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| SOTA Cosmos or Garrard 301 ? "07-22-10: GmuffleyJust a prediciton, but if 20 people respond, 5 will say the SOTA, 5 will say the 301 and the other 10 will say whatever turntable they own."Well, so much for predictions. I make turntables, and I would pick the Garrard 301. It i... | |
| Tonearms of exotic materials- esp. Carbon? My Schroeder is the Model 2, and it has a wand of carbon fiber.In my stable are others of various materials...Technics EPA-500...titanium nitrideStax UA7...carbon fiberInfinity Black Widow...carbon fiberMagnepan Unitrac 1...Carbon fiberADC LMF2...... | |
| Grado TLZ ??? Oops...maybeCould it be that the XTC is the stylus assembly for the XTZ, or there is some other mistake? I have a Signature marked XTC, but not one marked XTZ. I thought I had all of them. | |
| Grado TLZ ??? Frogman and others...The Grado site did not mention the last one ever made. It was the XTC, and sold for a short time and only in limited numbers.Also, I believe the site neglected to mention one of the white bodied ones. I'll need to check my col... | |
| Replace my Technics SH-10B3 Obsidian SP10 base? You can buy slate, and have a local water jet place cut it for you. That will be a big improvement. Another idea is to have a Panzerholtz plinth made. Some people believe this is a better solution.The thing about plinths is that there is no end to... | |
| Why mono? I heard the Miyajima Premium BE mono cartridge at Robin Wyatt's house, the importer, a few months ago. It is special to the point that it actually challenges stereo recordings. Jazdoc is right; it is that good. | |
| Best bargain you've ever missed out A mint Dynavector 505 tonearm in the box with a "buy it now" of $29.95 on eBay. The seller originally had it listed as Erector Set parts with a starting price of .99. I convinced him to put it up as a "Buy it Now", but he didn't do it until the we... | |
| Wow/Flutter and Speed Stability Doug,It has been changed since the first version, and while it can't catch sudden issues like stylus effect, it can show things like drift, stylus influence on the record, etc., in a more general sort of way that is way more accurate than the typi... | |
| Wow/Flutter and Speed Stability A good tool that I have acquired recently is the Sutherland Timeline. Look on YouTube, and you'll see how it works. There is a demo there. Anyway, it is a great item, especially if you set up turntables frequently.Disclaimer:I don't sell it, but I... | |
| Schroeder Reference Arm Well,I suppose it all comes down to different flavors for different guys because there has never been a best of anything. Still, there are flavors that the discerning listener can appreciate and differentiate. For interested parties, note that OMA... | |
| Clearaudio Double Smart Matrix or Loricraft PRC4 I am convinced that the Keith Monks, new or used, is the best you can get for reasons that Syntax explained previously. I don't know what a new one costs, but expect to pay around $2500 for a used one. If you aren't DIY inclined, it is probably wo... | |
| Lys Pure Azure vs Sutherland Timeline Of course, I should have said a strobe disc isn't really the closest measure. The Timeline is a strobe, too...you knew that. Anyway, the Timeline projects a dot to a further distance than the placement of strobe disc markings, so accuracy is enhan... | |
| Lys Pure Azure vs Sutherland Timeline I have a Timeline, and it is a very useful tool. I like it better than a typical strobe because setting up a turntable that has a very accurate controller is much faster with it. My turntable will adjust to 1/100th RPM, so a strobe isn't really th... | |
| Schroeder Reference Arm Franks builds very serious tonearms. If you contact him for one, it will take awhile to get it, but it's well worth the wait.By the way, he designed a production tonearm sold by Artemis Labs that is available quickly. It sounds great, too. | |
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