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| New Teres Direct Drive Motor Available as Option Provocative comment:Fella's I have to say after switching to a Garrard 301 idler drive I'll nver go back to a belt. This seems like the same premise and is very interesting IMHO.A good customer of Frank Schroeder owns a Loricraft 301 and 501. They... | |
| Moving coil transfprmer? Trust us on the gain issue Bbaxley2. If you have to 'burn off gain' by keeping your volume pots at 9 or 10 o'clock, this means that you are passing signal through more of the pot as well as more resistance - a higher proportion of say, for example... | |
| Moving coil transfprmer? Hi Bbaxley2,Running with your pot set between 12 and 2 o'clock is a good place to be ... assuming you don't have any noise issues.It's not adviseable to have way too much gain, only to have to burn it off through an attenuator. Better "just enough... | |
| A "house sound" among turntable manufacturers ? Hi all,It's certainly a simple matter to significantly alter a turntable's sound by either setup variations or tonearm and cartridge swaps.In the 1990's I owned a Merrill - first trying to run my SME V tonearm on it. The sound was fairly lifeless,... | |
| New TT ideas please One thing I've learned in my DC motor travails is that there is a correct torque for a given platter mass.When I experimented with higher torque motors - everyone in the multiple evaluation sessions I conducted agreed with me that the sound took o... | |
| Maple platforms Hi all,Surely we need to accept the fact that some resonances will remain no matter what we do. We balance the task of minimizing resonances with a certain degree of picking our poison as far as what remains.I've posted comments about this on seve... | |
| What Makes a Good RIAA or Line Stage? Hi all,Thanks Jonathan, Mothra, Piedpiper and others for adding some very needed focus and perspective on the variability of the recording process, microphone selection, monitoring, etc. etc. Ultimately, as Piedpiper stated, we need a small cache ... | |
| How does one go about auditioning a new turntable? Hi Britishbane,Much as I'd love to sell you a Serac turntable, I agree with Raul.You can learn quite a bit about setting up your current rig, while shifting your focus to your electronics.I'd seriously look at an amplifier and line stage upgrade (... | |
| Teres still the way to go? All,I'm still waiting to pick up the bases. As soon as they land, I'll snap some quick photos (saving better ones for later) and will update the Serac page with them.I'm still working on some additional packages for the Serac and will post those o... | |
| Top turntables? Hello Thomasheisig,I find it very difficult to make these apples and oranges comparisons, although as each of us makes them, we learn a bit more and triangulate better on "ultimate truth", such as it were.The only high-mass arm I've run my DL-103R... | |
| What Makes a Good RIAA or Line Stage? Hi Ralph,Likely this best discussed (or put to rest) in the already heavily beaten to death thread on balanced inputs to phono stages - where you and Jim H. had an "enthusiastic" discussion - ultimately agreeing to disagree.Two of the main points ... | |
| What Makes a Good RIAA or Line Stage? Groovey one ...Yes, it goes without saying that halls, mikes (and miking techniques) can drastically alter the recorded sound for good or for ill.I was on the phone with a recording engineer today and we were waxing philosophically about how under... | |
| Leave tune powered up? Hi Larryi,I hope I didn't torture you with the safety issue. We have a couple of receivers for our satellite TV Dish network) and leave them on 24x7. They're so fragile (#$%! cheap), that even though we hook them up to surge protectors, we've had ... | |
| Variations of the Micro Seiki MA505 tonearm Hi Lewm,Yes, having azimuth adjustment (and certainly the user interface of a Triplanar) will ruin you for everything else.Cheers,Thom @ Galibier | |
| My Dynavector 10x5 sits too low on the record Yes, 3 business cards is a bit low, but if Valleyplastic responds that his 10X5 is 5 business cards off the deck, then I'd call this within the range of manufacturing tolerance and not worry - as long as you don't scrape and the cartridge sounds g... |