dougdeacon
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| Getting granite tomorrow. Peter,That's really interesting that a Vibraplane beneath your TT improved both noise floor and dynamics. I don't know how they function but I've heard good things from many people. We haven't gotten around to trying one ourselves... so many vibra... | |
| Getting granite tomorrow. Here's our poor man's isolation setup. Of course it helps that I have a PhD materials scientist at home to dummy-check my stupider ideas. This explanation may help demonstrate how breaking a complex project into its discrete elements helps inform ... | |
| Getting granite tomorrow. Three BDR cones would probably support 2,000 lbs., but for basic technical questions the manufacturer's website or help line is usually a reliable source. | |
| Getting granite tomorrow. The lack of responses may be due to your confusion of basic concepts. You said you're trying achieve "isolation" yet you've assembled a pile of mostly non-compliant materials that will provide little isolation to speak of. Either the goal or the m... | |
| Headshell Washers : Nylon or Stainless Steel? Moonglum,Not to further exacerbate your OCD or anything, but with gear at that level optimizing your settings means tweaking for every session, perhaps for every LP. ;-) | |
| Multiple arms, multiple cartridges and geometry? Nandric nailed it. Get to work, and you might as well enter the S2IG (spindle-to-inner groove) dimension in a searchable database while you're at it. | |
| Ortofon A90 broken stylus I read in the internet that an Ortofon Jubilee's owner has made the retip with Soundsmith and reported that it sounds even better than before...Gosh! That's as authoritative as it is applicable.A Jubilee is to an A90 as a ukulele is to a Strad. Ev... | |
| Headshell Washers : Nylon or Stainless Steel? Whether there's an audible difference will of course be system-dependent. FWIW, it's clearly audible in mine. Your system isn't listed so I couldn't guess whether it would be audible in yours.As to which is preferable, that's a matter of taste. In... | |
| Using Test LP - curious observations The last possibility that I can think of why the cartridge might sound better without AS is tonearm geometry set-up. We must use our protractors to set the HTA and VTA in a static situation. That means that while the cantilever is loaded in the ve... | |
| Balanced XLR to RCA Adapters: Good or Bad? Ebm wrote: Im using Cardas xlr to rca very good none is better.Compared to what? No one's in a position to state that "none is better" because no one's heard everything out there. I've also used the Cardas adaptors. Compared with my Doshi-built o... | |
| Balanced XLR to RCA Adapters: Good or Bad? True enough, Herman... For some reason I clicked on YOUR system and was responding with that in mind, which of course isn't relevant to the OP either. Pre-new year's lack of sobriety? | |
| Balanced XLR to RCA Adapters: Good or Bad? I WOULD take that bet, at least if I could do the comparison in my system. I know from experience that we'd hear the difference easily.I've used RCA/XLR adaptors. The commercially available ones all sounded like mud. My preamp designer then built ... | |
| Using Test LP - curious observations Moonglum,Good question:...you will no doubt have seen cantilevers bent like a bow due to skating force Actually, I have never seen a cantilever bent/angled due to SKATING forces and I doubt anyone else has either. Skating forces pull the stylus in... | |
| Pros and Cons of "Staying with" Analog and Vinyl I know the golden eared types can spend endless hours worried about minutia, ...Why describe what you hear and prefer in emotionally neutral terms while describing what others hear and prefer as "minutia" [sic] of concern only to "golden eared typ... | |
| Pros and Cons of "Staying with" Analog and Vinyl Others have covered most of the questions you have to decide. What music do you have in your record collection that you value and can't hear otherwise? If it's not much, consider transferring it to digital before bailing.If, OTOH, it's substantial... |