dougdeacon
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| Best of the Gliders, or? Markd51, Since you're obviously open to making a change, can you state what aspects of the Glider's sound you'd want to change or improve? What do you love about it? What do you find maybe a little lacking?Sharing what you like/dislike might lead ... | |
| "Glue Cleaning" Your LP's OTOH, while you're waiting 8-10 hours for the glue to dry, I've wet cleaned my copy (15-20 minutes), played it (1 hour), filed it (1 minute), lost it (instantaneous), looked for it (8 hours) and bought another copy on ebay!The question remains: wh... | |
| How to tell if lp is recorded with phase reversed? ... the difference is a sensation of "hollowness" , lack of dynamics and bass impact.That is what we hear/feel in our system too. A small handful of our (classical) LP's give that giant sucking feeling. Big impacts start by pulling air away from y... | |
| New Teres Direct Drive Motor Available as Option Johnbrown,Sorry your very interesting question got lost in the (fascinating) noise floor of that other discussion. Cocobolo is pretty durable of course. I imagine the O-ring will wear about 100 X faster. I'm certainly not worried about any short t... | |
| Record cleaner If you make one, we will buy! | |
| New Teres Direct Drive Motor Available as Option I was going to mention the hole in Pauly's economics, but Jtimothya and Cello beat me to it. Saving 1-2% via improved cash flow by paying 80-100% more to subsidize dealer and distributor inventories is no savings, and believing so is naive.Our ban... | |
| New Teres Direct Drive Motor Available as Option Kostas 1,I may have gotten the model name wrong, but it was the one with three motors. If that's the Maximum Solution, I apologize for the confusion.I haven't heard this rig myself, the owner doesn't live near me. But he sent photos and we traded ... | |
| New Teres Direct Drive Motor Available as Option Emailists,The Verus was designed for and tested on tables with platters ranging from 25 lb. (the 265) to 35 lb. (my 320) to 70 lb. (Cello's 360). A 20 lb. platter will present no problems. According to emails from Chris, the performance jump vs. b... | |
| New Teres Direct Drive Motor Available as Option Dgarretson,Using a thread drive is a challenge, for just the reason you stated. I've tried it with Teres motors (which also have small diameter pulleys) and could not prevent audible slippage. A larger diameter pulley that provided more surface ar... | |
| New Teres Direct Drive Motor Available as Option Willster raises some interesting questions. Chris has already discussed the DIY comment, which no longer applies to a Teres. Here's my take on some of his other points/questions. Chris would never maintain his judgement is infallible, but his desi... | |
| What's the limit for cart upgrade/VPI Scout? Kudo's for a most upfront response from Jcarr (not that I'm surprised). Some might have remained silent. Others might have made some effort toward encouraging a sale of their top model. Instead he voluntarily stepped in to say, in effect, "Not yet... | |
| Reissue 180 grms vs original issue Agree with Dopogue. Every Speakers Corner/Decca I own is an honest piece of work. Quieter surfaces, wider dynamics than the original, no screwing around with frequency balance like Classic Records so often does. Speakers Corner seems to cut the ki... | |
| What's the limit for cart upgrade/VPI Scout? This topic has been discussed (in general) many times. As a rule, the optimal upgrade order for a vinyl playback chain is: table and phono stage first, tonearm second, cartridge a more distant third. Doing things in this order will typically give ... | |
| Lubricate track of straight line tracking tone arm Strongly agree with Rwwear. Straight line trackers and conventional pivoting arms both rely on finely machined finishes to reduce bearing friction, not lubricants. Anything that leaves a residue on your arm's track will lead to problems, which rul... | |
| RB300 binding in horizontal movement Some possible causes that come to mind:Tonearm wire dressingCheck that the wire leading from the arm is not kinked or catching on anything.Antiskate mechanism malfunctioningTry moving the A/S adjustment back and forth through its full range a bunc... |