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| Thorens TD-226 and VG26 Vacuum generator I am aware that for a short time Thorens did produce a vacuum platter mat that they named "Thorens Disc Contact". It was often used on a TD126 or TD127 or TD226. But the "Disc Contact" could be used on any of the two piece platter systems within... | |
| Proper cartridge angle for Shelter 501 using tonearn height adjustment I have the height set at 0.8mm from "0". It can go up as much as 6mm. This puts it at near min.Tracking weight at 1-1/4 grams, anti skate at 1-1/4. I am installing a Sumiko headshell in lieu of the stk Technics. I figured as long as everythin... | |
| What is best turntable for listening to Rock from the sixties like Led Zeppelin? The sound quality isn’t great, so rather than something super revealing, something that is very musical, and can also convey the magic. Sort of the Decca cartridge equivalent of turntables. I am guessing less Caliburn and Techdas, more Linn, R... | |
| What is best turntable for listening to Rock from the sixties like Led Zeppelin? "I’ve professionally mixed, recorded, and performed electric and acoustic music for decades, and if anybody thinks acoustic instruments are less dynamic than electric ones, they’re unaware of the of the basics of music sound and reproduction. ... | |
| What is best turntable for listening to Rock from the sixties like Led Zeppelin? " Again, the idea that a turntable or cartridge (or other component) serves a certain genre of music better than some other is one of the biggest myths in audio. "It is entirely possible to optimize the TT for one genre over another. Much of ... | |
| Proper cartridge angle for Shelter 501 using tonearn height adjustment The 501 type 2 is known to find its best tonal balance and focus in a tail-down attitude. My exp and many others.-Steve | |
| What is best turntable for listening to Rock from the sixties like Led Zeppelin? " Yeah…anybody who isn't clueless about actual music might have differing views. What nonsense…a clear weird bias against supposed "guitar amp fuzz" indicating a very limited understanding or appreciation of great Rock and Roll music renders th... | |
| What is best turntable for listening to Rock from the sixties like Led Zeppelin? In rock, and on some rock records, too much definition can be a distraction.It is possible to 'tune' (or voice) a turntable to compliment one genre of music or another. With sixties and seventies rock it might be advisable to select a cartridge a... | |
| Your favorite BEACH BOYS LP besides PET SOUNDS If you just want to listen to their radio hits, then there are two 'best-of' Lps to get; volume 1 and volume 2.I came of age during the 60's and the background music during that era was often coming from The Beach Boys. Pick any pop top-40 statio... | |
| SP10mk2: OMA Graphite plinth vs.Dobbins plinth "09-20-15: ChaksterSteve, what about version for "12 inch tonearms? "For 11" and 12" tonearms, I would need to draw new plans to incorporate longer tonearms into this plan. As it is, I drew my plan specifically for the tonearm I had planned to use... | |
| SP10mk2: OMA Graphite plinth vs.Dobbins plinth Link below to a recent project with my sp10 mkII. http://www.theanalogdept.com/user510_sp10_mkii.htmI had already tried a high mass approach with stacked layers of baltic birch multi-ply. Then the idea occurred to me that 'what if' one tried a lig... | |
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| the difficult second Lp Quote\ 02-27-15: PhasecorrectThis hurts me to say this as a committed fan...but Strange Days is vastly inferior to their debut...I think most Doors fans would agree...and true... they faltered even farther after this...and peaked on the sublime LA... | |
| the difficult second Lp The Doors' follow-up album was at least equal to the debut eponymous album from this group. And Strange Days lacked the perverse lyric found in the first album's last cut; "The end". Others would say that both "Days" and the debut album are from t... | |
| Cartridge impedance loading question I've used this cartridge for a number of years.My various phono stages have all been of the moving magnet kind, 47Kohms at input. I have adjusted loading by means of different step up transformers.For a long time I used an sut that reflected a loa... |