dougdeacon
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| Tranfiguration Orpheus description Mark,We're still striving but we are indeed blessed, not only with some good mainstream components (which anyone might choose) but mostly by a friend who makes rare and very special preamps and amps for remarkably affordable prices. We have not he... | |
| TriPlanar Tips Tip #9 (10?), stolen from my other thread and added here to help newbies find everything in one place:Remove the antiskate weight. It's too heavy and limits dynamics with most cartridges. Since the bare dogleg does not provide quite enough anti-sk... | |
| Tranfiguration Orpheus description I'd like to share my thoughts and Paul's.First, our thanks for Andrew's kind words about our system. We heard the things he described, with one exception, plus some things he did not mention. He is not an experienced classical music listener, so c... | |
| How much fine tuning required on cartridge loading Snake64,My apologies! I meant to recommend the Riken Ohms.We used the cheaper Kiwame's to hone in on optimal values, then bought Rikens (and others) to hone in on resistor type/brand.The Rikens were definitely the ultimate winners, for us. Sorry f... | |
| How much fine tuning required on cartridge loading To those experimenting with different resistor types, we tried seven or eight on our BentAudio Mu stepups. In our system, to our ears, Vishays and all other film resistors had one audible flaw. Because of their high surface area:volume ratio, very... | |
| Origin live Silver or VPI JMW-9 Signature A Hadcock will probably also prove too light for a Denon 103R. It's great that your dealer can let you compare arms but make sure you audition each arm with the same cartridge, or you're wasting your time. | |
| Tranfiguration Orpheus description Andrew visited us this evening and we had an enjoyable and instructive time, aided considerably by the fine wine and even finer single malt he brought with him. My thanks for that!SirSpeedy was correct to warn about VTF's below 1.90g. We heard the... | |
| Tranfiguration Orpheus description Neil, 52 and counting, rapidly. The hair's begun to grey but little of it has actually left me, yet. I just paid my stylist to barcode and GPS link each strand though, just to keep track. The digital revolution has come into its own - perfect hair... | |
| Tranfiguration Orpheus description Please make sure one of the judges is not paid off.A'la Don King styleDarn! I've already had my hair done.BTW, Cello (and Paul and I) had no problems with the UNIverse on his 2.2. The Airy 3 is the one that didn't like that arm. The UNIverse makes... | |
| Arm and MC transformer to match ZYX Air3 cartridge Stltrains,I own the (copper) TX103's (from Bent Audio). I also own an Alaap (similar to Dan_Ed's). The Alaap is clearly superior. Not a little superior, a lot.That said, the copper TX103's are well short of the best transformer's I've heard, and N... | |
| Compliance & Efffective Mass Question Dgad,So your Ikeda has an effective mass of ~33 grams? If so, it seems you have a very anomalous example of a UNIverse. Everything you heard is what we'd expect from a low compliance cartridge, as you probably know better than I do!I am still deal... | |
| Bad experience with ZYX AIRY 3 Ketchup,Adding weight at the headshell would make your horizontal eff. mass even higher. Doesn't seem like that's the right direction.Assuming a horizontal eff. mass of 25 and using the usual formula gives a caluclated horizontal resonance frequen... | |
| Anyone can tell me the cartridge shown here? Stylus = the part of the cartridge that actually rides inside the record groove Needle = used in sewing/tailoring to draw thread through fabric Good advice from Xiekitchen about having a dealer help you set up the table, arm and cartridge. Someone... | |
| Compliance & Efffective Mass Question Outlier,Tracks 6-9 on side 1 of the HFNRR record are not "tests" that need to be "passed". Neither are the three "tracking test" bands on side 2. Adjusting your rig in an attempt to play these tracks cleanly will invariably lead to an inferior set... | |
| Compliance & Efffective Mass Question Outlier,I'm not familiar with your arm so I'll mostly defer to the good posts others have made on that subject. Just one suggestion, get a copy of the HFNRR record and measure your resonance frequencies. If they're somewhere around 8-12Hz then you... |