piedpiper
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| Walker Audio Prelude LP Cleaning Solution In my experience, Lloyd generally applies himself in a way that I've often felt a need for. That is, start with existing good ideas and refine them to the Nth degree, beyond wherever the other guys dropped the ball, often for understandable practi... | |
| New Maplenoll Ariadne owner needing advice Anyone know the thread size for cartridge screws. I'm having an amazingly hard time finding out, calling everyone I can think of who might know. I believe, at least the ones I use for my Benz based Cardas Heart, are metric. | |
| New Maplenoll Ariadne owner needing advice I believe I've got a source for brass cartridge bolts and will confirm tomorrow. The Mapleshade AC cord must be wired into the switch, or alternatively can be simply crimp fit onto the cut and spliced stubs of the existing cord. | |
| New Maplenoll Ariadne owner needing advice I'm with ya, Crem. Very interesting observations re: the damping. I'll try it and see what I think. I have had some issues with stridency/tracking that I was trying to tackle, with some luck, by increasing damping. I have revisited that recently t... | |
| New Maplenoll Ariadne owner needing advice Crem1,you're nuts! Of course, you knew that but...Seriously though, what did you notice with your variable pipe cleaner damping? | |
| cartridge Benz, Koestu, Lyra for a wonderful moment there I had a great image of an angry stylus. | |
| New Maplenoll Ariadne owner needing advice sounds like I've already done all of Lloyd's suggestions. I had gotten my 'noll new from Bob Dilger and had quite a lot of input about it both from him and Pierre and Lloyd, all of whom are friends of mine. I've used super glue rather than epoxy a... | |
| New Maplenoll Ariadne owner needing advice Crem1,what is special about this particular table, and yours, as opposed to other Ariadnes?Oilmanmojo,would you care to share the "letter from Lloyd Walker outlining potential improvements to the table"? Also, for anyone interested, Oilmanmojo has... | |
| Best sounding phono preamp under $600 Musical Surroundings Phenomena for $600, Dynavector P75 for $600 and Grado PH-1 for $500 should be on your short list. Taste will be the determining factor. | |
| New tonearm You'll have a hard time upstaging the Rega arm for 1k. Put your money elsewhere; lots of options, such as Jaybo's. | |
| Sme 3009 Series tonearms Alfred at KR Audio can help you. | |
| Phono Stage Question Depending on other considerations such as preamp gain, preamp noise, phono stage noise, amplifier gain, speaker sensitivity and listening volume preferences, you might get away with 45 to 50db of phono stage gain. A typical mm phono stage gain wou... | |
| compressor for airbearing table Sounds great! Sounds like you have the normal Ariadne (as opposed to the Signature) with the reference package, sans the Super Quiet Pump. If the arm is about 1/2 inch dia., the VTA bracket and headshell are machined out of solid aluminum and the ... | |
| Phono Stage Question I heard that room at CES and the Heed is a great value. At your 1k point there are alot of contenders. Michael Yee has just come out with a battery operated phono for Musical Surroundings at 1k just as Ron Sutherland has. Michael's compares very w... | |
| Phono Stage Question There are alot to choose from even in that price range. The EAR is very nice but twice the price of what you're considering. What is your budget? What is your taste in sound? What is the rest of your system? Are you wanting to buy new or are you w... |