rauliruegas
Responses from rauliruegas
| Ikeda IT-407 tonearm geometry Dear @sdrsdrsdr @edgewear : Löfgren was and is the gentleman who made the overall research that permits him to develops the formulas to make the critical tonearm/cartridge set up calculations parameters.What wanted Löfgren to calculate?, two main ... | |
| Ikeda IT-407 tonearm geometry Dear @sdrsdrsdr : There is no problem with Ikeda geometry. The problem is to understand how the tonearm/cartridge set up alignment works.Forgeret about the Ikeda specs because you can change the effective length of any tonearm changing the pivot ... | |
| Cartridge alignment with non slotted headshell? Dear @sdrsdrsdr @bukanona : Not Ortofon, they only gaves what the people in Japan ask for the 95% of those Ortofon cartridges were sold in Japan in those times: only business. Problem was developed in Japan and that's why Stevenson made what he m... | |
| BEST HARMLESS/SIGNATURELESS SPEAKERS CAPACITORS. Dear friends: Outstanding, overwhelming, wonderful, paramount, astonishing, incredible, marvelous, gorgeous, facinating, jawless, amazing, ligth years a head, orders of magnitude, impressive, stunning, startling, sensational, unexpected, etc, etc.... | |
| Cartridge alignment with non slotted headshell? Dear @sdrsdrsdr : You are rigth, in those kind of cartridges you just can't set up the zenith parameter.In those vintage times no one cares about not even the tonearm/cartridge manufacturers and Ortofon just gave and gives them what they ask for,... | |
| Do I need an overhang gauge, in addition to a protractor to position cartridge correctly? Dear @millercarbon : """ Records are by far the best gateway drug into the world of high end audio. More and more people are turning to records because they hear the difference. """From some time now I disagree with you. I can't deny that the L... | |
| Do I need an overhang gauge, in addition to a protractor to position cartridge correctly? Dear @millercarbon: "" Mine is to help guys get set up and enjoying music. Not navel gazing and worrying and spending more on mounting the cartridge than on the cartridge itself. ......... Why not, instead of making it harder and harder, ...""Y... | |
| Do I need an overhang gauge, in addition to a protractor to position cartridge correctly? Dear @bilwojo : "" Cartridge must be aligned straight in the headshel .."""well, in reality what needs to be straigth aligned with the lines in the protractor is the cantilever it self not the cartridge.R. | |
| Do I need an overhang gauge, in addition to a protractor to position cartridge correctly? Dear @yogiboy : Everything of the basic parameters in the cartridge/tonearm/TT set up is important to do it.Any pivoted tonearm design has a tracking error due that can track/move it tangentially during play back, it's inherent to any pivot norma... | |
| Do I need an overhang gauge, in addition to a protractor to position cartridge correctly? Dear @peterhaze476 : No, you only need the protractor, no need an overhang device.Btw, @cleeds :"" Overhang is the distance between pivot and spindle, plus the amount that the stylus point actually "overhangs" beyond the spindle .."""not exactl... | |
| Correct alignment for Fidelity Research 64fx/SPU? @lewm : For me over the EPA-100 is with out doubt the MAX-282. This tonearm comes with 3 diferent arm wands where one of them is a removable headshell J shape wand.It comes with a silicon oil facility at the pivot position and its unique gyroscop... | |
| Correct alignment for Fidelity Research 64fx/SPU? Dear @bdp24 : "" is at the pickup/cartridge/headshell end of the tonearm...""I agree because it's there where exist the very first " touch " in between cartridge and tonearms self generated vibrations/resonances/distortions and its feedback.Tha... | |
| What to upgrade to? Dear @bobheinatz : Now that you decided to go for a top cartridge here some alternatives where you can't go wrong with either: https://www.audiogon.com/listings/lisa1ecc-ortofon-mc-century-cartridge-cartridges https://www.audiogon.com/listing... | |
| Correct alignment for Fidelity Research 64fx/SPU? @lewm : How can I forgot this one?, the MS MAX 282 that's one of the best ever tonearm design.R. | |
| Correct alignment for Fidelity Research 64fx/SPU? Dear @lewm : I like well damped tonearms with fixed bearing pivot and with removable headshell.Vintage Technics and Lustre are inside those characteristics along AT design. All internally re-wired.From some time now I'm using my own designed and ... |