neonknight
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| 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? | |
| Upper Level Vintage DD Strenghts and Weaknesses Where you’ve been in the 70’s?Well in the 70s I was between the age of 4 and 14 | |
| Upper Level Vintage DD Strenghts and Weaknesses @chakster "It’s top quality and heavy plinth, DP-80 is a killer DD, you just need a decent lightweight mat" then" Just respect the aesthetic of Denon, it’s proper engineering from plinth to turntables, tonearms and cartridges."So how can Denon hav... | |
| Upper Level Vintage DD Strenghts and Weaknesses So far the front runner is going to be a Denon DP80 and possibly a DP75. If I did the DP80 it comes in the Denon DK300 plinth, and that one looks to be pretty well made. This is the one I am considering, although I don't know the tone arm packaged... | |
| 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 |