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| Suitable cartridge fore Schroeder reference arm Lyras will work very well, and are one of Frank's favorites. Personally, I'd get an Ortofon SPU Royal N and consider myself a happy boy. It's a great combination and works very well with high mass tonearms.I'm really sorry I sold this one and one ... | |
| Mint LP a no go – now what? Greetings,I go nuts when manufacturers won't divulge a simple spec. like effective length. I've been trying to find this number for the Well Tempered arm for someone, and Well Tempered treats this number as if it were a military secret.Don't these... | |
| SRA Isolation Platform under a Turntable Hi all,Dmailer's and Audiotomb's observations are consistent with 98% of owners who have converted from the older Teflon topped platters to the graphite/TPI series. The graphite top renders the Anvil as being too much of a good thing (damping).The... | |
| VTA on a Triplanar Tvad,It's one thing to have a feature on a tonearm (VTA on the fly) and quite another this feature to not compromise the basic tasks that a tonearm is intended to provide (sonics).I'd opt for inconvenience (omitting a feature) if its implementatio... | |
| VTA on a Triplanar Hi Sunnyboy,There is no industry standard for height differential between platter and tonearm mounting plane, although turntables tend to be clustered fairly closely in this dimension. The point is that a Tri-Planar setting of 5.5 on one turntable... | |
| Triplanar RCA out to Balanced out for MP-1 Hi Tpsonic,I feel a bit uncomfortable talking about the MP-1 in a "review" context, since I sell Atma-Sphere, but in the next 10-14 days, I'll set up an Atma-Sphere section on my forum and I'll comment about it in detail over there.I think break-i... | |
| Mintlp Spend some time and bond with your protractor ;-)As Swampwalker sez, trace the arc first, and then worry about offset angle.Cheers,Thom | |
| Tonearm without off-set Hi William62,One more thing ... Removing the offset angle still leaves you with the decision as to whether to create overhang, underhang, or neither. You still need to arrive at an alignment strategy that minimizes tracing distortion for your chos... | |
| Tonearm without off-set What Doug and Raul said ...Look up the numbers on John Ellison's gift to analog-kind - his Baerwaald / Loefgren spreadsheet on the "Free Stuff" section of the Enjoy the Music website. This is Frank Schroeder's and my bible.If you have trouble find... | |
| Artemis Labs Ph-1 owners..... Quick follow-up ...The .2mv to .6mv range would be a good working number when using a 1:10 SUT, but your entire system gain structure needs to be taken into account. If you work your way into the say, 1.0mv range, (high o-p MC) you'll be on the th... | |
| Artemis Labs Ph-1 owners..... Happy New Year,Dave got it right as far as gain structure, of course, most everything I learned about gain, I learned from him.The PH-1 is somewhat odd, living between an MC and MM level - at 52dB. MM phono stages typically come in at 36-40dB and ... | |
| Who's familiar with Audiocraft/Ultracraft AC300? Yes. adding damping can (speaking in broad terms) help you out when using a slightly less compliant cartridge than would otherwise be ideal.When I had the AC-300, my main cartridge was a Benz M0.9 - one of three cartridges in the wood bodied line ... | |
| Who's familiar with Audiocraft/Ultracraft AC300? Nice arm, I owned one. Get a Sumiko headshell from the Needle Doctor. While you don't need the azimuth feature this headshell has (you can accomplish this with your arm with the outrigger weights), the Sumiko headshell is machined from a solid bil... | |
| Acoustic Signature Turntables I did some research, and experimented myself with another table, on oil viscosity and its effect on the sound. I've found that the oil used need to be specially formulated for the oil-well and bearing tolerance in order to suppress the resonance g... | |
| Triplanar RCA out to Balanced out for MP-1 Hi Tim,Well, I know where the MP-1 is going to end up - having lived with one for 3 days in my home away from home, at the Rocky Mountain Audiofest in October. The only new component in the system was the Classic Audio T-3 (field coil) speakers.Ab... |