dougdeacon
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| periphery ring clamps worth money It depends on the rig and the system as a whole. The more help your TT needs to sink vibations away from the record and/or the more resolving the system, the more difference you'll probably hear.On my Teres 265/OL Silver, a ring made a sonic impro... | |
| Will Grace F9 Cart work with Rega RB250 tonearm? I haven't heard the F9 (in any version) so take this FWIW...First and foremost, ask Soundsmith what the compliance will be on an F9 with their OCL Ruby cantilever. That's crucial information.I believe some stock F9s were highly compliant cartridge... | |
| Record clamps: do they really make a difference. Actually, a heavy weight will make a noisy bearing run quieter.It may, but it's also a sonic band-aid that's unlikely to be the optimal mechanical approach. Some TT bearings have inherently sloppy tolerances and need grease. Others have tight tole... | |
| Record clamps: do they really make a difference. Bdgregory, It's equally true that if you have the right clamp, a mat may not be beneficial. :-)That's the case with my Teres, for instance. Which approach is best, and which particular device is best, depends on the rig, system characteristics as ... | |
| Telarc 1812 revisited Raul,I was never a defender of SUTs, still less the "official" one, whatever that means. Please don't put words in my mouth.It's true I once used them (as have you). In using them, I learned something of their strengths and weaknesses. I posted wh... | |
| Telarc 1812 revisited Thanks as always for your valuable input, Jonathan... bon voyage! | |
| Telarc 1812 revisited I posted three times here and in other threads this sentece that you certainly did not read, here again:" EVERYTHING THE SAME Unfortunately, everything is never the same. Modifying a system to enable extreme behavior in one parameter invariably af... | |
| Telarc 1812 revisited Peter, it hurts to denigrate my Landy that way, but it is what it is. Hope he wasn't listening. His ex-wife (an RX-8) would never let him hear the end of it! ;-) | |
| VTA and SRA? Whether SRA is worth measuring is another question altogether, one that's been discussed to death on many threads. My own view is that while I can measure SRA on most styli I choose not to, since I've found it to be a waste of time. SRA differs fr... | |
| Telarc 1812 revisited An audiophile, speaking to one of the world's premier phono cartridge designers:I don't have gold ears, I'm a " normal " listener...... but, ...I can detect some kind of " sound " that you can't because you don't know what to look for...False mode... | |
| VTA and SRA? I imagine that people having difficulty understanding this also find it difficult to visualize other spatial relationships. They may be challenged by geometry, geography, map-reading and navigation, jigsaw puzzles, loading the dishwasher efficient... | |
| Am I damaging my turntable? Elizabeth... my distance vision is so poor I can't even find the spoon. | |
| VTA and SRA? Both would be changed. Changing SRA without simultaneously changing VTA would require altering the angle between the stylus and cantilever... not recommended. ;-) | |
| VTA and SRA? Read it again. SRA = the angle formed between:1) a vertical line through the lowest contact point of the stylus and 2) the line of the stylus's contact ridge or edge. #1 never changes, but #2 can be changed in several ways.The stylus's contact edg... | |
| VTA and SRA? Czarivey and Effischer,Your posts are incorrect. For a basic understanding read the link posted by Mofimadness above, which is *almost* correct.VTA and SRA are both viewed from the side of the cartridge (along the axis of the cantilever, as Effisc... |