tonywinsc
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| Do wooden arms warp The pseudo-intellectuals on this thread crack me up. A person with an analytical mind asks a question and gets attacked for asking the question; but no one offers any answers. Even better, someone like Mr. V can make non-sensical, ludicrous statem... | |
| Do wooden arms warp Hey, I wasn't trying to slam wooden tonearms. I was just asking questions. I have no experience with them so I was curious about any downsides to wooden arms. No one seems willing or able to answer my questions so I did a little research on wood. ... | |
| Do wooden arms warp Hmm. Applying the Liberal strategy: When lacking facts and data deflect with personal attacks. Let me ask another question then. If wood is neutral then why are musical instruments made of wood? Different woods give instruments their character, no? | |
| Do wooden arms warp Mr V. So you admit your tonearms are plastic with a wood look. Just as I surmised. How else to maintain dimensional stability? It was never about temperature, our turntables sit indoors. At least mine does. The challenge with wood is changes in hu... | |
| Do wooden arms warp I know. That's what I was saying. The wood can be coated with varnishes or other polymeric compounds to make it more dimensionally stable but then is it still really wood or is it a polymeric construction with a wood look?And I was not generalizin... | |
| Do wooden arms warp Not a problem. I rough in my set up with my eyes and then fine tune with my ears. | |
| Do wooden arms warp We talk a lot about positioning of the stylus in the record groove with utmost precision and accuracy- as in microns. It's hard to imagine a wooden tone arm holding a set up for more than a few hours. Maybe it can be more dimensionally stable if i... | |
| Would vinyl even be invented today? Didn't Al Gore invent the LP? | |
| Would vinyl even be invented today? Imagine a stylus rigged with cables tied directly to speaker cones through a system of levers and pulleys. No electronics to color the sound. Then we would have discussions about the advantages of different cable sizes, tension and materials and t... | |
| ARC Quality Issues Ref75 Ref5SE Ref10 I have had ARC gear since 1989. Well, I have had three different preamps the DAC3 and CD3- so not so many changes. The umbilical cord on my SP-15 failed in 2004. ARC repaired the cord and refurbished the power supply for me while they had it. Kind... | |
| Would vinyl even be invented today? A mechanical means of recording sound vibrations was bound to happen eventually in history. Who knows? Perhaps past civilizations discovered a way to record vibrations but the technology was lost. Vacuum tubes were an extension of the light bulb. ... | |
| Power Filtering vs Power Regeneration? That's a 4% total variation in voltage. I'd say its a big deal. I would expect less than 1%. Now, that's considering that the load in your house is constant. If something in your house is turning on/off when you see those voltage swings then it mi... | |
| Power Filtering vs Power Regeneration? RFI is what I was thinking about when asking about the grounding. Poor grounding could allow RFI to muddy things up. Also, I was recalling that in the 80s a buddy of mine had some old (50s vintage) tube mono amps. I remembering him remarking that ... | |
| Power Filtering vs Power Regeneration? I didn't realize that you were down in Sydney. Don't the records want to spin counter clockwise there? 😊 | |
| Power Filtering vs Power Regeneration? I asked that wondering if it is possibly related to grounding. Ground rods deteriorate in some regions and also arid ground (dirt) can be less conductive vs. moist ground (dirt). And another thing with tube gear, humidity can sometimes affect the ... |