dougdeacon
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| Is it worth this tonearm? Peter,Good move on the tonearm. If you haven't already, search for the thread titled "TriPlanar Tips". There are many fine-tuning tweaks and even one or two safe usage tips that aren't mentioned in the manual. Most of them are discussed there. The... | |
| New Teres Direct Drive Motor Available as Option A birdy recently chirped about suppliers who miss deadlines, and suggested the monkey watch his mailbox in late July. | |
| Is it worth this tonearm? Peter,You've already gotten many insightful responses. I do know one UNIverse owner who upgraded from DP-6 to TriPlanar. He was frankly astonished by the improvement wrought by the TriPlanar. My experience with the Atmos suggests it is worth havin... | |
| Review: ZYX Atmos X-SB (low output) Cartridge Dgad,Good question. I was once told there was a re-tipping/rebuilding service... | |
| Moving coil transfprmer? It is quite important to get a good SUT, but equally important to get one that synergizes well with the cartridge. A stepup that sounds great with one cartridge may not sound nearly so good with another, even after very careful impedance adjustmen... | |
| Static on Vinyl Socaoaste,Since the wood platter won't conduct static away from the record, I doubt using a conductive belt with a path to ground from the motor would make much difference. You'd also have to change the motor capstan from the existing material to ... | |
| Phono stage for Benz Wood H2 Abruceaudino,The function of gain in a phono stage is to boost the voltage level of a cartridge's signal up to a level your line stage can handle.Line stages are designed for components with outputs in the 300mV range (more or less), as is typical... | |
| Static on Vinyl I had zero luck with my Mapleshade Ionoclast. A Zerostat works much better for me.Contributing to the problem is that a cocobolo platter (both yours and mine) makes a poor conductor. Static buildup from stylus/groove friction has no easy evacuatio... | |
| Excellent turntables with threaded spindles ? Opus88,IME a center weight or clamp won't do much for a bad pinch warp. Dish warps can often be flattened, even when playing the concave side, but pinch warps require a vacuum platter or periphery ring. In truth, if one's arm and cartridge are rea... | |
| Excellent turntables with threaded spindles ? Edle,You raise a valid point, but as usual it's all about implementation. The design and build quality of the bearing will have a major impact on the costs vs. benefits of a screw-on clamp.On my old HK/Rabco ST-7, bearing noise and intra-plinth vi... | |
| New TT ideas please Piedpiper,Great question, which I've asked myself many times. Wish I had a good answer. I was hoping someone would come up with one!Geoff Husband's theory is one possiblility. He believes tiny VTA/SRA changes are audible due to specific resonance ... | |
| Strange Tonearm Tweak. Long IME with the HIFI mod on an OL Silver, the sonic improvements were entirely consistent with an increase in lateral moment of inertia. Bigger dynamics, stronger, tighter bass, faster transient response, etc.I do not recall much if any improvement i... | |
| Record Care Question If I put my record collection on wood shelves during a heat wave, will it expand my collection?Theresa might want to do the opposite. She has too many. | |
| New TT ideas please Thom,You mentioned that your listening group found that "too much" torque in the motor-platter coupling made the sound harsh. Chris's group has reported similar findings.In our torque experiments (8 or 10 different drive belts, of which the famili... | |
| New TT ideas please Terry,No offense taken. My request to leave Michael Moore out of this should not have been included in a response to you. Sorry if that confused things.I haven't heard a Scheu, just its larger and more capable derivatives (Teres/Galibier/Redpoint)... |