billstevenson
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| VPI 2nd Pivot for 3D I apologize for being absent for a few days. I live is South Florida and Irma has turned our lives upside down here. Anyway, without power and no air-conditioner it is difficult to get excited about turntables. I have no idea what you are tryin... | |
| VPI 2nd Pivot for 3D "I have a couple of questions that I would think be of concern to all VPI owners: @billstevenson, You may be positioned as our best form of information on these questions?(1) The factory off-set setting of S2P distance by 2mm on my Classic 3..... | |
| VPI 2nd Pivot for 3D With respect to the OP's experience with the VPI dual pivot modification, in case anyone missed it, I agree with him, have two VPI arms that are used interchangeably on my Prime and both have the dual pivot modification. It definitely is a worthw... | |
| VPI 2nd Pivot for 3D "Bill's facts/tests were not created to measures the stability in tonearms subject. So in this regards means nothing."I was going to let this go, but you have restated it and it is becoming obvious that you are ignorant of the scientific method. ... | |
| VPI 2nd Pivot for 3D Perhaps this post is a progression too far, but may I suggest that we agree that there is no one, single, absolute "right" way to do anything in audio. That is true for every aspect from tonearms, to amplifiers, to speakers, to wires...whatever. E... | |
| Phono preamp question I have to chime in with agreement, the GFP-565 phono pre-amp is quite good. Better in fact than anything I tried in the $500 range from the likes of Graham Slee, Creek, and the like. Among other things it has an extremely accurate RIAA equalizat... | |
| VPI 2nd Pivot for 3D Raul,I am having an extremely difficult time comprehending your message. Extracted from your last post is the following example:" Your " facts " about can’t prove that I’m wrong in my main " at micro levels unstability in any unipivot tonearm ". R... | |
| VPI 2nd Pivot for 3D This is a response to Raul's contention that there is a "problem" with unipivot tonearms. I am studiously trying to avoid the exchange about VPI and overhang. I had read all of Raul's posts, watched the You Tube video (actually I saw it several ... | |
| VPI 2nd Pivot for 3D Raul,The link you provided is for a sales pitch of the Mark Levinson/VPI turntable. Please send the link again. Thanks.Bill | |
| VPI 2nd Pivot for 3D With respect to the question concerning clamping, I have a Stillpoints LP1, which I use interchangeably on both my VPI Prime and on my SL1200GAE. It makes a difference sometimes, but not on every record. Generally records that are flat and 180 gr... | |
| Conrad Johnson TEA 1 phono preamp--versus TEA2SE- cj doesn't play games. Each step up in their line is going to make a difference. I have a TEA2MAX High Gain and use a Bob's SUT. The TEA2MAX sounded noticeably better to me than the TEA2SE. I have not heard a TEA1 yet, but feel confident that ... | |
| VPI 2nd Pivot for 3D I tried to follow this thread and went cross eyed. Maybe it is my limited intellect. All I know is that Springreen's original post is correct. What follows includes a lot of opinion based on limited or no experience with the product under discu... | |
| Conrad Johnson--does anyone use this brand anymore? I love my ET5, TEA2MAX, ARTsa, recently added a Bob's Devices SUT (SKY10) for an Ortofon Per Windfeld (0.3mV) mc cartridge. Just magic. CJ just pushes all my buttons: great sound, superb quality, great personal service if needed. There is nothi... | |
| Bobs SKY 30 (SUT) Yes I recently added a SKY 10 to my system (Conrad Johnson TEA2MAX, ET5, ART and Ortofon Per Windfeld) and could not agree more with you. | |
| Curved and Straight Tonearms It is a sad commentary upon the times when we can't sort out definitively the pluses and minuses of a mature technology like tonearms, but have no trouble at all getting a bead on the emanations Tweeting from the White House. Which is way off top... |