o_holter
Responses from o_holter
| Periodic noise Thanks for help! No neon signs nearby, no special equipment on, in our house. The noise is regular with 8 m 30 s intervals. It comes and goes a bit, and sounds like a wireless interference, much like standard mobile phone interference, except it i... | |
| Periodic noise Thanks! The noise is periodic and regular, every 8 minutes 30 seconds or so. Therefore, light bulbs, chargers, dimmers, thermostats etc are unlikely suspects. Turning off our wifi router, TVs and mobile phones etc is no help, the noise comes anywa... | |
| Lyra Atlas experiences My Atlas plays very well. Recently I have bought a Spin clean washer, because I want to listen to music when I clean my records (my noisy vacuum record cleaner is in the basement, for now). Not surprisingly, the record washing results in better-so... | |
| Lyra Atlas experiences Rereading the thread: Thanks Stingreen - I very much appreciate your contributions, and will do a new check. So far, however, the azimuth seems ok. Like Mmakshak commented above, it can be hard to judge, what is the cartridge, what is the speake... | |
| Lyra Atlas experiences Platter mats - well, maybe too off topic....no reaction so far.So, back to a main issue raised earlier in the debate. The Atlas needs a solid state Riaa to sound its best. Or at least, not too many tubes (Rauliregas). He may be right. I hope to be... | |
| The right footing for a turntable I had a VPI Hw-19 that I modded and tweaked a lot over the years, including the platform and supports. A few years ago I bought a Hanss T-30. I can divide the tweaks I did with the VPI into what still works, and what is no longer needed. What work... | |
| Bad news for audiophiles? We are all subject to expectations and preconceptions. However I find a reasonable way to tell. If I think a new something is simply good (better than the old), or bad (worse) - that's when I have to wait. I have to listen more, get used to it, an... | |
| Lyra Atlas experiences Dctom - Thanks for interesting information. I also enjoy the Atlas. For me, each step up in the Lyra line over the last twenty years - Clavis, Clavis DC, Titan, Titan i, Atlas - has been worth it. The Atlas shines through even when some components... | |
| Lyra Atlas experiences Downunder - I remember, trying to tweak the Souther arm, we got the feeling, although it looked nice in theory, it was hard to achieve in practice, whatever we did, the cart scated around in the groove (and as you can imagine my rather over-contro... | |
| Lyra Atlas experiences Downunder - nice to hear. A friend of mine has a Phantom, I found it a bit better than the SME V but not a revolution. Generally, going far up in price means that the performance improvement diminishes. But perhaps the Simplicity belongs to the ex... | |
| Lyra Atlas experiences Halcro - like in "silence is golden"? If the music is bad, no cartridge will save you...Downunder - yes, the Thales arm looks very interesting. I had a parallel arm (Souther/Clearaudio) ten years ago but could never make it work. The Thales design... | |
| Pickup SRA - starting from a 500x microscope September 2016 updateI have gone down to a more moderate arm position, just a bit up from parallell. I have done some more microscope tests but have mainly given up on the method, for now. I took two older Lyra cartridges to a shop that claimed to... | |
| Lyra Atlas experiences Thank you, Astro58go. My meaning starting this thread was to be informative for others also, not just Atlas owners. Regarding solid state or tube amplification of the Atlas, opinions differ. I suggest we focus more on what can actually help, tweak... | |
| Lyra Atlas experiences Raul, my experience is different. I went from solid state to tubes, and have not looked back. It wasn't experts who told me this, it was my ears. | |
| Lyra Atlas experiences Raul - thanks, I appreciate your points in this debate, the Atlas maybe deserves better. Although my system is fairly good. Larryi - would be great to try - but if this Lyra-constructed stage is so grand, why did it go out of production? Atmaspher... |