mikelavigne
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| Stylus-Drag..Fact or Fiction? mikelavigne, you ever listen to JC-1’s in your system? Maybe just a slightly better value many of us can afford. i’ve met John Curl a few times, and had his CTC Blowtorch preamp design in my room for a few days once when my friend, the dear depar... | |
| Active isolation; what can it do for music reproduction? what is the effect on the music?generally; properly implemented, what a single active device will do is to bring a level of calm and naturalness to the music. it will allow moments of musical stress and energy to be more finely sorted out, to flow... | |
| Stylus-Drag..Fact or Fiction? ok; i started a separate thread on active isolation; with a few basics and some reference to it's use in my system. happy to get as deep as you want on the subject there. and hopefully allow specific turntable related things to continue here unaba... | |
| Active isolation; what can it do for music reproduction? so what am i doing in my system with active isolation?i’ve had stock Herzan active TS units in my system since 2013. i first tried one in 2002 in my old room and it was in the back of my mind since i heard what they could do then. in 2013 i found ... | |
| Stylus-Drag..Fact or Fiction? i'm happy to talk more about my system (or my experiences) on a separate thread or my system thread. or not. but not here. with all due respect. and i'm happy to continue our dialog if you want to. | |
| Stylus-Drag..Fact or Fiction? That’s also true of most of us here, isn’t it? i suppose it depends on your definition of ’here’.on an analog oriented thread like this one, i’d say most have, or prefer, tubes or a tube like presentation. otherwise in general maybe a bit differe... | |
| Stylus-Drag..Fact or Fiction? ok, since we are in a free fall anyway here we go......back in the day (in spring 2001) i had borrowed Atma-Sphere MA2 Mk (something or other, i’m sure Ralph will jump in to clarify). had them in my system for a couple of weeks, and was about to o... | |
| Stylus-Drag..Fact or Fiction? Mikelevigne, I am truly jealous. I which I had as much money as you have to spend on Hi Fi equipment. hard to know how to react to that. might be a compliment, or something else. i would only say that it’s taken me many years to assemble my syste... | |
| Stylus-Drag..Fact or Fiction? I never understood this position. especially if you take it out of context. and then twist it around.this is a forum for listeners. my whole point, not the 5-10 percent you lifted, was that we have to listen to what these turntables do without pr... | |
| Stylus-Drag..Fact or Fiction? ignore the technology and measurements.i did......or i do every day.i purchased the Saskia idler to place next to my Wave Kinetics NVS direct drive. both toward to top of the heap for their types. i think my system allows each to flourish. maybe n... | |
| Stylus-Drag..Fact or Fiction? Non-feedback motor controlIn LFT 1, the rotation control is not performed, and the constant speed rotation is left to the high moment of inertia of the 27 kg platter, creating a rotation free from unnecessary vibration caused by the control.... | |
| Stylus-Drag..Fact or Fiction? Ralph, i was not the 'Mike' asking you that question. i already knew you had a lathe and mastered Lp's. | |
| Stylus-Drag..Fact or Fiction? i have maybe 20+ recordings of Beethoven’s 5th and double that of the 9th.every one has a slightly different tempo. even by the same conductor and orchestra.none are really wrong. just different. i do have my favorites.which is a different issue t... | |
| Stylus-Drag..Fact or Fiction? mike, there is such a thing as "carrying it to far." Why don you just stick your turntable in an isolation camber so airborne vibration doesn’t get to it? I bet if you sit on one of those tables your hearing will improve:) in a thread about ’styl... | |
| Stylus-Drag..Fact or Fiction? back years ago when i switched from my Basis belt driven tt, and belt driven Rockport Sirius II SE, to the direct drive Rockport Sirius III turntable; the most obvious ’stylus drag’ thing i heard was lack of clarity and coherence on large musical ... |