yeti42
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| compliance What you’ve missed is the other extreme in your comparison, high mass and low compliance.They’re not renowned for tracking either, and using the hifi news and record review test disk my SPU Royal N tracking at ~3g on an arm of eff mass ~19g distor... | |
| Is It Time To Sell My Vinyl Rig? Sell the rig if you have to but keep the records. | |
| Help me understand compliance! Korf Audio have an interesting take on it, there ae 4 blog posts and a handy calculator.http://korfaudio.com/blog67Using the Ortofon calculations my 18g Schröder with an SPU Royal N should resonate at around 10Hz, on a HFN test record it actually ... | |
| If you don't have a wide sweet spot, are you really an audiophile? I used the Sumiko Masterset method with some small Thiels (CS1.6) and got a very wide sweet spot, even beyond the width of the speakers. It’s useless for the Naim NBLs I use at the moment as they’re designed for back against the wall placement, 5.... | |
| Looking to buy a power conditioner What amp and source do you have, I see you’ve asked about amps and a few cables but there’s no clue what they’re to work with apart from the Focals.If you went for the supernait give the power conditioner a miss. | |
| Ortofon SPU-ish sounding cartridge for medium mass tonearms And here Read about EMT https://medialux.blog/2020/03/21/emt-jsd5-mission-impossible/There’s also a run through of SPUs in the first couple of posts.I bought a Royal N on the back of them. | |
| Had an epiphany, what would happen when all of you die? My wife likes the music but will have no hope of setting up a Schröder or even an Aro. She does at least know this and what I paid for them so will probably contact a local dealer to either dispose of them and my LPs or do a deal on something more... | |
| Audible wow on Well Tempered TT I don’t know the WT decks from back then. What is the belt made of, I assume it’s not like the current WT decks’.I had a similar problem with a Townshend Rock Mk2, which uses a round rubber belt, basically a 1/16” cross section O ring. After fitti... | |
| Best settings for my first MC cart Gain to 60 but experiment with impedance, though if noromance has the same phonostage as you he might be on the money. On another phonostage the XX2 mk2 likes around 450Ω. If you set too low bass gets a bit flabby, too high and its tight but light... | |
| Loud thud heard through speakers I noticed yesterday a thud through the speakers when I turned the electric oven off in the kitchen, which is around 8m from the turntable. No record was playing at the time but the MC phonostage was selected and I’d left the volume turned quite hi... | |
| Ok to adjust balance to achieve center vocal image? Are the cantilever and stylus still straight? I had a 17d2 do this after using it for rather too long and probably will poorly adjusted bias. The cantilever was pointing a bit off straight ahead and had twisted in its damper. You can’t bend a diam... | |
| what are some of best tonearms you own or experience with. Schröder Reference but with the neutral balance bearing geometry and all the fine adjustment options used on the SQ. It needs them too and a sensitive touch on the various locking screws. The music can come alive but the sweet spot is pretty narro... | |
| Best Digital Music Server Oh and the Core only rips to FLAC or WAV the latter using a proprietary linked database for metadata. You have to choose, WAV has slightly better sound, FLAC is more portable, the Core doesn’t transcode. There have been a few firmware updates sinc... | |
| Best Digital Music Server I use a Naim Uniti Core, I don’t have the patience to rip a couple of thousand CDs with EAC or DBpoweramp, I’ve one disc the Core refused that ripped on EAC but with errors. With the Naim app the Core won’t solve the unknown albums problem but it’... | |
| Review of the SMARTractor and SMARTstylus I bought a Smartractor a year or so ago, I already had a Feickert but the Smartractor was worth the extra.The pivot pin is a bit on the loose side in the plastic sleeve on mine and you have to use rather too much force on the screw to secure it at... |