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| Lyra Argo i or Shelter 5000? Although there is little point in my commenting on competitor's products, as regards Lyras, rather than the Argo I suggest that you may want to consider the soon-to-be shipped Delos. It is likely that you will find it a more capable performer as w... | |
| New Lyra Delos Cartridge Hi: Few people have listened to the Delos so far, because we have only supplied a limited number of final preproduction cartridges to a handful of our distributors (although it has been displayed and played at several audio shows in Japan and Euro... | |
| Killing sibilance distortion - VPI & Jubilee Hi Doug:I agree with the overall theme of your post, but regarding the technical details of the "escape of energies at various frequencies from the generator as mechanical energy, rather than being converting into electrical signals", please allow... | |
| Transfiguration:sonic balance/Axia shares Phoenix Hi again Neil:>I do think the two-magnet design precedes the single-ring (not absolutely sure)In general it doesn't (as I mentioned about the Philip GP-922 of the late 1970s), and I believe that the AF (IIRC) which I occasionally used in the ea... | |
| Transfiguration:sonic balance/Axia shares Phoenix Neil: The first Transfigurations had the single ring-magnet configuration, which to me appears generally unchanged with the present Orpheus and Temper designs. I used a Transfiguration in the early 1990s, and it was of this type.Transfiguration ap... | |
| TEAC TN-400 Magnefloat Direct Drive Turntable As a bit of history, Magnefloat was originally not a TEAC brand, but an independent Japanese company which was perhaps the first to develop magnetic levitation for turntable bearing use (I believe that they did so in the 1960s). They produced turn... | |
| Technics SP-10 MKIIA tonearms IME tonearms were what Technics did best. In terms of quality, I consider the EPA-100MkII to be at the top of the Japanese-made tonearms (or at least very close to it). Even today, the MkII is more than competitive with most tonearms.cheers, jonat... | |
| Alignment tool for SME V + Shelter Nandric: In recent years I have tried to stay with 9.52mm (not 9.25) for the distance between a cartridge's stylus and mounting holes, first because maintaining a specific distance makes it easier to swap cartridges, second because I am unaware of... | |
| TriPlanar Tips Lew: As previously stated here, I encountered the same issue as you, and machined a shim myself as a workaround.http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?eanlg&1246760461&openflup&8&4#8 | |
| Micro SX-8000 II or SZ-1 With this kind of air-bearing turntable, you may care to experiment by using the motor to drive the flywheel, and driving the turntable platter with the flywheel. In this arrangement the flywheel will function as a filter for motor irregularities,... | |
| the perfect tonearm Hi Mikeyc8: Ikeda's tonearms, like the FR's and IT's mostly veer in the direction of high mass, and should work far better with low-compliance cartridges than high-compliance. I'd say that the IT-245 is at least comparable the 64fx, and probably s... | |
| the perfect tonearm Hi Lew:>What model of Triplanar have you used that has such a headshell?For sure mine is not the latest version. My memory is that I started using it around 2000~2001, and had it paired with the Allearts around 2002.>I have owned mine for mo... | |
| the perfect tonearm To Mikeyc8, you may have problems finding what you are looking for such a price in a new arm.I concur with Dertonarm's recommendation for the Graham 2.2, which is easy to setup and sounds decent. The Triplanars also sound decent, and if you can fi... | |
| Fidelity Research cartridges Hi Marco (Heradot): I didn't see your post for the longest time, apologies for the tardy response!First, I removed anything on the arm structure that wasn't absolutely essential for playback. That means in particular the armlift, also the armrest.... | |
| Why is the Shelter 501 mono so expensive? Stanwal, no, what happens is that the cartridge builder is usually overworked with normal orders, and there won't be sufficient open time to insert orders that don't have clear customers for.Also a dozen cartridges isn't enough for efficient produ... |