terry9
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| Thoughts On Turntable Clamps And Weights @pindac I would not try to re-invent the wheel. The carbon face air bearings from New Way are near perfect IMO, and they are cheaper to buy than to make. Again, IMO. | |
| Thoughts On Turntable Clamps And Weights @lewm 'Darkness' makes me think of an absence of treble - yet some of the most musical of TT, IMO, can also be described this way. Like the Nottingham Analogue Dais. Every time I've made a big improvement to my system, it's involved a loss of hig... | |
| Thoughts On Turntable Clamps And Weights @pindac Suggest that you rest the record directly on the Delrin, as Delrin and vinyl couple very well (speed of sound is essentially the same). Also, you might do better with thinner Delrin, as thick pieces can be heterogenous. Also, consider an... | |
| If you want lame advice DON'T do this! OP, you say, "Every professional installer (either for the home or the studio) measures, tweaks, measures, listens, and gets it right." My experience is otherwise. I've owned systems from 2 figures to 6, and every one of them was better than what... | |
| Thoughts On Turntable Clamps And Weights True, but under the label is vinyl. That too is important, or so I suspect. | |
| Thoughts On Turntable Clamps And Weights I should also note that an intimate contact of iron (steel) and graphite or Delrin renders the pair dead to vibration. Other metals, I don't know.. | |
| Thoughts On Turntable Clamps And Weights Not all weights and clamps are created equal. The contact surface with the record also matters. As the stylus moves in the groove, it causes the record to vibrate slightly. This is enough to cause detectable distortion. Therefore this vibration s... | |
| Thoughts On Turntable Clamps And Weights A weight does NOT necessarily raise the outer edge of the record. A properly designed reflex clamp is a well-known engineering solution to this problem. I use a very thin Delrin shim of about 75 mm diameter and a 2+Kg steel weight with a Delrin r... | |
| A Story about a Defective Signature Platinum "Koetsu is also distributed by MoFi." Yes. And the Epoch is better. IMO | |
| A Story about a Defective Signature Platinum That is a truly awful story. Sympathy. Like MSL apparently, Koetsu likes to hide. Maybe a cultural thing - so what? The effects are the same as ill will. That was part of my decision to buy more locally this time, and Grado is mightily accessible... | |
| A Story about a Defective Signature Platinum Consider Grado. Comparing the Diamond Koetsu Rosewood Signature Platinum with the Grado Epoch, the Epoch is just better. More resolving, smoother, better tracker. | |
| Fun With Cable Risers If the floor has 120VAC lines underneath, then cable lifters will do a lot whenever current flows. Otherwise, I doubt it. | |
| Why is Audiogon insisting on a verified physical address in order to post? Guess so. | |
| Why is Audiogon insisting on a verified physical address in order to post? I was asked and when I tried to comply, I was blocked. Twice. Third time lucky? | |
| Leaving my amplifier on ok? @bishop148 Try an isolation transformer. Not only does it protect your equipment, but it improves the sound more than a high end power cable. @invalid It's heat that's the main enemy. If the caps don't get hot, they'll last and last. |