terry9
Responses from terry9
| recessed center in old turntables platters ... why My Nottingham Mentor has both recessed areas machined into a 1 inch cylinder of graphite. Aftermarket mats invariably diminish performance. | |
| Wish List For Vinyl Pressings Gorecki, Symphony No 3. Stefania Woytowicz soloist, Ernest Bour cond. Soundtrack for the movie, "Police". Erato 9275.Absolutely stunning. Count me in for this one too. | |
| Wish List For Vinyl Pressings Hearing Solar Winds (TAS list), The Harmonic Choir, David Hykes dir, Ocora 558 607.Count me in for this one, Ralph. | |
| Trans-fi Terminator T3PRO opinions please... Spirit, now that I read my response I realize that the last sentence is misleading. True, but still misleading. The point is that the platter is perpendicular to gravity, and so is the tonearm, by measurement, not theorem. Everything being precisi... | |
| Trans-fi Terminator T3PRO opinions please... Hello Spirit.The thing is to get the arm absolutely parallel to the surface of the platter. Of course, it helps if your turntable platter does not wobble on its bearing!To this end, I had an aluminum plinth and tonearm tower made up at a precision... | |
| Trans-fi Terminator T3PRO opinions please... Hello Gary.I use three arm wands for my three main cartridges: MM, MC mono, and MC stereo. It takes only a minute to change arm wands, but ... 1. with cartridges so expensive to replace, I take extreme care with stylus guards, etc.2. each cartridg... | |
| Experience with Miyajima Takumi Cartridge? I have a M Zero mono cartridge. It is very good, but lacks the ultimate smoothness and sophistication of my pricier Koetsu. In my opinion, in my system. | |
| Record cleaning fluids I consulted a biochemist friend, and he suggested a good lab detergent. Fisher Scientific has a lab detergent especially formulated for plastics, VersaClean.With my VPI, I used a mixture in the range suggested, plus alcohol to 10%. Since there are... | |
| Trans-fi Terminator T3PRO opinions please... I bought this tonearm nearly three years ago, mounted on Nottingham Analogue's second best table from a dozen years before: 20Kg platter, upgraded bearing, upgraded plinth. Terminator's improvement over the $1500 NA tonearm was significant.The com... | |
| Spin Clean seems to add noise to records? Hello Rebbi.I always allow my records to air-dry in a dish-rack after cleaning and rinsing. When I first began washing records in my callow youth I used tap-water on a few, leaving a deposit which only came off with ultra-sound. Are you perhaps us... | |
| Opinions on bang for the buck on TT & tonearm I second the Trans-Fi Terminator tonearm (yeah, I know, but I didn't name it). Mine is working with a Notts Mentor (one of the last, with the new bearing), which I have re-plinthed to good effect.Friends with Schroeders seem impressed with the com... | |
| Thinking about getting into vinyl again... Glad it worked out for you, Ct. A knowledgeable dealer, as they say, is beyond the price of rubies. | |
| SUT's carts and amps When I had ARC gear, they were most accommodating. Why not ask them directly? They can probably advise a very inexpensive fix to reduce the gain. | |
| phono hum Magnetic fields decrease according to an inverse square law, that is, twice as far away means one quarter of the field strength. Try moving the amp 20 inches away - cheaper than new hardware. | |
| 6 new Totem Hawks vs a used Wilson system? Well, J, I don't think that there is anything wrong with having an obvious upgrade path. An upgrade can be done at any time, at leisure. Why not buy it once, and buy it right? |