nsgarch
Responses from nsgarch
Flat speaker cable Buy some 16 or 32 conductor computer ribbon and terminate with spades or whatever. Cheap, flat, and 80% Nordost!! | |
Setting anti-skate Mike, yes, I think a lot of people don't realize the importance of a REALLY STRONG light source, and a little observational practice (watching the cantilever at max. and min. Anti Skate settings) until you get a "feel" for those little deflections... | |
Tranfiguration Orpheus description Mark, you can search cartridgedb.com til your eyeballs fall out but you won't find another MC cart with the (low) coil resistance (i.e low coil weight)-to-output ratio of the Orpheus. BTW, the outputs for Tranny (and ZYX) products need to be multi... | |
Best $200 speaker cables for overall performance? You didn't say what length you need, but I'd recomment a used pair of Straightwire Maestro or for maybe $100 more a used pair of Purist Musaeus. Both are quiet and neutral. Purist had a little better imaging due to less time smear, but both good o... | |
Best Solder Welborne Labs house brand is better than WBT and as good as and cheaper than Cardas (which they also sell).http://www.welbornelabs.com/solder.htm | |
Recommend alignment protractor Yes there's a good reason for the non-FERROUS screwdriver. The magnets in a MC cart. are pretty strong, and could attract the shank of a ferrous (iron or steel) screwdriver toward the cartridge with enough force to (if you're not paying attention)... | |
Setting anti-skate Warjarret, as I said earlier, years ago I used the blank vinyl method, and I ALWAYS wound up with a far higher AS setting than recommended by either the arm or cartridge manufacturer, or by my visual inspection. It consistently yields AS values th... | |
Recommend alignment protractor I'm good with the ole DB protractor. But my favorite was the van den Hul mirrored one with a very fine alignment grid (I can't remember if it's scribed or not.) They used to come only w/ the cartridges, then they weren't available at all. Now they... | |
Tranfiguration Orpheus description Speedy, I believe you are referring to the Kinergetics SW-800 towers in the pic, however it's an old pic. Those now live in Scotland, and have been replaced with a Martin Logan Depth which I like way better. | |
How do I adjust the VU meters on my Tandberg 3014? My guess is that the pointer mechanism is mechanically stuck (ie from age, dirt, etc.) and electronic adjustment is not the answer. You could try either accessing the back of the meter and/or taking it out. If it has a hole anywhere on the case, y... | |
Tranfiguration Orpheus description Speedy -- let me clarify/restate my position. I'm NOT saying that the Tranny V, W, or the Orpheus raise the bar on the other fine "traditional" cartridges I mentioned. They can all hold their own quite nicely for now, given high quality preamplifi... | |
What does "Dark Background " mean TT terminology Justubes, there are in fact two different issues here, but my understanding is that "dark," what you call "first dark" refers to something's tonal attributes, as in: The current Levinson amps have a dark sound.The other issue, noise floor, or back... | |
Setting anti-skate Warjarret, some of your assertions are correct. A coefficient of friction is indeed just a scalar number. It's used to calculate both static and moving (kinetic) frictional forces.Kinetic coefficients are lower than static coefficients for the sam... | |
Tranfiguration Orpheus description Speedy, you can take an old established design and push it to the absolute limit of possible performance, using painstaking craftsmanship and the very best materials in fabricating that design, and what you wind up with (in the world of cartridges... | |
Setting anti-skate Coeffecient of friction is a number used to calculate the amount of force necessary to overcome the resistance of a standard material to sliding over a test material. (Times area of contact, downward force, etc, etc,)The force (whether in pounds o... |