slimpikins5
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| Tone Arm board material The service dept. at SME sent me a note this morning, they say magnesium would not be beneficial for the arm board, they like to use either aluminum or brass. Delrin is good too as yes its part of the super platter, which by the way I have on my A... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Lewm, I am not sure how to accomplish this. I spoke with Gold Note and they told me it would require internal rework on one of the boards. They can do, but it would not be something the user can do. | |
| Tone Arm board material OK, this is interesting; I spoke with the chief designer at Oracle Audio in Canada on this subject. He said that my stock arm board puck on the VPI Ares3 is 1 inch thick acrylic which is a very good material. He said Acrylic is a surprisingly go... | |
| Tone Arm board material I do understand the strength to weight issue with magnesium, however I have also been told that it is very good at dampening sound vibrations which is why I was considering this material. It would be nice to find a table of dampening values for v... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Raul,It's too bad the Gold Note PH10 doesn't offer a 100K setting for the input impedance, it would be fun to see how that would work with my AT20ss | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Here is something new I discovered this morning: speaking of unscrupulous dealers/sellers:As I had mentioned earlier, I have an original AT15ss cartridge I purchased new from a dealer who I did some work for part time in college. The Cartridge b... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Raul,Thank you for the suggestion of Magnesium for the arm board material. I found a supplier of magnesium tooling plate which is 97% magnesium with Aluminum and zinc making up the 3% in the alloy. They say that the tooling plate machines better... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? And to add into the mix here; I have another thought I have been wondering about: I recently picked up a micrometer head which I am going to modify into a VTA fine adjustment for the SME Series IV as it doesn't have this. The the Series V does ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? There was a thread on Audiogon quite a while ago in which a former engineer from Audio Technica was participating. He wrote a rather in depth post as to why Beryllium was the go to material for cantilevers and the panic that ensued at AT when th... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? I paid over $300 for my NOS AT15ss and if an AT20ss stylus was to be found, it would be far more money... I had posted a want ad for one and a guy in Russia contacted me; he wanted $1000 for it. It was not only on the high side, I am not so sure ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Just from everything I have read from people who have a lot more experience than I do, the Beryllium was the best material ever used for cantilever's. According to one individual who worked for Audio Technica, they were unable to reproduce anythi... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Harold, I will bet my bottom dollar that the stylus you picked up from LP gear had been mishandled and that is why the cantilever was off axis. I have an AT15ss with the same problem, but it was totally due to pilot error on my part. I was working... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Raul,I have an excellent listening room. I have 10,000 cubic feet of space, 18 feet high of vaulted ceiling; a pair of Anthem M1 mono block amplifiers at 2000 watts per channel, Bryston Signature series Model T main speakers, three sub woofers, t... | |
| New Gold Note PH 10 To answer the question, yes I have a fairly new PH10, I got it around a month ago, but I am not sure if its the latest version with the lowered noise floor. That was not really of interest to me as I was told the improved amplifier section for l... | |
| New Gold Note PH 10 I will send an inquiry off to Gold Note to ask about the idea of increasing the loading to 100K for MM and see if there is a simple solution to trying it without getting into the guts of the unit. |