twl
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| Why Does A Concrete Floor/Spiked Metal Rack... All forms of energy seek the ground state via the fastest route possible. Vibrational energy WILL seek ground, and it CAN be transferred there. Some vibrations CAN be dissipated as heat in certain materials, but that is definitely NOT the only way... | |
| Cable elevators Steve, the Sistrum cable elevator system was designed to provide a path for unwanted vibrations to rapidly move to mechanical earth ground. All Sistrum products are designed and built with this goal in mind. They incorporate structural geometry, m... | |
| People who are Irrationally Afraid of tube amps I agree. They are a long way from tubes. Just providing the link that Sean requested. | |
| Akiva vs. Lyre Helicon or Titan Could be a number of things. Could be impedance loading, could be VTA adjustment, VTF adjustment, could be variation of recordings.I'd try some alternative settings on your present cartridge, before resorting to another purchase. | |
| People who are Irrationally Afraid of tube amps Sean, here's the link to the audiocircle discussion on the digital amps.http://audiocircle.com/circles/viewtopic.php?t=5123There's about 9 pages of discussion on the apparent poor measurements and good sound reports from it. John Curl and Brian Ch... | |
| Cartridge for Rega planar 2 The 1042 is actually better than the Eroica. Not just my opinion. Check the reviews by TNT, and others about the comparisons between the 1042 and the Goldring MC cartridges. Goldring has been making very fine MM cartridges for years, and that is t... | |
| Enough Gain? I wouldn't do it. Use MM. Get a Goldring 1012GX. | |
| People who are Irrationally Afraid of tube amps Kana813, that is an interesting discussion going on over there at audiocircle. | |
| Cartridge for Rega planar 2 Well, you caught me. I thought the DL160 was an MM cartridge, but it is a high output MC. Since your dealer seems to think the Nait 3 will take the high output MC cartridges, and 2juki has the Dynavector for $215, I think that is a good choice. Th... | |
| Cartridge for Rega planar 2 I could recommend that you drop down to the lower Goldring models like the 1022 or 1012GX. They all use the same motor assembly, and the only difference are the styli. You could upgrade to the 1042 later, simply by replacing the stylus assembly, w... | |
| People who are Irrationally Afraid of tube amps Okay. I didn't say that they were for everyone. | |
| People who are Irrationally Afraid of tube amps The specs you quoted are from the Berning website, and are the typical David Berning conservative type specs, which he always shows "worst case" types of figures. The distortion figures are at clipping for that amp. It is stated that the figures a... | |
| Cable elevators Vibration definitely affects cables too. A properly designed elevator system will help the vibrations to go to mechanical earth ground. Unfortunately, about 99% of these elevator systems aren't properly designed, and apparently the designers think... | |
| People who are Irrationally Afraid of tube amps Some people just will never get it.Why don't you bring your old Stromberg Carlson over to Mr. Berning's place and have a comparative listening session. Or for that matter, bring your currently used amp over there. After you pick your jaw up off th... | |
| Cartridge for Rega planar 2 Try a Goldring 1042. It is an MM cartridge and will be good with your phono preamp.The belt replacement can be done by a child. About 30 seconds time. As far as a "general tighening up", there's not much to tighten up on a Planar 2. Just don't mak... |