dougdeacon
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| Best way to upgrade from a MMF9 Bombaywalla, Thank you for posting your Nott'/SDS/VPI experiences. I got slammed on VA for expressing this view, despite the widespread evidence. Good to know someone has heard it firsthand. | |
| How often do you demagnitize your MC cartridge? 4yanx, I can't really say whether that part of their claims has any merit. You know my stylus cleaning regimen as you said, and it's the most effective one I've tried. I didn't drag out my microscope, but there was no visible change under the 10x ... | |
| LIRPA1 I had something similar once. After filming 'The Wizard of Oz' the studio sold off the costumes and effects, as was usual for Hollywood. I wanted the ruby slippers but the price was too high, so I settled for the house-spinning machine instead. Th... | |
| How often do you demagnitize your MC cartridge? We haven't had a good shouting match in a while so I thought I'd resurrect this thread, which I followed when it was new but never contributed to due to zero experience at the time. That has changed.Our sonics had become surprisingly less involvin... | |
| Best way to upgrade from a MMF9 I'd also consider a Nottingham Spacedeck/Spacearm ($2500) + a suitable cartridge. I haven't heard one myself, nor a VPI for that matter, but my money would be on the Nott'. Many Scout/ScoutMaster owners have ended up adding expensive motor control... | |
| Best way to upgrade from a MMF9 And upgrading will certainly improve your neighbor's pleasure too!Having gone from a similar level to about a $6K rig I agree with Twl. | |
| Effective Mass The only thing I could find with a web search was a dealer spec for the current Moonbeam/VLMT. They recommended a cartridge weight of 4-10.5 grams, which implies that the VLMT has low-medium effective mass. That would be typical for a mid-market a... | |
| Effective Mass Why not ask Sota?http://www.sotaturntables.com | |
| It Also Doubles As An Apple Peeler. Twl expressed all my thoughts perfectly. The relatively large change in angle of the short arm when tracking a warp would challenge many cartridges. Too many bearings and parts to resonate. Too many connections in the signal path.I have his HIFI M... | |
| Alignment and resolution problem. Keith, if you have a 35mm camera with removable lenses, try taking a 50mm or shorter lens off the camera body and looking through that (backwards). It works really well. | |
| How Can I figure out my Effective Tone Arm Mass?? Mount a cartridge and play the resonance test tracks on the HFN test record. This will give you the horizontal and vertical resonance frequencies of that particular cartridge/arm combination. If you know the mass and compliance of the cartridge, y... | |
| Alignment and resolution problem. Keith,My TTB seems to be fine, but it took me a lot of tries to learn how to use it to best effect. For the longest time I was looking down on the cantilever at about a 45 degree angle. I was lining up the reflected cantilever with the real one th... | |
| How to reduce the friction in the bearing Good advice from all the above. If you do end up cleaning and polishing the bearing shaft and/or spindle as Johnnantais described, go VERY lightly and use the finest polishing compound you can find. It would be easy to overdue it, and your suggest... | |
| Vinyl, should I take the plunge? Albert,With all the noise that passes for conversation these days, of which I probably contribute more than my share, your post stands out as a model of how a forum can best be used. Thank you. | |
| Who will survive? One last table til I die. Stevecham, Please re-read the paragraph you just posted. It is clearly addressed to someone who is playing a record on the ELP and THEN transferring it to digital.The ELP itself does not perform any A/D conversion. It does not have the capability ... |