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| Advise on TT Support Platform As noromance says, I would go in the crawl space and install a few adjustable height screw jacks from Home Depot and your floor will never move again. Probably cost less than $100.00 and should be installed in about 30 minutes. | |
| Turntables hit the mainstream Shinola is a good sized company with over 120 employees, run by the former Fossil watch people, and an American gift to Detroit working people decimated by the car industry. They are the best!BTW, as a watch collector I have not worn my watches a... | |
| VPI Prime noise issue solved (wasn't the Prime's fault:) These things happen, I have been diagnosing crazy problems for almost 40 years and you would not believe what can cause noise in a system. I remember one guy who had a hum and no matter what we did it would not go away, he moved his table 15" and... | |
| Soundsmith Zephyr MkIII, Boheme on VPI Classic 2 Companion I use the gimbal arm with the Sound-Smith Mimic Star and it is a perfect match, resonance of 10 Hz.. I have used the Zephyr on it and it was perfect also but the resonance was 12 Hz, still not an issue. Have not used your two choices. | |
| Update on VPI Prime noise issues Shielded cables can mean anything, run a ground wire from the back of the junction box to your phono section, I do that with every cable that does not have pig tails on both ends.You leave out the most important item, the cartridge!!Make sure you ... | |
| VPI Traveler - nickel on the headshell worked wonders! The only reason you would need that nickel is if the temperature in the room is below 68 degrees. The compliance of the cartridge goes down and the nickel will compensate for the higher resonance frequency caused by the lower temp.Physics guys!HW | |
| Need help and advice on a VPI 3D arm We now have 3200 3D arms made and shipped with a twisting rate of roughly 1% (almost all in the first year) so Mr. dgarretson you have no clue what you are talking about.When you deal with new technology, in areas never used before, you will alway... | |
| Class "A" phono cartridge discussion. The ART-9 is an excellent cartridge with very solid separation numbers and a very stable soundstage. Fast, clean, very good sound. The problem is for any Class A recommendation the cartridge compliance and mass has to match the arms effective ma... | |
| Need help and advice on a VPI 3D arm I personally have 10 3D arms in all lengths and will tell you the armtube has a 1/4" copper tube running through it so it cannot bent or twist. The headshell is the only part that can bend when confronted with heat, cold, or sun. Under normal co... | |
| What cartridge on your VPI prime? Just add this into the equation, the arm was designed and tested using an Ortofon Quintet Black plus many others. The Q Black is a perfect combination, just let it break in and warm up and you will love it. If you like rich and full and powerful... | |
| Tonearm recommendation Look, this thread has become ridiculously long over what is in reality a very simple subject.Having both the 66 and the Jelco (and 26 other tonearms that are not VPI's)and way more than 71 cartridges I can say that the 66 is better in so many ways... | |
| Tonearm recommendation Great discussion, full of passion and some interesting information.I just built a 3D gimbaled arm with enough mass to work perfectly with the Tsar, a cartridge of such low compliance it is almost ridiculous!! The great thing about 3D printing arm... | |
| It's Back - Technics SL-1200 MKGAE Harry is not worried!When it is out it has to beat a Scout JR with the same cartridge for me to get excited. I'm using a Scout JR in my big system right now with an Ortofon 2M Red (Roughly $1500 retail for both) and it really sounds amazing!!!In ... | |
| Victor TT 101 vs TT 81 Dear Lewm,I have a guy but we are so busy making, upgrading, and repairing our stuff (400,000 customers) the days just run away before we can do anything but what we need done.I have another possibility that I will check out this week, he is very ... | |
| Tonearms longer than 12 inches A 12" arm with its shallower arc is like a linear tracking arm that is set up wrong, it is wrong over larger parts of its travel then a shorter arm. I don't hear the difference the math claims but I do a very precise setup.My 12" 3D arms when set... |