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| Question on Basis turntable belt. The belt was the focus of considerable attention by Conti. The microanalysis of a belt contributes a lot to the speed stability of a belt drive. Rega have done major research on the same part of the turntable for their highest model the Naia. Just... | |
| Anyone ever listened to a vintage Victor Laboratory X1 cartridge Here's some more information: https://audiokarma.org/forums/index.php?threads/jvc-x2-and-z1-s-cartridges.763313/ | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm Getting the best, the measure of their quality, from individual components assembled into a listening system especially if they are high acheivers is akin to assembling a complex list of ingredients for a complex food item. For a master chef the ... | |
| 10 iconic TT The Ariston RD11, the original, never gets its due credit. | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm Hey if Tracing Error no longer matters why not throw the bath away with the baby and the bathwater and say nothing matters. Set it up however you like and if you're good with it, eveything's fine. Is that the answer? | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm The same is the case with the Yamaha YSA-2 straight no offset underhung arm. Yamaha commisioned a variation of the YSA-1. The problem is that the bearing yoke of the YSA-1 is offset like the headshell and in specifying the YSA-2 no offset headshel... | |
| MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY? I posit a scenario about live music: This is not a theoretical exercise. We have all experienced it. Music/ someone singing or both/multliples. We are outside of the building. There is no direct sound transmission of the live in the flesh perf... | |
| MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY? I am seriously thinking of sending both the LZ-9S and the HZ-9S to you Raul. I haven't got the arm for them here. | |
| MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY? Some more https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/lounge-audio-copla-head-amp-a-great-performance-upgrade-for-homc-cartridges.1182674/page-2 | |
| MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY? Lew, here is a discussion on AudioKarma about the series https://audiokarma.org/forums/index.php?threads/do-you-have-a-stanton-epoch-ii.902636/ Also here is some more info | |
| MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY? Raul, Have you used the Stanton Epoch II LZ9S? I have a NOS LZ9S and HZ9S. I posted the specifications here: https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/lounge-audio-copla-head-amp-a-great-performance-upgrade-for-homc-cartridges.1182674/page-2 ... | |
| Pass Labs XA30.8 vs XA60.8 moon blocks They should nickname the XA60.8 amps The Eclipse. Because they are Moon blocks. | |
| We should reject hard-to-drive speakers more often I give you permission to reject hard to drive speakers, on my behalf. Keep up the good work. | |
| If it sounds 'great', everything is ok? I know that if I took my car to a service center,paid good money for a service and was told that they did it by ’feel’. When they ’felt good’ about the intervention, that was all the car needed. I would feel ripped off. If I went to catch a co... | |
| What's all the fuss about late 70s and earl 80s run of the mill midfi turntables? The ’Vinyl Revival’ has created a market for a new segment of buyers who never grew up with a turntable. They want a turntable but they have no experience. Meanwhile, because of decades of vinyl sales there are literally thousands of turntables fo... |