pryso
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| Best protractor for aligning to cantilever Nrenter, I think the Dennesen addresses the concerns in your Issue #2. It adjusts for the triangulation between the table spindle, the arm pivot point, and the overhang. It includes an indentation for the stylus tip which falls on the proper overh... | |
| Best protractor for aligning to cantilever Hi Hyper:First of all, I would recommend using the cantilever rather than the cartridge body with ANY alignment tool. If the cantilever cannot be viewed or is not referenced on a tool, I would discard that tool. This assumes the stylus is correctl... | |
| Audioquest PT Arm Damping Fluid Mark, this may be too obvious but have you contacted AQ?If they could not help, you might try Sumiko. Their Premier arms (long discontinued) came from the same OEM. I have a FT-3 and while the weight/type of damping fluid is not specified, instruc... | |
| Kuzma Confusion Two more thoughts - when you replaced the belt, did you clean the motor pulley and the inner platter contact areas? Even a small bit of contamination might cause the start up slippage because of inertia.If all else fails, contact Elite Audio Video... | |
| Kuzma Confusion So far as I know, the Stabi as sold in the US came with the external PS. If you have that it sounds like it should be checked out.My Stabi is over eight years old and continues to work just fine. | |
| Speaker Placement A different approach -Consider the Vandersteen VSM wall mount speakers (now two versions). While they were designed for surround sound applications, I've heard of their use as main speakers when space is an issue. This will allow better separation... | |
| Out of phase breaking in, Anywone ever hear of it? Either Stereophile or TAS recommended this procedure at least 20 years ago. As I recall, they also suggested covering everything with a couple of blankets to help reduce the level so as not to drive everyone in the house crazy! | |
| Lonely piece of marble: where should it go? Marble can ring like a bell. It is wrong to equate mass (by itself) with damping. Many massive materials will transmit vibrations quite readily. | |
| Music Reference RM9 - user comments please Back in the '80s I evaluated and bought a RM-9 to replace my restored Marantz 8B. It drove my Vandersteen 2 (whatever was latest version at the time). Beautiful sounding and looking, I might still own it except I bought larger speakers for which 1... | |
| Best location setup of turntable Unless you want to play with various suspension systems, a wall mount as Bdgregory suggests may be the easiest answer. Hopefully, owners of Thorens tables will add their experiences.The second issue after what to place it on is where in the room t... | |
| speaker to big? Two considerations:Large speakers are usually designed that way to accommodate larger woofers. This may overdrive a smaller room. Also, remember that nearly all speaker cabinets vibrate to some degree, thus they add to the soundfield. The larger t... | |
| Is that record dead yet? Grimace, do you have a record cleaner? No help for wear, but a lot of your "pops" might be dirt and grundge in the groove which could be washed out. I believe every vinyl enthusiast should have a record cleaning machine. Even an inexpensive manual... | |
| Are modern speakers better than old speakers? If you're not familiar with the Princess, she is the "little" sister to the Sovereign, the model that received all the notoriety and reviews. I always believed the Princess was scaled more for an average living room - still at 6' tall and 180 poun... | |
| Are modern speakers better than old speakers? Sirspeedy, no need to apologize for your enthusiasm for your Avalons. I feel the same way about my Duntech Princess. Good design and build does hold up over time. I think I would need to spend around $20K in today's market for a replacement and ev... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Raul, interesting post, with a lot of food for thought - sort of a large audio deli counter.I was struck by a point many years ago that many top mastering engineers reportedly used MM rather than MC cartridges in their work - Sax, Grundman, Ricker... |