mikelavigne
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| Where is the next generation of direct drive? Any news about Kodo The Beat ?not exactly sure what you are asking. i owned the Beat for 9 months and loved it. below the price of the NVS it would be my first choice. direct drive, 2 arm boards, beautifully built, low noise, speed correct and spe... | |
| Where is the next generation of direct drive? Sonofjim,the new turntable concept on the Wave Kinetics site will be somewhat lower in price, as a understand it at this point. it will have a separate motor/platter and arm tower as it's currently concieved. it will have a small form factor and f... | |
| Where is the next generation of direct drive? i've been a big direct drive and idler fan for quite a few years. i've owned 3 upgraded direct drive (and idler) vintage tt's; the Dobbins Technics SP-10 Mk2 and Mk3, and the Dobbins Garrard 301. i've had the GPA Monaco (6 year old design) in my r... | |
| Swiss amps the best company is Soulution, reasonnable expensive price........and as musical as dartzeel and FM, more power tahn Dartzeel.....have you heard the darTZeel NHB-458 monoblocks?i own the dart stereo amp, and had the 458's in my room for a month la... | |
| Isolation transformer - does it offer protection i have no technical experience or reference.OTOH i do use an Equi=tech 10WQ Wall Panel System which uses a 10kw balanced isolation transformer for my audio circuits in a dedicated room. i have all the lights, HVAC and non audio electical on a sepa... | |
| What defines a good tonearm I just wanted to get a copy.right. :^) | |
| What defines a good tonearm Dear Mike, Did you actually hear a difference between a Reed 2A and a Reed 2P? I thought the only difference between those two was the fine-ness of the VTA adjustment up and down.Lew, my first Reed was not designated 'A' and in fact was somewhat '... | |
| What defines a good tonearm Ralph wrote;Mike and Dan, I assume that both of you have LPs that you recorded yourself and released commercially. What is the title of the LP? I'd like to get a copy.i have your Lp (or at least one of your Lps), and respect your dramatically grea... | |
| What defines a good tonearm i had the Triplaner VII in my system on 3 different tt's over three years compared directly with the Reed 2A, Schroeder Ref SQ, Reed 2P, and then the Talea 1 and Talea 2. each tt had 2 arm boards and although i used multiple different cartridges m... | |
| What defines a good tonearm to be clear, i've never claimed any specific tonearm as best, only the 'best i've heard'. what i wrote;the very best arms i have heard are the Durand Talea 1 and Talea 2 in my system, in other systems, and at shows. i would also add the Continuum ... | |
| What defines a good tonearm So Mikelavigne, what do you think is the current state of the art in unipivot arms and why?ok. but first, a caution that i'm an observer of performance and maybe even process, but really no technical guy at all. like anyone that is around all this... | |
| What defines a good tonearm hi Lew,my perspective is that the most significant percieved and discussed weakness of a unipivot is actually it's biggest advantage, which is the freedom to wiggle. it is the micro and nano wiggling following the groove unimpeded that gives it th... | |
| What defines a good tonearm i'm convinced that of pivoted arms, only a unipivot has the potential to work ideally. that's because anything not a unipivot will always be fighting itself to travel the groove correctly.as always, reaching a theoretical potential is challenging,... | |
| what power cord do you use on the playback designs i use the Absolute Fidelity power cords on my Playback Designs MPS-5 from Gary Ko of Genesis Loudspeakers. I also us an Equi=tech 10Kva isolation transformer (the 10WQ Wall Panel System). i think power cords must be considered in the context of a ... | |
| Reed tonearm w/ Raven One table-how's the match ? Rockitman,one of my Reed 10.5" 2P's had Red Cedar, the other had Cocobolo.the 1st generation Talea has Jatoba wood in the arm wand, the 2nd generation Talea has Brazilian Rosewood. i have one of each. there is no choice of woods with the Talea.i'm... |