stefanl
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| P2 or P3 The motor upgrade has been said to be noticable but not that great a leap as an upgrade,I think it has more to do with pitch stability problems with the Planar 2 and 3 generally,which can be cured by a couple of lengths of electrical tape around t... | |
| P2 or P3 Sorry, I meant to say the RB250 has a brass stem and a plastic stub,whereas the RB300 has a steel stem and steel stub in their stock form.You get rid of the plastic stub on the RB250,replacing it with the metal counterweight of your choice,there a... | |
| P2 or P3 There are reasons that a modded RB250 can better a modded RB300.Firstly the RB250 still has bearings on both sides unlike the RB300 where they have removed 1 bearing to put a seemingly improved Bias adjuster in.The RB250 stem is brass as opposed t... | |
| Frequency Response of L.P's The frequencies in the ultrasonic area of LP's do not seem to "wear out" after repeated plays.The article by Stereophile's editor-in-chief John Atkinson called "What's going on up there" found in their archives section on-line is absolutely essent... | |
| Frequency Response of L.P's Yes,Mr.Neve says that he does not really know what makes us perceive sounds the way we do,but is a firm believer in wide bandwidth for commercial recordings.Anyway what goes on an LP in terms of bandwidth which was my original question and we seem... | |
| Frequency Response of L.P's The story about Geoff Emerick is true I have seen 2 Rupert Neve interviews online where he repeats it,and a discussion on a Pro-Audio forum talking about it and how well thought of he is.Anyway in a transcript I have,Mr.Neve talks about his 5106 C... | |
| Frequency Response of L.P's There is the old story of Geoff Emerick the Beatles guy calling Rupert Neve in to suss a fault on a console,that he designed,and Emerick's "golden ears" were not happy with.It turned out that Emerick could hear a fault in 3 panels generated by a 3... | |
| Denon 103 When I had a look for this cartridge Audiocubes online had the best price.stefanl | |
| What to do with Acrylic Platter? I think my mistake was not taking the original platter in for proper measurement.The machine shop said later they could not guarantee exact size,I got 2 platters and have settled for using a rubber O ring from a hardware store which gives a tight ... | |
| Goldring 1042 or Rega Exact That must be correct reference,sorry.It was off the top of my head from a thread I read on acrylic platters over at Vinyl Asylum, someone said that he had discussed the subject with Mr.Conti,who seemed to like the material.stefanl | |
| Goldring 1042 or Rega Exact I do use a form of mains power filtering I must admit, and have sat for some time with a stopwatch counting revolutions.My table deviates maybe, by about 3/10ths of a second per minute,perhaps with stylus drag it is right on spec.as the strobe loo... | |
| Goldring 1042 or Rega Exact Psychicanimal,you are correct when you say the weak link is the turntable,but there are ways around this.Firstly check the speed with a downloadable strobe from Extreme Phono's site.Planar 3's are usually 1-2% fast.To correct this, 2 equal spliced... | |
| OK, I said it... The resonant frequency of your Ortofon Kontrapunkt B is about 9.8hz with the 11g Rega arm.This is too low.You must accept 10hz as a basic minimum on a table of this quality because you are going to hear it.This has been discussed in the thread on ... | |
| Damping Rega Table Having considered my immediate options I put together a slap-up job of a 2inch concrete slab on pointy rubber feet as an isolation platform.Should I later try sorbothane feet on this? It is quite heavy and might be too much weight.stefanl | |
| Need help with Ortofon stylus force gauge Yes,you seem to have grasped the gist of it.I have an Ortofon gauge and I use it to approximate the weight.It only has 1.5-2.0g given on the scale.So you set it close to 2.0g i.e where you think 1.8g should be.Then you iterate around this area unt... |