twl
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| Problems getting the best out of my Berning You need to get some NOS tubes. I have a MicroZOTL and I had the same problem with tube glare. The manufacturers cannot use NOS tubes in a production unit, because there is no guarantee of availability of the right tubes at any given time, and the... | |
| Audiogoners Anonymous? I've got it bad. I need a 12 step program, but I am in denial. I just bought another DL103R cartridge, as a spare. And the one I already have only has 100 hours on it. I press the refresh button every few minutes to see if another new forum post a... | |
| Using a tube amp with a Solid State preamp It depends on what kind of speakers you are going to use. If you have some kind of speaker that is not going to be tube friendly, like dropping under 4 ohms, then you will gain better stability, bass damping, and slam with the SS amp. If your spea... | |
| Strange Tonearm Tweak. Long Well Basement, that sounds like the yoke, which would be the piece that holds the suspension donut.About reproducing the warp, if the cartridge is held properly in place, and is doing what it is supposed to do, it will reproduce anything that exci... | |
| Strange Tonearm Tweak. Long Yes, Basement I am beginning to get your drift. The stylus/cantilever must move in order for a signal to be generated. Simply having the cantilever out of line, doesn't necessarily generate a signal. But if it is out of line, then when a signal is... | |
| Help Total Confusion I have my equipment between my speakers, set back about 2 feet, and I have put a DIY Argent room lens, centered between the speakers, just a few inches in front of the equipment, as Elgordo says, and my soundstage and image focus is awesome. I als... | |
| Strange Tonearm Tweak. Long Yes, there is a difference in cantilver speed, depending on the frequency of the "bumps" in the groove that it is trying to trace. Larger amplitude bumps, in the lower frequencies, require faster velocity than the smaller "bumps" in the high frequ... | |
| 17 year old B&O MMC3 cartridge I would consider it prudent, if you plan to keep that TT to get another MMC Series cartridge, as a spare, if nothing else. I believe that they are out of production, and getting hard to find. | |
| Strange Tonearm Tweak. Long Basement, first, if you would like a set of these weights for your RB300, email me. They should make an improvment on the Clavis. That is not a "whippy" cartridge, and the cantilver/suspension should be quite stiff. These weights are easy to apply... | |
| Why low sensitivity speakers? IMO, of all the available cone materials, paper is still the best. | |
| Strange Tonearm Tweak. Long KAB is a pretty cool site. That fluid damper rig looks like it will work fine, and it looks real "factory" like. Very clean and professional. It seems to me that they are primarily promoting a vertical damping, but it appears from the photo that t... | |
| Long wall vs, short wall I may be in the minority, on this, but I have always liked to put the speakers on the short wall, firing down the length of the room. That is the way my system is now, and I like it very much. If you control the first reflection zones, I see nothi... | |
| Strange Tonearm Tweak. Long Basement, I wish my eyes were as good as yours. Now that I'm over 45, I can't see up close anymore.About the off-center records, I don't really see this as a problem, because the mass increase is easily moved during the long arc of an off-center r... | |
| Strange Tonearm Tweak. Long Thanks, Zaikesman. I agree that with the low bearing friction, there may be some movement allowed with the mass system. I cannot say that absolutely no lateral movement is present over the groove. But I can definitely say that it is much reduced, ... | |
| Strange Tonearm Tweak. Long Ok, we have a couple of suppositions here, and I will try to address them as I see them.First, it seems we all agree that the headshell/arm should position the cartridge directly centered over the groove, and should maintain that position as it pl... |