dougdeacon
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| How to set SRA after determining true vertical? If all the cutting engineers had been that meticulous, we could almost set and forget! | |
| Ideas for a cartridge for a Breuer 8A tonearm Dgad,IIRC, the newest Breuer (8A) has a reshaped headshell that accommodates more cartridges. I belive those pesky fins are no longer in the way.Doug | |
| Does size really matter? :- David,I only know that all four photos were taken by a professional photographer and that his email said they were at 200x. He sent them to me as a single image specifically so I could appreciate the visual comparison.The Denon, Shelter and ZYX ar... | |
| Does size really matter? :- Armstrod wrote:Maybe I lack imagination, but I'm having a hard time picturing the shape of the Zyx stylus you describe. Any chance you could upload the pictures your friend took of the Zyx and the others? It would be educational for all of us.Sorr... | |
| Does size really matter? :- Are there any other cartridges you know of, affordable or not, that use a stylus as small as the Zyx? The Lyra Olympos (discontinued) stylus was longer but it looked similarly narrow to my naked eye, but I never saw the specs. Current top Lyra's l... | |
| Does size really matter? :- The differences in size are truly astounding, especially if you compare them under magnification. A friend once photographed four styli at 200x and printed them out for me. IIRC it was a Grado (forget the model), a Denon 103, a Shelter 901 and a Z... | |
| Schroder: Model 2 or DPS? Hey...someone just told me that the DPS Schroder arm can only go on a DPS turntable. Is that a fact??? "Someone" has been smokin' the funny stuff again!Any Schroeder arm can go on virtually any table. | |
| Shelter and Triplanar matching ? Dear Doug: +++++ " Probably the most Colibri-like " +++++Do you mean that this one has " spark " over the others ?Dear Raul,If I understand what you mean by "spark", I'd say yes. The silver and (especially) the gold UNIverses lack a bit of necessa... | |
| stylus cleaning Andre,Dry brushing alone is not adequate. Even if your records are perfectly clean, the stylus acquires a thin (molecular) layer of vinyl from each play. If this is not removed regularly it will continue to build up. This can be seen on well-used ... | |
| Shelter and Triplanar matching ? I see where the ZYX Web site cites both silver and copper with the same coil wire diameter (.035mm) and same weight (5.0gm)If both cartridges weigh the same and have the same wire diameter, maybe its not extra mass on the silver's cantilever that ... | |
| MC transformers - what do they sound like? I think that all of us take some learning through this kind of dialogue and I put an example from a person that I respect: this very enthusiastic person always defend the SUT against my opinion about, through the time he grow up ( very fast ) and ... | |
| Shelter and Triplanar matching ? Raul,I'm not saying any HOMC will be worse than any LOMC. That would be silly, comparing apples and oranges. But given the same manufacturer and model, the HO version will tend to be less accurate and less dynamic than the LO version. That's all.N... | |
| Verdier with or without the steel ball The fact that a ball bearing enhanced platter stability on one particular PV doesn't prove that it would do the same for every other turntable. Much depends on implementation. If the lateral bearing tolerances are tight enough to maintain platter ... | |
| stylus cleaning Mr. Clean Magic Eraser. Available at any supermarket or Walmart. $5 will buy enough to make hundreds of stylus cleaners.Cut off a piece of the white portion and blue tack/silicone glue to a nickel, or to any other non-magnetic base if a nickel wou... | |
| Shelter and Triplanar matching ? Doug,could you enlighten me,as to the differences between the ZYX Univ "silver vs copper",as this is of interest to me?Thanks,in advance.SirSpeedy,I've had three UNIverses in my system: copper, silver and gold coils. (Gold is by special order, Meh... |