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| Tweaks such as demagnetizers ionizers for lp's :-)My partner, whose brainstorm this was, will be pleased. Of course he'll just say, "Really? Two electromagnets of similar size powered by the same current produce similar effects? Did you expect otherwise?" ;)But he'll still be pleased, so thank... | |
| Optimizing TNT, Triplanar, Transfiguration Temper While I haven't heard a Temper in my system (I also have TriPlanar), I don't believe most Trannys would benefit from damping and I'd definitely remove the trough. You should hear a lower sound floor and more low level detail. Not so much benefit o... | |
| Isolation/Vibration control advise for a phono pre Agree with Johnnyb53 regarding Herbie's tube dampeners. They're cheap and they work. I have them on all my preamp tubes. (For power tubes I prefer Pearl tube coolers, which dissipate heat well and should prolong tube life.)My two-chassis Doshi Ala... | |
| VPI Rim Drive vibrations Krell303, If you need to isolate your TT from the floor yet also need it holding rock steady vis-a-vis the motor, the obvious solution is to place both TT and motor on a single platform, then isolate that from the floor. Vibraplane, Symposium shel... | |
| ZYX R-100 Yatra & SME 3009 MKII Non-Improved Thanks, Peter. I'm no SME expert. I just pulled the first number I spotted off the internet...An arm of 12.5g eff mass should be a match with a ZYX, providing that the ZYX has the manufacturer's optional SB headshell weight installed. | |
| Tweaks such as demagnetizers ionizers for lp's Tzh21Y, if you have an opportunity to compare results with the Furutech we'd all love to hear about it.I can't reiterate too strongly, PLEASE unplug this cheap, made in C***a doohickey whenever you're not actively using it. It overheats quickly, s... | |
| Mistracking Jimborjrjb, thanks for coming back to the fray and sorry if I sullied your thread in any way.Here's a simple test to detect damaged or flawed vinyl:Power up your system and cue the stylus down just prior to the offending passage, but with the TT p... | |
| Graham Phantom Supreme? minimal connection points are highly over-rated. The Graham Supreme demonstrates this quite handily.How so? The only way to know would be to compare a single-wired Phantom Supreme to a standard-wired one, which no one has done AFAIK. The problems ... | |
| ZYX R-100 Yatra & SME 3009 MKII Non-Improved Jaytea,Unless I'm mistaken, your SME is a lower mass arm, around 9.5 grams. ZYX's are not well suited to such arms. While it's not the only factor, the arm/cart resonance frequency may be above the normally recommended 8-12Hz range. You could chec... | |
| MoFi So Long So Wrong Goatwuss, Stingreen and Tricon_dave are correct. This LP plays fine in my system too but I have two friends with (less capable) systems which distort it just as you described, especially the inner tracks. We've played the same copy in all three sy... | |
| Tweaks such as demagnetizers ionizers for lp's Sarcher30, glad you're enjoying this poor man's Furutech demag! IME and Dan's it's more effective and longer lasting than a $200 Walker Talisman. Whether it matches the $1800 Furutech is untested, but as they use the same technology...The usage I ... | |
| Mistracking Appeals to authority are irrelevant unless the authority addressed the issue of concern, which is not the case here. Jimbojrjb has a *specific* problem with a *specific* passage on a *specific* LP. None of the authorities cited ever played that LP... | |
| Mistracking Mr. R, I concur that most tonearm manufacturer's calibrated A/S or VTF scales are of little use. I pay no more attention to those than I do to test records. The world's best tonearms don't even have such scales, for good reason. The goal is simple... | |
| Tweaks such as demagnetizers ionizers for lp's The idea is to start with the device (powered up) very close to the object. Circle it s-l-o-w-l-y around the object while s-l-o-w-l-y increasing the distance. As the field slowly changes position and weakens, molecules in the object orient themsel... | |
| Mistracking The steady-state conditions of a test record don't teach us how to fine tune for the varying conditions presented by real LPs. The OP's problem is with one particular passage on one particular LP. He may be able to play a test record perfectly yet... |