mke246
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| Working with 78’s It depends what era of discs with which you're dealing. Most 40s and 50s 78s were cut with a 2.5 mil groove, but earlier discs are all over the place. Archiving 78s is an extremely complex topic, and there are reams of information out there. ... | |
| Turntables: 2 Tonearms. What do you Have or Know About? My setup for 78 RPM audio restoration: Technics SP-10R in Albert Porter panzerholz plinth Primary arm: Fidelity Research FR-66S direct-wired with Shure V15 Vx and dozens of custom Expert Stylus stylii with various truncated elliptical and conic... | |
| Connect 78 rpm turntable to Vinnie Rossi L2i SE amp? With 78s, the biggest factor is stylus size. You need a 2.5 or 3 mil stylus. There are a lot of options, but the easiest off-the-shelf solution these days is this: https://www.audio-technica.com/en-us/at-vm95sp Dual turntables are OK, but I w... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm I put my 9" HA arm up for sale a few easy-to-find places if anyone is interested. I’m still somewhat agnostic as to the discussion surrounding the fine details. Kind of tempting to try to put the arm to the test, but I’m mostly a 78 collector. Alt... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm @neonknight Thanks for mentioning the Dynavector DV505. That seems like it could be the perfect solution for my situation in that it’s a flush-mount and doesn’t require a massive hole to be drilled in my plinth. I’ve ordered one. It’s a bit of a f... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm I tend to side with mijostyn and the 'audio science' side of the debate. In general, I'm curious as to how much of the 'science' side of the debate is truly measurable. Computerized measuring apps have come a long way recently, as has high-resolut... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm I'm still debating whether my Viv arm will be suitable for 78 (mono) archival work...leaning toward "yes" being that any stereo inner groove phase errors can be corrected in my 2-channel software when summing the channels. Small potatoes in the sc... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm I’ve been waiting for this thread for a while. I have a 10" Viv Labs arm that I haven’t used much as my secondary arm. The main reason for purchase was that it’s easy and relatively affordable to implement on my plinth without buying an entirely ... | |
| How many turntables have you owned? Five; the life of a casual 78 collector-turned semi-professional transfer engineer in about eight years: 1) Audio Technica LP-120. Removed the built-in preamp to improve the signal chain. Used for a few years as a starter table 2) Dual 1229. ... | |
| FR64 to FR66 conversion Analogmagik I had my FR-66s modded by Richard Mak with great results. My use is pretty unorthodox, though. I use the FR arm because I need to track heavy (5 grams) with 78s and the FR arm is probably one of the best-suited if not the best for such a task. Ric... | |
| Am I a hopeless audio snob? Personally I find a Technics SP-10 or -15 series in an aftermarket plinth much more visually appealing than most of the fancy gizmo-looking belt-driven tables out there, but to each their own. Sometimes less is more. I do tend to agree, though, th... | |
| Practicality of reversing frequency response curve of phono cartridge / stylus Thanks, good food for thought. A lot of what CEDAR does is pretty old, but there are still some things that have yet to be matched by other products, e.g. phase correction of mono groove walls, fixing lathe errors for 100 year old recordings, some... | |
| Tonearms for reference 78 RPM system Technics SP-10R I ended up going with a Fidelity Research FR-66S. Will be a few months before I'm able to assemble everything, but I think I'm in good shape for tracking at 3-5 grams with low compliance cantilevers. I may have the arm serviced and rewired down th... | |
| Tonearms for reference 78 RPM system Technics SP-10R Yes, the RME ADI-2 Pro FS-R AD/DA.I think the Fidelity-Research FR-64s and Technics EPA-100 mk2 are good recommendations and would work well, but I'm somewhat fixated on the SME 3012-R. There's even a pro version with silver wire that can be had. ... | |
| Tonearms for reference 78 RPM system Technics SP-10R Thanks! Some more things to think about. I've heard about that Miyajima product. I'm sure it's good at what it's intended to do and has great build quality, but the main practical problem as an archivist is that it only works well if the groove wi... |