richardbrand
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| Anyone notice different amounts of surface noise with different arms? @mijostyn Seems as if we are furious agreement on most things! My stereo was stolen just after CDs came out, and just before I did a round-world trip. I called unannounced on Quad in Huntington, UK and met Peter Walker. I asked him what he thou... | |
| Anyone notice different amounts of surface noise with different arms? @mijostyn You seem to rely a lot on imagination and thought experiments, but are reluctant to believe in the resonance properties of structures like tonearms. Don't forget that at one end of the tonearm is a highly sensitive transducer that picks... | |
| Anyone notice different amounts of surface noise with different arms? The name "tone-arm" says it all! If they are neutral, they would be called pick-up arms or similar. May I make a suggestion! To eliminate cartridge set up variables, play a silent track, that is one containing no musical information, so no VTA ... | |
| Anyone notice different amounts of surface noise with different arms? Ivor Tiefenbrun of Linn would not agree that "all the best arms of similar mass sound exactly the same" unless you define "the best" as those that sound the same! He was notorious for throwing records around during demonstrations, in part to show ... |