/Cartridge pairing. Compliance is listed in um/mN. The Goldring is British and measures compliance at 10 Hz. 20 um/mN @ 10 Hz would be a medium compliance cartridge and should be OK in your arm if it is operating correctly and the bearings are in decent shape. The on... | |
| Contact Enhancer Q45T I just got back from www.contactenhancer.com. Anybody who believes this BS needs to take a basic electricity course. This is just using ones own poor understanding of psychoacoustics to make money. It is just as bad as the trash the pharmaceutical... | |
| Ortofon MC Cartridge Problems ?? There has to be a post mortem exam on the cartridge. If the cantilever is snapped in half the most likely problem is the operator or tonearm set up. If the cantilever is missing entirely then it was not mounted correctly and it is a manufacturing ... | |
| Acoustic Curtain for listening area You might be able to stop higher frequencies this way but not anything below 250 Hz. It would have to be very heavy light blocking and layered. Your best bet is to have them custom made. If you go to your local fabric store to pick out your fabric... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? @lewm , digital is more accurate. There can be no doubt about this. It is superior in every and all measurable parameters. This says nothing about "sounding better." Beauty is in the ear of the beholder. @rauliruegas , My wood comment pertains ... | |
| Early SOTA vs New Something: Conundrum @lewm , Where you talking to me, the Bullocks part? I said the Eclipse motor is just as accurate as any direct drive. There are numerous ways to control a DD motor but I am not familiar enough with any of them to comment. I am just going by the sp... | |
| Early SOTA vs New Something: Conundrum @yogiboy , Thanx. I thought that line came from Dirty Harry rsf507, motors do not have "pace" as long as they are spinning at the right speed. Variations in motor speed cause changes in pitch long before you would notice a change in "pace." We ca... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? @solypsa, again, this is my personal experience and guides my own cartridge purchases. I have had two wooden bodied cartridges and their sonic performance was not as good as (read colored) the best metal units and their construction quality was no... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? @solypsa, The question comes down to what cartridge I want to buy. It is rare to be able to evaluate a cartridge's sonic performance appropriately on your own turntable. As time goes on, having dealt with quite a few cartridges you develop prefer... | |
| Does the Eminent Technology 2.5 arm work well with the Transcriptors Reference turntable? @lewm , That is wishful thinking Lew. The suspension has a certain compliance that is is essence omnidirectional. If anything vertical compliance is lower than horizontal which makes this problem worse! There is a reason that no tonearm of this ty... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? @nandric. You can say a lot of things about a cartridge without hearing it by virtue of it's design and quality of manufacture. The more experience you have the better. No, you can not say what the cartridge sounds like but the purchasing decisio... | |
| Does the Eminent Technology 2.5 arm work well with the Transcriptors Reference turntable? @dover and @ vinylzone. The ET 2 and all the other arms like it are the wishful thinking of individuals who should know better. The horizontal effective mass is almost twice that of the vertical mass. This puts the related resonance frequencies i... |