thekong
Responses from thekong
| Trans Fi Salvation direct rim drive turntable Hi Harold, right that I have not experienced with the maglev Salvation, and I also agreed it would be very interesting to do so! As mentioned before, the only thing stopping me is, rightly or wrongly, I am biased towards a more rigid mechanical gr... | |
| Trans Fi Salvation direct rim drive turntable Lewm, my feeling is the modified Lenco and the Salvation are similar, and both lags slightly behind the other TTs in those areas mentioned. I want to stress that this is not day and night difference, but then, we are always talking about small dif... | |
| Trans Fi Salvation direct rim drive turntable Peterayer, Lewm,I maybe one of the very few posters on this thread to have actually compared the Salvation (the earlier version with non-magnetic bearing) to a number of worthy contenders in length in my own system!The other TTs included the Rockp... | |
| Trans Fi Salvation direct rim drive turntable It is ok, everyone has their own preference! Just like me, I feel the Salvation is more or less like a modified Lenco with slate plinth and upgrade bearing. A true bargain at its price, excellent in certain area, but compromised in others!It is ce... | |
| Trans Fi Salvation direct rim drive turntable Lewm, thank you for the detailed description! I was looking at some photos, and as you said, that DIN connector resembles the normal DIN found on most other tonearms, but I couldnt tell the size of the pins. Now, it is clear!I will certainly see ... | |
| Trans Fi Salvation direct rim drive turntable Dover,Thanks you for mentioning the Callas kit for ther Verdier. A simple, yet effective, solution to the problem! | |
| Trans Fi Salvation direct rim drive turntable The huge pins of the DIN-type connector are really not optimal for signal transfer, Hi Lewm,Why is that? Is that the standard DIN connector as seen on most tonearm, or is it a different type?There is a L07D which I may be able to get my hands on,... | |
| Trans Fi Salvation direct rim drive turntable On an earlier Verdier I preferred the ball in situ - more high frequency extension more grounded and better timing. Hi Dover,Thank you for your report! These are exactly the differences I have expected, and I would very much like to see Vic imple... | |
| Trans Fi Salvation direct rim drive turntable Yes, the La Platine can be used without the ball bearing in fully magnetic levitation mode! However, instead of for security reasons, I believe the ball bearing is there for establishing the loop rigidity as mentioned by Richard.Apparently, Contin... | |
| Trans Fi Salvation direct rim drive turntable quote] I've played around with the Verdier tt, the grand-daddy of tt's with fully magnetic vertical suspensions.[/quote]Hi Lewm, not sure if there are different versions of the Verdier, but the latest ones do include a ball bearing, so not really ... | |
| Trans Fi Salvation direct rim drive turntable At the risk of annoying a bunch of people ... Hi Richard, very true, maybe we should take this offline, but before that, I would like to put in one last point: It would be very interesting to place a DTI on the platter surface of a mag bearing TT... | |
| Trans Fi Salvation direct rim drive turntable Just for clarity, the LO7D uses the rotor magnets to remove 'some' of the vertical load on the thrust bearing (steel ball and hard plastic). It is not actually suspended in that there is mechanical contact. Hi Richard, Lewm,As I understand, there... | |
| Phono Pre multiple mc inputs+volume control Except to note that most actual linestages confer some gain on the signal, as well as impedance bufferingHi Lewm, yes the IO by itself doesn't really have the linestage gain. While, with phono input, the IO should have enough gain to directly driv... | |
| Phono Pre multiple mc inputs+volume control If I understand correctly, the volume of the IO is positioned in front of the final output buffer stage. The line input, of course, has to be connected in front of the volume control so it is actually buffered and should have no impedance issues.H... | |
| Phono Pre multiple mc inputs+volume control The Aesthetix Io Eclipse with volume control can be special ordered to have 2 phono inputs (instead of the normal 1 phono + 1 line level inputs)! |