neonknight
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| Upper Level Vintage DD Strenghts and Weaknesses @lewm No worries, I know exactly what you mean since I have set the arm up. It's interesting how the primary arm counterweight loads the horizontal bearing. I guess that degree of travel is a function of the horizontal bearings architecture. It ma... | |
| Upper Level Vintage DD Strenghts and Weaknesses @lewm This is from the manual on the DV505. Horizontal balancingMain arm is designed to maintain itself always level. But horizontal balancing is still necessary to distribute bearing load evenly and thereby realize best trackability. To achieve t... | |
| Upper Level Vintage DD Strenghts and Weaknesses In the meantime I have installed the Ikeda 9 Kawami in the Dynavector with a 15 gram headshell. The Dynavector arm is an unusual design, and what I found interesting is that there is a counterweight at the end of the main arm that has to be set in... | |
| Scheu Audio Das Laufwerke No 2 Arrives Safely So I have had the table up and running for a few days on a trial set up. For the moment I have an Ortofon MC200 installed as its my cheapest cartridge, and this was put on just to make sure everything works properly. Cartridge alignment is easy ... | |
| Scheu Audio Das Laufwerke No 2 Arrives Safely @mijostyn My SOTA is a vacuum model. It is the current generation Cosmos Eclipse. I got it at the beginning of 2020. | |
| Scheu Audio Das Laufwerke No 2 Arrives Safely The base is the black acrylic and the platter is clear acrylic. Essentially it is this tablehttps://images.search.yahoo.com/images/view;_ylt=AwrTLfpNYuxgnYUAySeJzbkF;_ylu=c2VjA3NyBHNsawNpbWcEb... | |
| Upper Level Vintage DD Strenghts and Weaknesses Search engines are weird, and sometimes we miss information or posts with them. I happened to find this post when using my phone and when using my computer it never comes up in a search. But there is a bit of information that is interesting. I hav... | |
| Upper Level Vintage DD Strenghts and Weaknesses So my table shipped on Thursday. If it clears customs in a timely manner I hope to have it next week. | |
| Upper Level Vintage DD Strenghts and Weaknesses I worked for an audio shop during my college years. Late 1980s, in Washington State. We carried the Azden YM series of cartridges. So they were available in the US too. | |
| Upper Level Vintage DD Strenghts and Weaknesses @lewm I currently use a Transfiguration Audio Proteus and ZYX 4D. Also have an Ikeda Kawami which counts as a classic MC but sounds nothing like one. The Proteus and 4D meet my needs for modern MC and I am content with them. Anything I do now is j... | |
| Upper Level Vintage DD Strenghts and Weaknesses Vintage cartridges really isn't my thing, nor is owning a couple dozen of them. I only have one system and a limit of three turntables. So I need 4 or 5 cartridges at the most. The MC200 is meant to be a casual listening cartridge as I have a lot ... | |
| Upper Level Vintage DD Strenghts and Weaknesses @chakster This is the Ortofon MC200U, which is the 1/2 inch version. They did make one with an integrated head shell. This integrated design also was sold under the Concorde name, and they had a T4P version called the CMC I believe. The one I have... | |
| Upper Level Vintage DD Strenghts and Weaknesses Actually I have had a history with these kinds of tables in the past. In the late 90s I ended up being an early adopter of the Teres Audio turntable, and I had a pretty nice one with an Eminent Technology II air bearing tone arm. In a moment of te... | |
| Upper Level Vintage DD Strenghts and Weaknesses So i guess I do owe folks an update. I decided to pass on the Sony TTS8000 due to reported bearing issues. I was pretty well set on getting a Denon DP80 in a DK300 plinth from Unisound, however I could not get them to package the arm I wanted with... | |
| Upper Level Vintage DD Strenghts and Weaknesses UM you guys do realize this was a discussion about upper end DD drive units? |