sokogear
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| A pragmatic view of cartridge expenses / many questions If you are looking at TCO, Van den hul's have 2 advantages:1) They have a special shaped tip that supposedly lasts between 25-3500 hours, 25% or more longer than ellipticals and the like because of the way they sit in the record groove. Mine just ... | |
| Honest question about cartridge vs. turntable performance. Hey Chakster - it's just guidelines for percentage spend on a moderate system by component area (up to maybe $15-20K) . They also forgot the cables/conditioner which could eat up 10% ($1500-2000). The point is that if the source produces garbage, ... | |
| Mat for Rega P10 appreciate your honesty. It's trial and error. A lot of error. | |
| Anti skate question for Rega P8/RB 880 arm YES Elliott. TT is better than CD or anything digital IMHO. But let’s not go down that road. I had a discussion on a very similar topic a couple months back that went very deep with I think 500 posts. This was just what I hoped would be a simple a... | |
| Honest question about cartridge vs. turntable performance. I think it depends on the total price of the system, but in up to $15-20K systems, I think the allocation of 70% for the entire source is right on the money. I might reallocate within the.70% maybe (I am an arm guy), but the amp & speakers ca... | |
| Mat for Rega P10 For now it’s Washi.you never mentioned your recommendation lewm. Please enlighten me. | |
| Anti skate question for Rega P8/RB 880 arm Sounds like they are trying to sell some kind of product, but the bottom line is they are closer to what the tru lift guy is saying versus what Rega is saying. Since seeing a gradation of even 10% on the slider is tough, I'll keep it around .3-.4 ... | |
| Anti skate question for Rega P8/RB 880 arm Elliott- are you kidding me? No dealer I know goes to that level of insanity. I think you do have OCD even if you don't go down to the second level of your instructions.I just had a simple question - the tracking was set up by someone at VPI (Van ... | |
| Anti skate question for Rega P8/RB 880 arm Thanks lewm. I am pretty experienced with equipment over the decades, but never set up my own tables and never even thought about anti skate until the guy from tru lift brought it up because the arm was skating off his lift bar just last week. It ... | |
| Mat for Rega P10 I am almost at my wits end with this. I have the Washi mat (which is supposed to sound better), the Rega original mat, and last week when I was at VPI (new VDH distributor) getting my Van den hul cart replaced, he gave me a VPI mat that has a plas... | |
| What has been your costliest mistake in this hobby? Nothing wrong with a legitimate upgrade if you set $$ aside to spend some "pin money", or for a forced replacement from a broken component that is not worth the cost of repair. A merry go round of change for change sake looking for the holy grail ... | |
| Honest question about cartridge vs. turntable performance. Guys (or gals) the original question posed was not belt versus direct. One technology is not better than the other. It depends on the table. Some manufacturers make both types. OP is talking about going from a good basic turntable to something bet... | |
| What has been your costliest mistake in this hobby? Can we take the personal attacks out of this please? Settle up or agree not to sell each other anything anymore. | |
| Why the truth is not in them ?? I am unfollowing this discussion which has gone off the rails to a ridiculous tangent | |
| Why the truth is not in them ?? What is this, a philosophy course? C’mon guys. |