sancho22

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Am I asking too much?
Well for the Klipsch, Fidelity Research and the Phillips I have the matching factory SUT.I use the Auditorium Hommage T2 (Seteophile class A+; ~$5k new, $3K or so used) )with the Ortofon Cadenza and the Auditorium A23 with the Denon-103 - the one ... 
Am I asking too much?
Well I have a bunch of old carts from Grace, Pickering MM, to tricked out Denon-103 )mono and stereo), Fidelity Research, Supex (both retipped), Klipsch MCZ7, Phillips GP922. Some others I just got (on their way to me). Also, some new ones like th... 
Am I asking too much?
Mdalton - i misread it - looked like you already purchased the cart.My bad.Good luck. 
Anyone experienced speed issues with Artemis Labs SA-1?
sorry to hear that.I think I will take mine in a few weeks time for some check-up... 
Am I asking too much?
I did enjoy the last few month's journey of tinkering with a Garrard.Not as great a yours but has a DAS plinth, some new parts - all installed by myself.Dr Feickert alignment tool helped with a vintage cart alignment.Used Schroeder and rebuild vin... 
ls FM radio even listenable any more?
Bunch of good stations still - I am in Northern NJ and use a McIntosh MR71, Fisher FM-1000, MX-110Z, Marantz ST-8...Philly, NYC and NJ stations are all decent form classic rock to jazz to classical. My favorite is the Temple University station, wh... 
Help - Scroeder CB-9" tonearm - anti-skating setting issue
Made some adjustments and now it seems everything is OK - for now.Frank also responded and he suggested dates same, but he is concerned that someone might have twisted the wires and eventually he will need to service the arm.Now there is some issu... 
Help - Scroeder CB-9" tonearm - anti-skating setting issue
thanks guys I will try tonight!No distortion, actually plays beautifully until it hits a spot when it starts skipping close to the end of the side. 
Help - Scroeder CB-9" tonearm - anti-skating setting issue
Nope, issue is back however only at about half way through the last song on each LP. Sounds really nice despite all this pain...wil continue tinkering. 
Anyone experienced speed issues with Artemis Labs SA-1?
nope. Issue is back. Time to bring it to a professional... 
Help - Scroeder CB-9" tonearm - anti-skating setting issue
Good news - at least for nowspent about 5 min fine tuning the VTA and taking the anti skate screw in and out twice and now all is good actually it sounds so good that I really don’t even want to touch it lol 
Help - Scroeder CB-9" tonearm - anti-skating setting issue
I will check - that may be the issue (lets hope).Otherwise it will be months with the current shipping times to and from Germany. Other countries seem to a bit better  (except Spain). 
Help - Scroeder CB-9" tonearm - anti-skating setting issue
Thanks guys!I played with it last night a bit more, before reading these posts.No improvement, but the VTA, VTF (1.8g) is OK and the TT is level.Cannot confirm the overhang and azimuth as I could not have the arm not move to perform those.It track... 
Speaker shootout update; aggressive treble eliminating some (fairly?)
I had good luck with ProAc, Merlin and Sonus Faber Cremona monitors.WLM (now sort of vintage) La Scala and Diva are great as well.I suspect the DeVore Gibbon 3XL could work too.Lot son great opr=tions suggested already. 
New Turntable Direction
Well I have to agree with the 301/401 and even Lenco suggestions.I have all three and a VPI, Artemis labs and Yamaha GT-2000...I know.Theer is something really organic, natural and my ears immensely pleasing about the 301 and 401. I bought two in ...