wlutke
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| Advice On The Mint Tractor Follow the included instructions.I find a 16x loop necessary to see the tip of the stylus contact point. The stylus must sit exactly in the target cross for any measurement.Patience.Persistence - "good enough" is not good enough.When the cantileve... | |
| Just Pulled The Trigger Opinions and preconceptions will not change the outcome. Your system, room and ear will determine that. I listen too critically to new gear and always find things don't meet expectations at first. I'm stressed over the possibility of buyers remors... | |
| A source for maple blocks http://www.timbernation.com/tigermaple.cfm | |
| Refined integrated for extremely neutral speakers? Seems natural that a pre-solid state speaker would want tube amplification. It was designed for it. | |
| Upgrade Tonearm for VPI Aries 3 Abill,On the VTF - no the extra .05 on the VTF doesn't audibly affect the tracking on my set-up. Within the range of the cart, the consensus seems to be that more VTF actually makes the cart track better. In my experience, mistracking is better cu... | |
| Upgrade Tonearm for VPI Aries 3 Abill,I understand. You may have guessed that I have recently, over the last year actually, added the XX2 and fought with the set-up of the arm to accommodate it. If you can improve the sound by getting the damping fluid correct then by all means ... | |
| Upgrade Tonearm for VPI Aries 3 Be careful with the damping fluid. True, removing most of it will liven things up but, at least on my arm, it also affected the treble. Noticeably the sound of cymbals became harsh. I filled the cup until the arm just contacted the fluid and it wa... | |
| Upgrade Tonearm for VPI Aries 3 My XX2 has close to 200 hours on it now. I have found setting the VTF at 2.0 and the loading at 100 Ohms to be helpful. Sometimes on the same album the sibilance can be fine on some tracks and exaggerated on others, regardless of the tracks locati... | |
| Upgrade Tonearm for VPI Aries 3 You have a unipivot tonearm that changes azimuth and VTF. A loose counterweight could do that but yours is ok. Does your arm clear the lift when playing? Are the tonearm wires binding between the arm and the connection block? Is the anti-skate ok?... | |
| Upgrade Tonearm for VPI Aries 3 I have and old HW19 MK4 with the original JMW Memorial 10 arm and DV XX2 MK2. And was unimpressed. The same thoughts as yours went through my mind. I used the Mint LP tractor, digital scale, loading, VTA, phono pre - you name it. In the end I trie... | |
| Installing a stereo in my garage. Suggestions? My garage has full range single driver kits (BK-16) from the Madisound website powered by SET amps. The sound is incredible. They also have plans for speaker enclosures if you've got the room. With all the inexpensive tube amps these days $500 cou... | |
| Internet Radio I use a Sangean WFT-1 and it works well. About $250 on Amazon. Bill | |
| lemon on on vandersteens I use Guardsman furniture polish on my Vandersteens. It's an oil based aerosol that wipes dry and works super on any finish I've tried. Beds Bath and Beyond has it in my neighborhood.Bill | |
| VPI PLC question The PLC must be started in at 33 rpm and switched to 45 on the fly. The motor doesn't have the torque to ramp up to 45 from a dead stop. The motor will just quiver.Bill | |
| Best interconnects & speaker cable? I don't get it For years I couldn't tell the difference between wire - until I sorted out the rest of the system. That includes the room, vibration, recordings, system quality and system synergy. Once everything got working, cables had a much bigger impact. Some... |