thom_at_galibier_design
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| 9", 10" or 12" tonearms This thread runs the risk of rehashing everything we've talked about over the past few years. With that in mind, I encourage the original poster to use the search facility on both this forum, Audio Asylum, DIY Hi-fi, etc. For the purpose of this t... | |
| Problem with my Triplanar I would definitely re-visit the setup from start (turntable leveling) to finish (geometry, azimuth, etc.). Something changed, and this will recruit your observational skills to check amongst other things, what Win (Moisin) and Doug have recommende... | |
| TriPlanar Tips Yes, you have to unmount the arm to remove the trough, and yes you want to remove the support bar. The idea is to eliminate a vibrating tuning fork. You'll be removing two small, straight slotted jewelers' screws.Store everything in your Tri-Plana... | |
| Rickie Lee Jones "Pop Pop" Female voice is a grueling system test. Ricki's is one of the more difficult ones for an analog rig to negotiate. Don't think it's only your analog setup however. A female voice can send some horrendously challenging transients to torture an entir... | |
| Naim Aro to replace my Schroder No. 2? What everyone said before me. Keep the Schroeder and and enjoy your music.Invest in a Mint LP arc protractor if you have not done so already (assuming that you don't already have an arc protractor). This will open your eyes and will likely be the ... | |
| Cartridge impedance: How important is it ?? Hi Sunnyjim,I think what you're trying to say, is that you expect the 10X5 to want to see a 1K load. The DCR of the 10X5 is 150 ohms. You can link the the Dynavector site from my Dynavector page over here for all of the specs: http://www.galibierd... | |
| Help. Wife says Teres 340 Is too bright. Hi Art,I missed any reference to your using step-up trannies. Which ones are you using? Step-up ratio (or alternatively, dB of gain)?So, if your cartridge is seeing a 42R load (and assuming you are loading the secondary of your step-up trannie), t... | |
| Help. Wife says Teres 340 Is too bright. Hi Art,Yes, a starting point of 5-10 times the DCR of the cartridge is a good starting point for loading experiments, but I like to do the "unreasonable" and listen to the cartridge running "wide open" - just to set limits and to understand how th... | |
| Help. Wife says Teres 340 Is too bright. That you're loading at 42 ohms is telling me that there are likely some nasties elsewhere in your system, including (possibly) setup, but likely a component mismatch.I feel your pain. I've been there. You mention that this 42 ohm load is unchanged... | |
| Help. Wife says Teres 340 Is too bright. Even later to the party ... heed Doug's observations and revisit your entire signal chain.I strongly suspect that you are shooting the messenger (Teres / O-L / Benz). With your new vinyl rig, you have a lower noise floor which yields increased dyn... | |
| Present analogue play back designs....Advanced? Turntables are much like the bicycle. The essential design architecture was cast some 75 years ago.Now, we're mostly benefiting from improvements in material science, with interestingly (for me), the use of carbon based materials in both bikes and... | |
| RMAF 2009 Analog Report + Meet and Greet Thanks Frank,Actually, I suspected that the real reason for the common thinking was even more direct - that since Mark Kelly hangs out on John Atwood's Clarsonus Blog, that a dialog ensued between the two of them at some point in time.The hundredt... | |
| RMAF 2009 Analog Report + Meet and Greet Hi Frank,"Hundred Monkey" - a hundred monkeys pedaling bicycles attached to a turntable platter with no cogging ;-) Actually, the "research" claims (largely discredited) that coincidental, spontaneous, quantum learning occurs in groups which separ... | |
| RMAF 2009 Analog Report + Meet and Greet Eddy current brake on the platter, Frank ... you been talkin' to Mark Kelly too, or is this one of those hundred monkey sort of things?Cheerio,Thom @ Galibier | |
| Should I avoid thick vinyl? And ... I've found that the better you get your other setup parameters (e.g. use an arc protractor), the less you're bothered by slight VTA changes. I'm far more bothered by bad alignment (e.g. overhang/pivot-spindle/offset) along with azimuth mis... |