neonknight
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| 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. | |
| Ikeda 9 Cartridge Squeaking Can we get a concensous of which version this is?The one in this image is the cartridge I have. Are we talking an original series 9 or the Kawami? https://conchan1.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/mi-last.jpeg | |
| Ikeda 9 Cartridge Squeaking Cartridge identification on these is always difficult. Mine is the gold colored body with the kanji character on the right hand side and Ikeda 9 printed across the bottom. I have always had wondered if this is just the standard 9 or if this is the... | |
| New TT for ~$1500 There are very good reports regarding the SOTA Escape. Worth looking into. Has the Phoenix Engineering speed controller integrated which is an excellent way to obtain speed control with a belt drive table. | |
| Soundsmith - Thank you to everyone. Peter many of us appreciate what you do for the audio community. Ignore the detractors and know that you and your employees are valued by us. | |
| Cartridge advice A couple of very nice Audio Technica cartridges come to mind. The AT33SA can fall in that budget. So can the OC9 family, there are some new members as well as the OC 9 III. If you can stretch a bit the ART-9 is reported to an excellent all around ... | |
| Brightness More information is needed. What is the cartridge?What is amplification?What is the room like and how is equipment set up?What is used for cabling?What kind of music is being played?The WT is a table with a plethora of adjustments, especially cons... |