terry9
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| Direct Drive vs. Idler Drive vs. Belt drive Perhaps you should try a heavy platter NA. I have one, and it does not suffer from the ills which you list. | |
| Koetsu Blue Lace Onyx vs. Coralstone @mulveling Tell you what, Mulvening. If you want to pay the mail too and fro, I’ll clean a record for you (free) and you can see if it's worth the investment. I hang out in Victoria, Canada, on the wet coast. | |
| Koetsu Blue Lace Onyx vs. Coralstone @mulveling Expect I'm preaching to the Pope, but just wanted to say that I've had great results with ultrasonic cleaning. I use a German commercial unit, the Elmasonic, which has an 80KHz option. The results are obvious sonically, but also you can... | |
| SUT vs. Phono preamp Agreed, and noted. | |
| SUT vs. Phono preamp @rauliruegas @enginedrI have not listened to any of the SUT’s that you mentioned, but I have listened to some very good vintage SUT’s, both factory assembled and DIY assembled. None was as good as the 1931Ag, and only one was close.We all three se... | |
| SUT vs. Phono preamp @rauliruegas ,materials is always important but I think that the more critical and important characteristics belongs to the rigth build transformer design and the quality level for the excecution of that design.I agree. I tried to say that in the ... | |
| Direct Drive vs. Idler Drive vs. Belt drive @lewm That's right. So did their other top tables. It actually looks like a composite of some description, but performs very much like the graphite slab on my DIY. | |
| Koetsu Blue Lace Onyx vs. Coralstone Posting in error. Sorry. | |
| Direct Drive vs. Idler Drive vs. Belt drive @tomwh , Suspended the pieces with string or rope and tapped with a small piece of softwood. It was easier to match the frequency to piano keys than to set up a microphone, Revox, and frequency counter; and my spectrum analyzer is old and too heav... | |
| Direct Drive vs. Idler Drive vs. Belt drive 2000Hz | |
| SUT vs. Phono preamp @andirocks , IMO materials are far more important than brand; further, I trust the Lundahl brand far more than Cardas. In any case, my experience is with the state-of-the-art Lundahl 1931Ag. | |
| SUT vs. Phono preamp On what basis? Try it.Hook up your cartridge to your phono stage and listen to a record cut at low volume levels, set to the volume you like to hear. - Do you hear distortion? - Does it play loud enough?- Lift the cartridge. Do you hear a hissing ... | |
| Direct Drive vs. Idler Drive vs. Belt drive @chakster , graphitestore.com helped me with expert advice and a good product at a very fair price. I was told that they have provided platter mats before, but never as thick as an inch. My big iron platter rings at 500Hz, the graphite top rings a... | |
| Direct Drive vs. Idler Drive vs. Belt drive @chakster , have you considered graphite? The good people at the Graphite Store were very helpful. I use 1", which they thought was a bit over the top. | |
| Direct Drive vs. Idler Drive vs. Belt drive Agreed. |