rauliruegas
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| Why no interest in reel to reel if you're looking for the ultimate sound? Dear @scar972 : I think that you can make some changes in your analog rig to improve the quality level of your analog experiences with.As I posted that ZYX could be better served by a solid/gimball bearing tonearm as: Kuzma 4 point, Durand gimbal... | |
| Why no interest in reel to reel if you're looking for the ultimate sound? Dear @scar972 : First, even that I own 6k+ LP's I'm not looking for the ultimaTE ANALOG ALTERNATIVE.I'm looking for the ultimate MUSIC enjoyment. My system is a good system with very high resolution and with every kind of distortions at minimum.I... | |
| Help to pick belt driven turntable around $1500 Dear @adrobitko : Your requirements are " bizarre " for say the least:belt drive for 1.5k price ? ? ! ! there is no single BD TT even at 4K that can outperforms the today Technics DD: https://www.technics.com/us/products/premium-class/direct-d... | |
| Add cartridge to current lineup Dear @dawkimi : Great 20.7 speakers and a lovely SA-1 that were my dream amplifiers in those times but I never had the kind of money to buy it.Look. as you I'm a MUSIC lover and even that I own 6k+ LPs today the digital alternative is superior on... | |
| Rega tonearms using plastic bearings Dear @dronepunk : It depends the quality and kind of plastic you can use either for TT bearing or for tonearm pivot bearings. In both cases it needs extreme tigth tolerances and accuracy levels.Not many years ago ceramic was used for tonearm beari... | |
| Recommendations for a tonearm upgrade on a VPI Classic 4 turntable Dear @qchorn : Problem with the one you own is that’s a unipivot design an all unipivots are unstable to really permit any cartridge to shows it at its best, even the 2 point after market VPI up-grade has not the true stability need it and that an... | |
| 12" Tonearm What Have You Heard & Recommend? Dear @kanchi647 : I owned both tonearms models and the 407 is a little better but none is really a good tonearm that in true can honor MUSIc because does not permits to almost any cartridge that it can shows at its best.If you want something diffe... | |
| BEST HARMLESS/SIGNATURELESS SPEAKERS CAPACITORS. Dear @paulcreed : I want to tell thank you because you did the effort and took your time to test Wima caps, at least you was the only gentleman that posted about.Appreciated too what you posted that reflect your honest kind of sound through those ... | |
| Ikeda IT-407 tonearm geometry Dear @sdrsdrsdr : The Ikeda/FR specs are out of any alignment because they say overhang 12 mm, so they manipulate numbers.My take is to make the alignment according the P2S distance I posted and 13.28mm on overhang with an offset angle: 17.72°R. | |
| Ikeda IT-407 tonearm geometry dEAR @sdrsdrsdr : """ Then Raul gave his recommendations for it407 and his p2s was shorter than recommended. I was just hoping for a more general consensus. """YOU HAVE A TOTAL MISUNDERSTOOD ON ALMOST ALL WHAT i POSTED HERE.It’s normal your misund... | |
| Ikeda IT-407 tonearm geometry Dear friends: I posted that any one of us can manipulate in any tonearm any of the input alignment calculations and this means that each one of us can have a self " designed "/dedicated propietary alignment.That’s what the SAT tonearm did it when ... | |
| Ikeda IT-407 tonearm geometry Dear @sdrsdrsdr : P2S: 293.718 . I used and use Löfgren A. Many years ago I used Löfgren B. Before I learned my tonearm set up always was made according manufacturer specs, not any more. https://www.vinylengine.com/tonearm_alignment_calculator_p... | |
| Ikeda IT-407 tonearm geometry Dear @bukanona : That’s why Stevenson is no truwe alternative alignment and you can see it in the analog planet link that posted @sdrsdrsdr .Yes, the tracking error is independent of what your link stated but has a relationship that we can't just ... | |
| Ikeda IT-407 tonearm geometry Dear @lewm : Your post has no sense for me and useless to this thread.Btw, 1938 was the year E.Löfgren alignment studies and in 1941 Baerwald appeared with the same Löfgren A solution, nothing new with.Who cares what was available back then. Certa... | |
| Ikeda IT-407 tonearm geometry Dear @sdrsdrsdr : I posted in that Analog Planet thread because not even M.Fremer understand it the whole subject at 100%. I explain my take on the alignment issue and there I explained how was manipulated the parameters for that comparison align... |