dougdeacon
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| Tranfiguration Orpheus description Mark,re: piccolosA few weeks ago Dan_Ed and his wife rendezvoused at my place with Nick Doshi. The occasion was the delivery of Dan's new preamp. (I invited you but you were busy in FL - and please accept my belated condolences. I only just notice... | |
| I've found the cd player for analog lovers Mmakshak,The most interesting info on this thread is that you "find volume really critical". You've said this several times.Needing to play at one very precise gain setting to avoid distortions or edginess is a symptom. The problem is usually some... | |
| Little red gun next to turntable. Really. I'm not recommending it, obviously, but if you want the thing I'll mail it. The first $5 gets it. That covers packing tape, postage, gas to the post office and a Dunkin' Donuts stop. No higher bids will be accepted! :-) It's had virtually ... | |
| Little red gun next to turntable. I've got both a Zerostat and a Mapleshade Ionoclast.Anybody want the Ionoclast? It might make a good taser but it's useless for dissipating static buildup on LP's. | |
| Setting anti-skate Old Dual gimbal arms? Hey, I had a 1218 and a 1229 also. We must be long lost brothers! Warjarret,Most of us do adjust azimuth (I hope). As SirSpeedy said, since there's only one ideal setting for any given cartridge it's pretty much set and forge... | |
| Setting anti-skate Eldartford and SirSpeedy,My TriPlanar sounds alot better than my linear tracking HK/Rabco arms. Does that vote count? ;-)I'm with Mark on the scale. I will defend my .01g VTF adjustments to the death! :-) | |
| Setting anti-skate ...we need to figure out a final step which ACCURATLY provides the real adjustment. Warjarret,I think you're engaging in antiskate overkill. As I said above, there is no such thing as a perfect antiskate setting. The very notion is impossible and ... | |
| Recommend alignment protractor That's the first time I've seen or heard of that VdH gauge. It looks excellent, and nicely compact too. I may pick one up just for ha-ha's. Thanks! | |
| Recommend alignment protractor TurntableBasics.com sells a good two-point Baerwald protractor for just $20. The mirrored surface makes it easy to see and correct small cantilever alignment errors.It would be nice if the TTB's alignment grids were scribed with thin lines rather ... | |
| Shelter and Triplanar matching ? Dan,I think it was a 2.0mm error, but your points are well taken. | |
| Shelter and Triplanar matching ? Ken,Sota has had compatibility issues with the TriPlanar on some lower model tables with wood plinths and recessed armboards, but there should be no issues on a Millenium, other than the goof you already discovered of course. Geoff Husband of TNT-... | |
| Where do I start? For a $1K budget you should definitely consider a used table and arm. They're plentiful enough on both A'gon and ebay, though in general I'd trust an A'gon seller more. Used cartridges are riskier business, so unless the table comes with one I'd g... | |
| Setting anti-skate Undertow,Please do what Nsgarch said, immediately. The cure for slippery cueing is learning to cue more carefully. Whether you cue by hand or with a cueing lever, the tonearm should not be released until the stylus has found a groove.Adjusting VTF... | |
| Setting anti-skate Rmaurin wrote:Why are the widely spaced tracks better?Because skating forces vary across the record. Measuring at just one place cannot account for this. Measuring on outer, middle and inner grooves lets you identify an AS setting that balances th... | |
| Setting anti-skate I have the HiFi News record. With minimum anti-skate, the cartridge, Helikon, goes through the frst 3 tracks with no buzzing. It does buzz in the right channel slightly during the last track with the highest modulation.Tracks 6-9 on side one of th... |