piedpiper
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| New Maplenoll Ariadne owner needing advice Let us know if and when you find a good source for the granite look corian as I also have plans for ancillary plinths, for the arm and motor.Also, beware of too much arm dampening both from the stand point of over damping per se and as regards unn... | |
| The necessity of a plinth As much as we wish they were, cones do not act as diodes. | |
| 10 Levels of Turntable Mastery 'swonderful, Doug! | |
| TT weight for a Rega P-5 Despite Roy Gandy's always iconoclastic advice to avoid anything additional to his bare bones approach, including better cables, or even cleaning your records, I do recommend trying different mats and a weight or clamp, and not just to flatten war... | |
| Steam Cleaning - RCM or not? I can't help but think that the RCM is an advantage, just I can't help but think the those Pledge cloths are charged with stuff that is best kept off your records. It's possible that the degradation that you hear after vacuuming is due to the stat... | |
| New Maplenoll Ariadne owner needing advice yes. It helps to have a very heavy bottom on the mount. I started using 3 large brass cones and then when I went with the mail tube casing I inserted a large chunk of steel to be eventually replaced with lead shot. The string is more rigid than th... | |
| New Maplenoll Ariadne owner needing advice It's pretty simple. You just need to remove the bolts that hold the lead motor mount plate and create some sort of mounting for it that can be positioned at the correct height to accommodate the belt going over the plinth and under the platter, as... | |
| New Maplenoll Ariadne owner needing advice congrats and good luck! | |
| Benz Micro M2 loading Rcruz,based on your experience it sounds like you might prefer a higher value like 4-10k | |
| No deep bass or highs: VTF or VTA issue? Is it possible that the "air" you are hearing from the CDP is an artifact of that rig, and not necessarily a "better" thing? | |
| No deep bass or highs: VTF or VTA issue? It's a good call to find good CD/LP reference recordings. I wouldn't trust any but those made by the same company and preferably from a company that can be relied upon for good sound such as Audioquest. A good choice might be Mighty Sam McLain GIv... | |
| KAB 1200 vs. everything else. Sorry. sloppy me. The arm would be the weaker link IMHO. ...and IMHO the Heed phono stage ain't that bad (but I'm a dealer for them), obviously not up to your Lamm but neither is the table/arm. I thought I made it clear that for that money you did... | |
| KAB 1200 vs. everything else. Again, theory vs. reality. In your case, your choice was, as I already implied, perhaps a good one, but you could have spent the $800 on a better arm and used the cart you had with possibly better results. | |
| KAB 1200 vs. everything else. Of course the Dyna will better the AT. The question is whether the $ spent on the Dyna would have been "better" spent on a better table. The answer to that "theoretical" question is yes. In "reality" you had your own reasons for hanging onto the T... | |
| KAB 1200 vs. everything else. I think Pauly's point, and mine, is that the KAB Technics, although obviously a great value, is limited, arguably not worthy of a $2k cartridge, and possibly not revelatory in comparison to a good CD player, although you'll get arguments, of cours... |