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| Turn table speed variation question Small correction: 5.2 minutes of playing time is 173 revolutions. You dropped the "1". :)Keep in mind that closed loop speed control systems like used in DD turntables will compensate for changes in load (such as dropping a needle on a record or r... | |
| Turntable speed accuracy Hi Peter,Sorry for the confusion this morning. I was rushing because we were preparing to go to a wedding. I was excited to see your post and wanted to reply before we left and my wife was bugging me to get off the computer and get ready to go.The... | |
| Turntable speed accuracy Hi Peter,I updated my calculations and also found an error. My previous calcs were off by 100 because I had calculated a % and then used that for an absolute. The correct numbers now with your measurements are speed is fast by 0.003%. The 5.2 minu... | |
| Turntable speed accuracy Hi Peter,Excellent. First, that is a really long tonearm. I'm not envious, just impressed. I noticed just a slight amount of drift over the 5.2 minutes of the song. It appears the speed is just a little fast by about 1.6%. I estimated that the lin... | |
| Turn table speed variation question Well, since someone brought up the timeline again... For sure DD turntable owners like to brag about how stable the laser line stays on the wall even when dropping a tonearm or two on the record. DD tables have closed loop speed control systems. S... | |
| What is Imaging? Hi Bo, one thing that I have noticed over the years with MIT cables is that they need 5-10 hours of run in time after being manipulated. They will sound rather flat and dull for a while and then the sound will pop back to normal. Would you be able... | |
| What is Imaging? Here are some observations that I have made over the years regarding imaging. When my son was in the Chorale in college we went to various concerts from small intimate settings (piano and singer) to the full orchestra and Chorale inside big church... | |
| Your Favorite AC Outlets It is always good to understand how something works but it is not a requirement to take advantage of the results. The benefit of understanding is to be able to create a system model and optimize for best results without so much trial and error. I'... | |
| Best Class A amp with SLAM Thanks Bo for the clarification and interesting comments. I don't want to hijack this thread into a cable discussion. Er, well maybe too late... | |
| Best Class A amp with SLAM Bo, what you just said makes sense to me now. I listen mostly to Jazz and Rock. I listen to some classical, like chamber music; but rarely full orchestral pieces. When I had my son stand and count and sing, he was 14' away from my listening positi... | |
| Best Class A amp with SLAM Bo, I read your post about the best cables to use and the size of images they generate with Pass amps. If I am understanding your post correctly, then you are talking about bloated images. I use MIT cables exclusively throughout my system, from po... | |
| What Preamp to replace ARC sp-9 mkIII I had a SP-9MKI for a short time and then moved into the ARC SP-15. I have been very pleased with the SP-15; especially since I put NOS Tubes in the phono section. The NOS tubes not only sound better, much better, but they also last much longer. I... | |
| Record clamps: do they really make a difference. Hi Lewm, I have been using the Sota reflex clamp religously for 21 years now. I think that for me to play a record without it now would be almost as hard for me as walking naked in public. (btw- I hate those dreams). I believe in it for the reason... | |
| Record clamps: do they really make a difference. The record clamp better couples the vinyl disc to the platter. If the turntable has a bad or noisy bearing, and/or is not well isolated, then expect the sound to be worse with the clamp. All of the external vibrations are going to be efficiently t... | |
| Telarc 1812 revisited Hi Raul,20 years from now, maybe you and I will still be playing our copies of the 1812 Overture and maybe a couple of kids that are just being born today will have gotten the vinyl bug and will be playing it too. There is something to be said to ... |