yeti42
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| Need help to select a speaker If auditioning is possible add Proac Tablet Signatures to your list and possibly Audionote UK too for their evolved Snell designs, probably the K or J but these are meant to be used in corners, or at least with a wall in close proximity to their b... | |
| How to choose an upgraded tonearm. I would wait and fit the Kleos to the current arm but do use antiskate, VPI are wrong about that. Lyra specify a VTF that aligns the coil optimally in the field of their magnet system but if the coil is displaced laterally by the wrong or no antis... | |
| Decided to try a SPU cartridge Should you baulk at the rigid float a Schröder CB would be an excellent choice for an SPU N series, just make sure you order one with enough mass, somewhere around 20g or more with the brass mounting plate and order any fine adjustment options ava... | |
| Replace inner sleeves on used records? Only if you care about resale value but if you do want to keep them then the Nagaoka liners make a decent alternative to the complete inner sleeves of MoFi and Goldring and will fit inside the sort of original liners that have lyrics or pictures o... | |
| How many turntables have you owned? 5 Gerrard sp25 mk? but it was belt drive with built in amp, piezo cartridge and crap. -Trashed. Micro Seiki DD24S, entry level direct drive with solid plinth and light weight arm arm. - Trashed Manticore Mantra with Rega RB300 with Goldring Ero... | |
| Flag Doohickey to Indicate Status of Tonearm Lever @mijostyn , thank you but my current cartridge, SPU Royal N, sounds best when the screw securing the plate to the wand is just tight enough to hold it’s position!, less than 2Ncm if I can believe my torque driver, which I don’t at that level. The ... | |
| Flag Doohickey to Indicate Status of Tonearm Lever For years I used an arm that didn’t have a cuing lever. There is a rod on a post to rest it on when not on a record. At one point I bought an aftermarket cuing lever for it and it worked OK but did have a slight effect on sound quality and by then... | |
| German Physiks - Listening Impressions Wanted I heard Duevel Bella Luna Diamantés recently in Paris (hifi-video) but just in the main shop as I hadn’t booked a demo. The amplification was on the cheap side (1/10th cost of the speakers and it showed with a rather hard sound but they did show p... | |
| High end cartridge I’m running an SPU Royal N and getting wonderful results but it taken a lot of very fine adjustment to get there. It always has a full bodied sound but except for a very fine rage of VTA and VTF (~3g) gives a somewhat measured pace to the music, g... | |
| Systems over $100k I worked out the replacement cost when I insured it to move from the UK to France at around €120k, there was some doubt as the speakers haven’t been made for 15 years and the turntable maker is no longer in existence. Only a speaker change is unde... | |
| dumb down an LP-12 Cynbiosis, a Linn specialist in the UK make an LP12 set up guide available on their web site. If you’re going solo on an LP12 it might come in handy. Not sure if this link will work but if it doesn’t finding their downloads page isn’t too hard. ... | |
| I'm confused - Different music...different speakers? One thing I noticed is over tightening the cartridge bolts can take the life out of rock music, what I don’t know is if this is specific to my arm and cartridge but it’s easy to try the cartridge bolts just tight enough to hold it in alignment and... | |
| Replicant 100 stylus To try and take it back to the subject, has anyone done a vertical comparison of cartridges equipped with a Replicant 100? I have the SPU on my Schröder, I’ve heard a Cadenza Bronze on a Naim Aro fitted to a Linn LP12 and an Anna boron on an SME ... | |
| Ortofon SPU dealers in the US? Not in the US, I was in England and now France. When I ordered an SPU Royal N originally I was told a three month wait. I think this was a guess on the dealer’s part as it arrived in two. I think they’re made in batches and are quite slow sellers ... | |
| The sound of SPU A couple of years ago my Transfiguration Proteus was starting to give a but more sibilance than I was used to. While I looked for someone to rebuild it I bought an SPU Royal N as a stopgap. My arm is a Schröder Reference so I can add 5g to the eff... |