neonknight
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| Phono Stage, Cartridge, DeGritter...which one first? Record cleaning does not have to be that expensive, especially for ultra sonic. Buy a tank off ebay, and spend a bit more for one with separate power supplies for heaters and ultrasonic devices. The tank is essentially disposable, as you spend abo... | |
| Having A Tough Time Justifying More Than One Table So my solution was to leave the Brinkmann go. I still have the Audiomods Series 6 arm here, and that can go on the SOTA as I have another arm board that fits that arm. So if I choose to audition another cartridge then I can do it on that arm, just... | |
| TONEARM DAMPING : DAMPED OR NOT ? ? USELESS ? ? WELCOMED ? ? I am not sure there is a blanket answer to this question. I suspect certain arm designs would benefit from having a dampening trough and others not so much. As anything it may be on a scale. Also, it may depend on which cartridge is installed, and... | |
| Which turntable should I choose? Some people hear excellence in moving magnet or moving iron cartridges, some do not. I am not one of those folks, its been my experience that a well executed moving coil cartridges offers greater detail, refinement, subelty, and is an improved lis... | |
| Springs under turntable Friend of mine saysDifferent is easy. Better? Not so much.Might apply to many of the observations I read above. Engineering a comprehensive spring suspension is not as simple as balancing a turntable on some pods. | |
| Springs under turntable Friend of mine | |
| Having A Tough Time Justifying More Than One Table @ mijostyn The SOTA is understated in its looks, and it does look like the more basic tables such as the Nova or Sapphire, but its an interesting table none the less. The aluminum sub chassis is well done, and when you compare it to other high end... | |
| Having A Tough Time Justifying More Than One Table @isochronism I have considered this too, and have gone back and forth. Now the Well Tempered Reference is an odd duck of a table, and sounds very nice but is of limited appeal to the current vinyl market. I watched one languish on Audiogon for mon... | |
| Having A Tough Time Justifying More Than One Table @millercarbon Can’t help yourself can you? Have to behave like an ass even when it’s not called for. Like to crap in other people’s threads eh? | |
| Having A Tough Time Justifying More Than One Table @rauliruegas What I probably should do is purchase another arm and have a board cut by SOTA for it. They will ensure the weight is correct for the suspension and therefore I can just bolt it in and do not have to worry about leveling it. That is t... | |
| What's your "diminishing returns" preamp choice? Best bang for the buck I have acquired is a Halcro DM8. Bought it from The Music Room and it is in like new shape. I am not fond of tubes any more and prefer the unassuming and even keeleed presentation of this preamp. Kind of ugly though and take... | |
| New Zirconia Pipe Cantilever .. What's up with that ? There has been some discussion by various users of the new cantilever used in the SAS line. Results are mixed But it does appear there is a resonance at 10 to 12k that cannot be resolved. Some feel boron is still preferable. https://audiokarma.org... | |
| Ikeda 9 Cartridge Squeaking Ok I got the cart mounted on the Audiomods with the heaviest cartridge plate that comes standard with it. Tracking force at 2 grams and no squeaking, tracks pretty nicely really. So far a positive outcome. | |
| Ikeda 9 Cartridge Squeaking One thing to do is bump up tracking weight on the WT to 2 grams? See what the result is there.Weird thing is it only does this on three records so far. All by Micheal Hedges released on Windham Hill. | |
| Ikeda 9 Cartridge Squeaking Ordered a heavy cartridge plate to get the Audiomods arm to 30 grams. Will see how things go on that arm and probably put the A90 on the Well Tempered. |