terry9
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| Trans-Fi Terminator Tonearm: 2019 Update Actually, my KRSP is 12 g , not 9.My lady bought the KRSP with diamond cantilever for an important birthday. My first Koetsu. Yep - luckiest man in the galaxy. | |
| Bang for the buck vs. “money no object” cable recommendations If you're really on a budget, Digikey sells Switchcraft connectors which are almost as good as ETI, but 1/10 the price. | |
| Bang for the buck vs. “money no object” cable recommendations Mogami microphone cable is excellent. The shield is good and it is easy to separate for termination. The insulation is cross-linked polyester, IIRC, and that is pretty much as good as teflon, but it is easier to bend and safer to work with.Canare ... | |
| Trans-Fi Terminator Tonearm: 2019 Update Ledoux, the stone bodies are at the apex, but according to one of the K connoisseurs on this site, stone is a marginal improvement over the platinum rosewood, while diamond cantilever is a big improvement. He should know - he’s done a lot of audit... | |
| Trans-Fi Terminator Tonearm: 2019 Update Don, thanks for the thought about CF arm. I associate CF with lightness and rigidity, but not mass and damping. Depends on the design, obviously, and equally obviously I should have tried that first. | |
| Trans-Fi Terminator Tonearm: 2019 Update Ledoux, Panzerholz is a trade name for an exotic German plywood: half millimetre slices of beech hardwood embedded in a matrix of phenolic resin. It’s dead, dead, dead.I built the wand out of blocks of 3/4" thick ply, epoxied together to form a st... | |
| Trans-Fi Terminator Tonearm: 2019 Update Just finished my Panzerholz wand. It's more massive than the Tomahawk but that's for the (higher mass) Koetsu, so that I don't need to add weights and damping material all over the thing. I also use an aluminum disk (alloy 7075) tapped to mate wit... | |
| Analog upgrade path Cartridges wear out.Turntables don't. Neither do tonearms. Nor phono stages. Anyway, investing in any of them will get you further than a cartridge, even a Koetsu (which I own). IMO.I had a Technics SL1500 in my room for a time, paired to an air b... | |
| My journey to find a speaker + amp + setup for classical music (piano) Be sure to audition planar speakers. You just can't expect to reproduce the sound of a concert grand and its 20 square feet of soundboard, let alone an orchestra, with 3 or four square feet of speakers. IMO.I have similar tastes, and use two pairs... | |
| New-ish to Audiogon Forums... Is it always like this? Other than a few turkeys who see fit to pollute the forum with their sophomoric political tropes, I find it to be pretty informative. | |
| Opinions wanted: 10-30K Speakers for Jazz/Folk @mglik is right. I have used both Quad 57’s and the latest versions. The latest gives you an extra octave top and bottom, but there’s not all that much music there. The 57’s are just as satisfying as the latest versions.The second best room I’ve e... | |
| Opinions wanted: 10-30K Speakers for Jazz/Folk Eh? Is this an audio forum? Or is it just an opportunity to bother people? | |
| Opinions wanted: 10-30K Speakers for Jazz/Folk Be sure to audition planar speakers. Personally, I’m into Quad ESL arrays. 2905 / 2912 described as clarity without edge - but also, no head-banging volume. YMMV | |
| members and their systems @bigkidz "You cannot buy the sound from a component that you can learn to build on your own."Too right. Who ever heard of a component using vacuum capacitors? Just for example. | |
| SoundSmith cartridges how good? Thanks Bill. |