oilmanmojo
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| New Maplenoll Ariadne owner needing advice I have added two recent pics on my system pics showing the trial oil dampening system. The oil trough is the stock trough that I mounted directly under the air bearing spindle. I attached a pin to the arm clamp and it protrudes down into the oil t... | |
| Brag About Your Vinyl Collection Neat thread. SOme of my favorite obscure albums includeMonk and Trane double record albumBlind Faith MOFILost Gonzo bandPousette Dart band (county line)Cashman and West (a song or two)Not all classics but some of my favorite obscure albums | |
| New Maplenoll Ariadne owner needing advice Crem1; the table sounds great. i recently purchased the universe cartridge and think I am close to optimizing the vta and vtf. The cartridge had about 100 hours on it so its probably not fully broken in but the cartridge, arm, table combination is... | |
| Anyone else ever experiment with wet playback? what are the advantages vs disadvantages. I would think that liquid in the grooves would be similar to dampening? i have played records that i did not get dry(i used to spray a wash before cleaning with my discwasher brush. I now spray my brush li... | |
| New Maplenoll Ariadne owner needing advice This sounds similar to the tritium table arm. It is an air bearing arm that is very short to resemble the actual cutting head. Love to see your concept. I still want to build the separate motor plinth similar to your table but i do not have the to... | |
| New Maplenoll Ariadne owner needing advice I have finished the oil dampening system modifications for the new arm designed. In the spirit of using the existing equipment, i mounted the swing out dampening trough under the airbearing spindle. I then mounted a tapered pin on the armwand clam... | |
| ZYX universe cartridge---initial impressions Sorry i did not include in note. The universe model is the .24 mv output and silver wire coils | |
| Considering going Vinyl--Please talk me out of it My response is biased since i never really got into CDs. THe few that I have owned are typically trashed in less than one year where as I have albums I have owned since 1972 and play some vinyl that is almost 70 years old. I know you can keep CD's... | |
| New Maplenoll Ariadne owner needing advice Crem1Thanks for the kudos and speedy recovery. You will be in our prayers. I will have some pics of the oil dampening system in this new configuration soon. Still experimenting with different viscosity of oil and tapered pins to optimize the dampe... | |
| best cartridge for 60,70's classic rock, folk .... I would recommend any cartridge from the zyx line. I have not auditioned the atmos but have owned the airy3s and feel it is a tremendous cartridge. Great tracker, wonderful neutrality and with the right system (table/arm) tremendous bass response.... | |
| zyx universe cartr.- ideal weight -ideal vta , great thread, alway interesting to hear how people tweak the machine to bring it to higher levels. This will help me as I have recently upgraded to a universe cartridge (can't wait to get it!!). I have been using a zyx airy3s for a couple of years... | |
| ZYX Universe, Dynavector XV-1s, vdH Colibri, ?? Its good to see humility on this website. All too often, people get pretty aggressive with their beliefs and ideas. There is a lot of collective knowledge with the different contributors that each of us at one time or another has benefited from | |
| What are the treasures in your vinyl library? great thread, Hard to stop at 5 but this week, here are my top 5DSOTM-------pink floyd. THe album is over 30 years old and gets played almost every week and is still perfect (maybe two pops/clicks from my earlier days) I got to get a backup copy!B... | |
| How isolated is your hi-fi? My favorite room was a basement in my memphis home that was large enough for a hometheater setup on one end (complete with 7.1 sound) and a pool table on the other end. It became the best room in the house and could easily handle music and/or movi... | |
| New Maplenoll Ariadne owner needing advice I finished the wiring on the arm using the lighter weight, silver wire. At the point, I am going to take a break from tweaking and just listen a while. The silver wire has resulted in a brighter high frequency and more resolution of the highs. Cym... |