wrm57
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| Developing A List Of Tonearm Candidates For A SOTA Turntable @neonknight Ah, I see. Is the grub screw adjusted with hex key? Using a ball-tipped hex key makes it easier with a recessed armboard, since you can insert it at an angle. My armboards are like that, and my Graham arms have a tiny grub screw to loc... | |
| Developing A List Of Tonearm Candidates For A SOTA Turntable @neonknight : Thank you for your comments on the Agile. Good to hear that you like it. Being one of those benighted users who still changes VTA for varying record thickness, I’m curious about your thoughts on the VTA adjuster. In practice, does th... | |
| Hot off the press...Technics SL 1300G Wow, that’s too bad. JP refurbished my EPA-100 in Feb, changing the bearings and wire and fixing the bias, among other things. It sounds wonderful. He did say he was going to close in April but I thought he meant for vacation. Now I feel extremely... | |
| Developing A List Of Tonearm Candidates For A SOTA Turntable @neonknight : I’m curious how things are going with your new Agile. Care to share? | |
| Step Up Transformers….Are they Worth the Trouble? (Herron being almost a tad aggressive in upper mids by comparison). @mulveling I found this to be true of the most recent Herron linestage, as well, which I bought and then returned. My main preamp is a VAC. | |
| Step Up Transformers….Are they Worth the Trouble? @lalitk : I’m with @lewm : the Etsuro Urushi SUT might be different but not necessarily better and quite possibly worse. It is 1:20, which your Allnic offers (along 1:26, which you might even prefer with a .25 mV cartridge at 3 ohms DCR). And your... | |
| Feel Silly Asking This Question Alignment Parameters On my arms it takes more than I expect to hit the numbers, and I typically back it off a touch. | |
| Feel Silly Asking This Question Alignment Parameters @lewm : Yes, WallySkator is just for anti-skate. It enables an easy setting to a requisite percentage of VTF, which JR, or perhaps Wally before him, established to be 11% for 9-inch arms, 9% for 12-inch. It does some other things, too, like measur... | |
| Feel Silly Asking This Question Alignment Parameters @mijostyn : agreed on the WallySkator. A must-have device. | |
| Feel Silly Asking This Question Alignment Parameters FWIW, I just now cross-checked the SmartTractor on a cartridge I recently installed with a WallyTractor and the Lofgren B alignments were identical. No change needed. This is extremely enheartening, given the SmartTractor’s superior ease of use. W... | |
| Feel Silly Asking This Question Alignment Parameters @rauliruegas : Good advice, for sure, to get a universal alignment protractor if you’ll be changing out arms. Just moments ago, in fact, I took delivery of a new SmartTractor. We’ll see how it goes. I’ve always had a preference for dedicated arc p... | |
| Feel Silly Asking This Question Alignment Parameters @lewm : Well said. | |
| Developing A List Of Tonearm Candidates For A SOTA Turntable @neonknight : Congrats! I’m excited to hear what you think. | |
| Step Up Transformers….Are they Worth the Trouble? @mulveling : I certainly respect your knowledge and your ears, and those of Kevin Hayes, too, having been a VAC man myself for a long time. But I have to disagree about the LL1931Ag. I recently picked up a last-gen K&K Maxxed Out with the silv... | |
| Audiomods Is A Great Company Great question, couldn’t tell you. All I can offer is experience. |