neonknight
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| What Does It Take To Surpass A SME V? @rauliruegas Well I have images of a cantilever with epoxy only on the tip and pictured of a clean cantilever devoid of epoxy. Cantilever is not fractured. The cantilever is confirmed as synthetic diamond. There is plenty of data to confirm t... | |
| What Does It Take To Surpass A SME V? I haven’t really made any choices. I had an unexpected opportunity come my way at the end of December. A person bought a new Ortofon Verismo and at the twenty hour mark decided to dust the table and ended up removing the diamond from the cantileve... | |
| What Does It Take To Surpass A SME V? I own a SME V on a SOTA Cosmos. Images sent to Alfred point it to being a first generation arm. The question becomes do I sell it and replace it, or keep it as is. I dont think it makes much sense to spend money on a rebuild of it. But that is jus... | |
| High Performance Low Mass Tone Arm Suggestions Needed Before I do anything I decided to see if my Dynavector arm could accommodate the second MC2000 I have that has been retipped. The OEM will play on the arm with a Supex SL2 headshell which is 7.2 grams. I just ordered a Denon PCL5 headshell which w... | |
| High Performance Low Mass Tone Arm Suggestions Needed JGH liked the cartridge on the Well Tempered arm, which searches showed it as 10 grams. The SME V he used it on and did not like it was 9.5 grams, so it would appear that more than mass was in play and that other characteristics formed his decisio... | |
| High Performance Low Mass Tone Arm Suggestions Needed An EPA100 would work, the trick is finding one from a trusted source with good bearings. Certainly a good option though. | |
| Looking For The Best Pre-Amp Match For A Pair of Classe Omega Amplifiers The Omegas have started to settle in, been running now since Tuesday afternoon 24/7 and have finally gotten moderately warm and the sound has opened up. Beautiful midrange, actually excellent tonal balance across the board, spacious soundstage in ... | |
| Looking For The Best Pre-Amp Match For A Pair of Classe Omega Amplifiers So i brought the Classe Omega home this afternoon and have them installed. Just running on my back up pre-amp at the moment, wanting to get the amps warmed up and settled in. Been powered up since 2 PM, so about 8 hours, and they have just gotten ... | |
| Looking For The Best Pre-Amp Match For A Pair of Classe Omega Amplifiers To be honest a lot of these upper tier pre-amps have attributes I really don't care for. Why do they have to use programmable inputs? I don't care what set of jacks are assigned to what input button and the corresponding one on the remote. I just ... | |
| Looking For The Best Pre-Amp Match For A Pair of Classe Omega Amplifiers There are a few interesting Ayre pre amps floating out there | |
| Looking For The Best Pre-Amp Match For A Pair of Classe Omega Amplifiers Never been a fan of McIntosh myself either although I have had one friend system with MC60 and a Mac pre with Tannoy Westminster speakers sound nice. But still not my choice. So Audionet can be on the short list, but it seems very few are on the ... | |
| Looking For The Best Pre-Amp Match For A Pair of Classe Omega Amplifiers Don’t have time to post pics for a bit, am at work. Speakers are JBL 4365 with a pair of Velodyne HGS12 servo subs. Sources are a SOTA Cosmos Eclipse with SME V and Transfiguration Proteus and Scheu Analog das Laufwerk No2 with Dynavector DV505 ar... | |
| Early SOTA vs New Something: Conundrum I own a SOTA Cosmos Eclipse and have owned a gen III Star Sapphire so am familiar with the earlier tables. My opinion is that a refurbished SOTA is going to be a far better table than the Technics. Especially if you go with the magnetic bearing,... | |
| One turntable with two arms, or two turntables with one each - which would you prefer? I have two tables, one is a SOTA Cosmos Eclipse with a SME V, so a 1 arm 1 table combo. With a suspended deck its really not possible to run two arms on it. The second table is a Scheu Analog Das Laufwerk No2 which is an 85 pound non-suspended de... | |
| Think Its Possible To Order Tubes From the Ukraine? So I got the tubes in the mail today. Looks like things still work and it took 23 days. |