rauliruegas
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| TONEARM DAMPING : DAMPED OR NOT ? ? USELESS ? ? WELCOMED ? ? Dear @yeti42 : Unipivot tonearm designs are really sensitive and way unstable.I think that with your Aro you can get way better quality sound using the " tape " around its arm wand. This is a must test you need to do it.This other tape can helps ... | |
| TONEARM DAMPING : DAMPED OR NOT ? ? USELESS ? ? WELCOMED ? ? Dear @jjss49 : " maybe my mind is imagining that... but i do believe the sq difference is there...""Certainly is not your imagination, it's a fact. Adequated tonearm damping always improves quality level performance in any cartridge signal we a... | |
| TONEARM DAMPING : DAMPED OR NOT ? ? USELESS ? ? WELCOMED ? ? Dear @bdp24 : No, it does not exist yet any other tonearm in the market as the Max great idea. Good that you own it from some years now because you know for sure what I'm talking with the critical tonearm damping subject.R. | |
| TONEARM DAMPING : DAMPED OR NOT ? ? USELESS ? ? WELCOMED ? ? Dear @ebm : " If you damp use as little as possible...""good point but let me ask: how do you determine that " as little as possible " ? it can depends of which kind of damp we want to use.When can we know that it's enough damping or that we n... | |
| TONEARM DAMPING : DAMPED OR NOT ? ? USELESS ? ? WELCOMED ? ? Dear @antinn : really good articles the ones you linked even if the Audio one premise is: " perfect cartridge ".@lewm your FR ansd Acutex resonates at 4hz, spot on for warps and other bass anomalies but you lovwe it.I understand the FR " fascina... | |
| TONEARM DAMPING : DAMPED OR NOT ? ? USELESS ? ? WELCOMED ? ? Dear @millercarbon and friends : " Of course they need to be damped. The question is in what way? And how much? "Totally in agreement. Yes, one way or other tonearms must be damped. As a fact any analog rig item and the whole room/system need... | |
| TONEARM DAMPING : DAMPED OR NOT ? ? USELESS ? ? WELCOMED ? ? Dear @noromance : the Jelco tonearms I know came/comes with oil damping system at the " top cup " of the pivot. Models SA and this new one too:https://audiosensibility.com/Store/us_store.htm#!/Jelco-TS-550S-MKII-9-Tonearm-***-New-***/p/1893469...R. | |
| TONEARM DAMPING : DAMPED OR NOT ? ? USELESS ? ? WELCOMED ? ? Dear @noromance : Well, your Jelco tonearms are silicon damped by design and if you test that wrap around the arm wand your listening experiences will be even better. No one can lost nothing with the arm wand wrap tape because if we don’t like the... | |
| TONEARM DAMPING : DAMPED OR NOT ? ? USELESS ? ? WELCOMED ? ? Dear @millercarbon : I don't know if you remember that many years ago Sumiko marketed the Analog Survival Kit that is a great analog accesory. It uses as a wrap around the tonearm wand in helicoidal way.Well, any one of us can use something simil... | |
| Direct Drive vs. Idler Drive vs. Belt drive Dear @mikelavigne : from several of your post before in this thread it's clear your " preference " for the Saskia/CSPort over the NVS and this is ( again. ) not under questioning in any way.Exist something that in some ways " worry " me and I wil... | |
| Direct Drive vs. Idler Drive vs. Belt drive Dear @mikelavigne : With servo or optical or whatever speed controller we use it happens exactly the same:" but at the micro level, if it rotates or becomes faster, it detects it and slows it, and repeats the operation to make it faster if it gets... | |
| Direct Drive vs. Idler Drive vs. Belt drive Dear @mikelavigne and frieds: Mike,with all respect servos per sé are not a devil it does not matters where you use it. For your coments in this thread seems to me that that word over distress you and with out any single reason/facts true3 facts o... | |
| Direct Drive vs. Idler Drive vs. Belt drive Dear @cleeds : @mikelavigne was refering to the BD/ID model TTs he owns today: Saskia and Csport against the excellent DD @jtinn NVS Refrence TT he owns too.I really don't know the kind of motors that uses the Saskia and Csport units.R. | |
| Cartridge suggestions for SME Turntable Dear @mijostyn : Yes, that was a kind of explanation with different end subjects.The other way and the one I'm refering to is the way we set up the VTF where static balance designs makes the job using natural force of gravity and between other ad... | |
| Direct Drive vs. Idler Drive vs. Belt drive Dear friends : I want to return to that " supposed "/hipothetic DD servo " problem and I want to do it because @mikelavigne was very emphatic about in this thread.This what Mike posted:""" when we consider belts, idlers, and direct drive......... |