sarcher30
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| Wood armwand vs Metal armwand There are techniques to make wood stable. Such as immersing it in a stablizing product, and applying a vacuum to draw the water out and the stablizer in. This replaces the water in the wood with a resin that will not be effected by humidity. Certa... | |
| VPI Direct Drive Turntable I'd rather have The Beat TT by Steve Dobbins for 30K. He will even come out and install it for you. | |
| New $35K pivoting tonearm The only kind of bearing that works like that, and does not change the geometry, when flexed, are Flex Pivot bearings. Why they don't just come out and say that is what they are using, I don't know. Probably don't want anyone else to catch on. The... | |
| Linear tracking tonearms..... Hiho, that's true. You still have to take the head shell off to make an adjustment, because you can't get to the cartridge screws with it on the arm. That's allot more awkward, and will take much more time to dial in. | |
| Linear tracking tonearms..... Peter, Most linear tracking arms I've seen have slotted head shells. So they can be adjusted to compensate mis-alignment by other adjustments, like VTA, and VTF. Most have a protractor with a straight line (instead of an arc), with lines that are ... | |
| VPI Classic platter - is center milled? That's strange. When I had my Classic 1 with the previous aluminum platter, the VPI outer ring worked pretty well on warps. I'm not sure why the new platter with the rubber donut would be different. How tall is the donut? Maybe it needs a little m... | |
| VPI Classic platter - is center milled? Wow. That seems like a poor decision on VPI's part. IME rubber mats suck. It makes no sense to raise the middle section so you have to use their rubber mat. Now if you want to use an aftermarket mat, it has to go on top of the rubber one. Or if yo... | |
| VPI Classic platter - is center milled? By gasket, I mean rubber washer for use with the screw down clamp. I am assuming this is what Abp689 is talking about? I can't imagine the platter would get through quality control if it was that bad on it's own. | |
| VPI Classic platter - is center milled? It's the gasket that is causing your problem. The gasket is for use with the center clamp only. It's only useful if you don't have the outer ring clamp. If you screw down the center clamp enough, with the gasket underneath, it will flatten out the... | |
| DAC with ESS Sabre chip, volume, XLR+RCA simult. Jeez Audiolabyrinth, you don't want much, do you? ;) Ok, Exasound is made in Canada. All the info is on their website. http://www.exasound.com/ | |
| DAC with ESS Sabre chip, volume, XLR+RCA simult. Exasound e20 or e28. If you use the e28 you will have separate volume control for each output. The volume control on these is neither resistor based nor digital based. The software based volume control tells the dac chip how much voltage to output... | |
| Thales Simplicity tonearm review in Stereophile. Yeah, the alignment would be way off. On the other hand, if you could make up for that, by changing the P2S distance on a table with a pivoting arm board. Having the headshell backward would allow you to get to the cartridge screws, and you would ... | |
| Brinkmann Bardo and Tri-Planar VII-U armrest issue Bummer. Sounds like the arm board was drilled incorrectly. One other thing to try, would be to remove the arm board from the table and flip it over. Maybe you have it upside down? | |
| Brinkmann Bardo and Tri-Planar VII-U armrest issue Can you unscrew the arm from the arm board and rotate it couter clockwise one screw position, then srcew it back down to the arm board? If so, give that a try, and then realign the P2S distance. | |
| Interesting analog experience Big deal. Did you then play the same music on the turntable after that? If so, what did they say then? |