twl
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| How often do you demagnitize your MC cartridge? Marakanetz, yes of course there are magnets present in the cartridges. But they do not cause any permanent magnetization of the coils. They cause the coils to be energized by the movement in the field, and induce a current. But, when movement stop... | |
| Deciding Variables with Teres The OL modded arms that come modded from the OL factory should be well fitted and finished. Sometimes local dealers or end users do the mods, and this may be less ideal. Sometimes not. It could be a case-by-case basis. I do prefer the OL mod over ... | |
| driver moving too much The system is responding to subsonic frequencies. These can be generated by warps in records, turntable rumble, or mismatches in tonearm/cartridge combinations. Or it is possible that the system is not capable of reproducing certain low bass frequ... | |
| How often do you demagnitize your MC cartridge? Copper is not a magnetizable material. It cannot become magnetized. The coils in a cartridge are made of copper, usually very high purity. The magnetic action that acts on the copper coils is an inductive process that does not result in any "perma... | |
| Strange Tonearm Tweak. Long Jim, there would be no problems, as long as you don't make the mass of the counterweight so high as to not be able to move it close enough to the pivot to allow counterbalancing of the cartridge. The heavier you make the counterweight, the closer ... | |
| Deciding Variables with Teres I can help you with some of this. First, the 245 is an excellent table. I have a 245 myself, and while there are improvements to be had with the lead-loaded platter of the 255, or even the wood/lead platter of the 265, the 245 is very good soundin... | |
| Strange Tonearm Tweak. Long Jimbo, you can do what you are proposing, and it will improve the sound to some degree.The improvements, however, will come from the lowering of the center of gravity of the counterweight, and not from increasing the horizontal mass component of t... | |
| Tonearm/Cartridge compatibility I think that a resonance at about 8.7Hz is not bad. It is still within the acceptable range. I think that with a high mass arm, you would be better served with the Koetsu Onyx Platinum, which has a compliance of around 9cu, instead of the Lyra wit... | |
| Best arm for a Nottingham Spacedeck? Blcube, I'm happy that Ozzy62 has gotten a good result. I know that he had to go through a trial with the Shelter 501 and concluded that it didn't match his Borromeo arm well. The Benz is a much better match for a unipivot, and it obviously shows ... | |
| Japanese/Asian Speakers??? Certainly. There are a number of them. Quite often, you don't hear about them, because many are of the single-driver type, or horn type that is very popular in Japan. Probably the most common types that are known here are Fostex. They are used in ... | |
| Strange Tonearm Tweak. Long Zaikesman, yes I think that is possible. I have tried to build several tensegrity constructions, and they all have problems with rigidity. It seems that the wires that I used always had some amount of stretch to them, and this always resulted in f... | |
| Best arm for a Nottingham Spacedeck? Any of the OL arms will work well with a Spacedeck and a Dynavector 17D2. I use a Silver on my Teres and like it very much. | |
| A brzzzzz noise from transformer, is it normal? Many transformers will buzz slightly, and you might hear it with your ear next to them. I wouldn't worry about this. If the buzz becomes audible through the speakers, or is loud enough to hear from a couple feet away from the equipment, then the p... | |
| Audiopoints or Walker tuning kit under a turntable Inna, I place 3 AudioPoints directly under my plinth, which raises the normal feet of the TT off the stand, so that the Audiopoints are the only things supporting it. I still use my normal homemade stand under it. I felt that the AudioPoints sound... | |
| Athena ML-1 Polyphasor : Any idea what this does? Sounds like a similar idea to the modern TriPhazer. |