nsgarch
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| Anti skate and tonearm damping query Stan, the Supex cartridge(s) you specifically refer to, have elliptical styli. In fact, Supex makes cartridges with either spherical or elliptical styli - no line contact styli! AND they all have medium compliance suspensions, and some even have h... | |
| Turntable wall shelf Hi,I am very well, thank you ;-)For both cost effectiveness and the most rigidity, Target has always been my choice. They come in two sizes. I prefer the larger shelf size regardless (for rigidity and versatility.) If you can anchor to masonry, so... | |
| Anti skate and tonearm damping query Stan, the tonearm manufacturers are indeed now catching up with the essential differences between MC and MM cartrige requirements. Or to be more specific, the difference in the tonearm settings required by cartridges with line contact styli and pr... | |
| Need Help on my ML 26 >>I am curious about the straightwire cable. They say that Straightwire and ML are a match made in Heaven. I noticed you have a set too. What do you think of the cables?<<Straightwire Maestro and MIT 330 were my cables of choice (back ... | |
| Anti skate and tonearm damping query Al, thanks for the reinforcement. You obviously have more insight/experience than you want to claim ;-)Tonarm, I really have nothing further to say to you ;-(Neil | |
| Anti skate and tonearm damping query Dertonarm, my explanations are based on the Laws of Mechanics introduced by Sir Isaac Newton July 5, 1687, and which remain true and in use to this day. You can point to all the little nuances which you assert would have an effect on the basic des... | |
| Nagra BPS distorting Cartridge loading (whether it's just right for your cartridge or a litle off) will affect gain very little. However, your Benz has an output of .8mV which is getting up into MM territory. And with the fancy step up transformers in the Nagra, it ma... | |
| Anti skate and tonearm damping query Stanwal, first of all the Grace 707 is a vintage tonearm calibrated for MM cartridges, not MC which require far less AS. The rule of thumb in the MM days was that the AS should equal the VTF, and even at that, how much sideways AS force (in grams)... | |
| Need Help on my ML 26 W_barton, I'm glad to hear you are using the XLR main outputs since that allows maximum performance from your preamp. What kind of amp are you driving? | |
| Anti skate and tonearm damping query God bless America. Dertonarm has a right to express whatever ideas he feels are true ;-) and on any subject. Besides, they say laughter is the best medicine. So I say 'Good luck' to him! | |
| Transfiguration:sonic balance/Axia shares Phoenix Hi Jonathan.The first Transfigurations had the single ring-magnet configuration, which to me appears generally unchanged with the present Orpheus and Temper designs. I used a Transfiguration in the early 1990s, and it was of this type.My understan... | |
| Need Help on my ML 26 OK, you don't have a schematic, but do you have an Owner's Manual?I don't think the problem is in the volume potentiometer. It's sealed and of the highest quality. You might try gently rotating the two balance pots back and forth since you don't u... | |
| Anti skate and tonearm damping query Skating force is a 'twisting torque'. It occurs only in tonearms that have an angular offset built into them to help minimize tracking error - making it zero at two points across the record instead of one point (which would result if there were no... | |
| Anti skate and tonearm damping query This is a great resource for figuring out stuff like this:http://www.cartridgedb.com but this time I'll save you the trouble.Your cartridge has a pretty low compliance, even for a moving coil (10, compared to say Transfigurations at 15, or vdH at ... | |
| Good speaker match for Mcintosh MC275 IV I purchased my MC275-IV to drive my 18 y.o. MartinLogan CLSIIz's. Tubes are the ticket for electrostats, and among tube amps, the McIntosh MC275 has a unique power output circuit which makes it even better suited to driving electrostats. Frank McI... |