mijostyn
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| A Story about a Defective Signature Platinum @tomic601 Resin impregnated woods are common arm wands. Schroder and Reed use them. So, what you are saying is the balsa is being used as a former for the carbon fiber. Getting the resin into the balsa is just a matter of heating it up under pr... | |
| SOTA STAR Sapphire Turntable Care and Feeding @jrcotner CRC brake cleaning fluid and Electronics cleaner are virtually the same stuff! You can use either. Both are excellent at removing oils. Without a smart phone or any way to know how much you use your turntable I would certainly replace ... | |
| SOTA STAR Sapphire Turntable Care and Feeding @cbrez You are entirely correct and I apologize. The Blue has the same cantilever and stylus as the Red. | |
| A Story about a Defective Signature Platinum @tomic601 I am not sure what an end grain balsa CF arm tube is. CF is carbon fiber bundles impregnated with a resin. I have never seen a balsa wood tonearm wand end or side grain. | |
| Sound Stage and Imaging To get a truly large lifelike presentation you need a line source loudspeaker like a Magneplanar , ribbon or electrostatic speaker. All these other speakers are point source which have an inherently microscopic sound stage, even the larger ones. G... | |
| Garrard 301 motor and rumble I would like to give you the unmeasured answer but it will upset Fsonicsmith and you know the answer already along with the solution. Idler wheel drives do not have a more forceful presentation. That is lay intuition and a psychological bias. All... | |
| SOTA STAR Sapphire Turntable Care and Feeding @lewm The difference in sound quality comes from better pitch stability. I find pitch variation ruins the "I am there" effect. It reminds me I am listening to a reproduction. @jrcotner Good buy! Make sure you get a spare belt. They wear out ... | |
| A Story about a Defective Signature Platinum Your having the same problem I have with the MC Diamond. Unfortunately, it will not be quieter because you just push the volume up to get to the equivalent loudness. You are not changing the signal to noise ratio. It will seem quieter only because... | |
| The "Very Best Record Cleaning Formulation" The Wizzzard has been quiet. I hope he is all right! | |
| A Story about a Defective Signature Platinum The topic of this post is doing well and as far as I can tell there has been no change in its performance since the repair. It (signature platinum) is a very easy cartridge to live with. It's high output and low impedance give and excellent signal... | |
| A Story about a Defective Signature Platinum @lewm The Balsa wood would have to be impregnated to make it stiff enough. The arm wand is actually only 6" long. It is not prone to a high effective mass at all. Given it's short length it will take more mass to get the EM up where most MC cart... | |
| Considering selling my restored Garrard 301 @fsonicsmith Thank you for the compliment. I am dyslexic probably from a head injury when I was 5 years old. My spelling and punctuation are still pretty bad, but I do OK considering. I download high resolution files to an SSD and the best of ... | |
| Considering selling my restored Garrard 301 @famoej That should be no problem and you will increase your signal to noise ratio. ID turntables were a necessity in the past because there was no other way to adjust the speed of the platter. All motors were AC and clocked the mains frequency.... | |
| Transimpedance has too much gain? @pinwa Key word is "overpriced." A pair of gold Neutrik male XLRs cost a whopping $10.00. | |
| Transimpedance has too much gain? @lewm I said Ideally. Output levels are still in play. The Spinplay has an input impedance "effectively Zero ohms" @gochurchgo I have a Channel D Seta L Plus and am very pleased with it. The coolest thing though is recording records with Chan... |