peterayer
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| VTA and HTA overhang Theo, I think you are referring to an SRA of 92 degrees. I have met MF and listened to him discuss this topic and it makes sense to me and I have viewed my stylus through a USB microscope and tried to calculate the angle. I do my final adjustment ... | |
| Trans Fi Salvation direct rim drive turntable Spirit, during the loading of an LP, what kind of protection does the stylus have? It sounds from your description as though the cartridge is exposed to the LP being slid in horizontally. Is this correct? And if so, are you ever nervous about acci... | |
| World's best Pre-amp for $10K and above? I've never read anything like this thread in these forums. I don't really know if the OP is joking, serious, or if he is a dealer for these products. I have one question: Once you have assembled these holy grail components, who is going to set it ... | |
| Why does your turntable sound the way it does. I can't say much about dampening vibrations and effecting the sound of a turntable. Is it livelier or deader? But I can write from experience that I have lived with two turntables in my system, one unsuspended, and one suspended, and the sound imp... | |
| Just got my Audio Desk Systeme LP cleaner... Syntax did offer me some very good advice regarding Vibraplane isolation platforms. I also agree with him that there are more effective record cleaning machines and multi step fluids out there, though the Audio Desk is by far the most convenient m... | |
| Difference between Pass Labs XA160.5 an X600.5? Gary, Thanks for the update. Are you keeping either amp for your system and may I ask which speakers and pre amp you use? I had an XP-30 in my system for a week with the XA160.5 and XONO and really liked this new preamp. | |
| Trans Fi Salvation direct rim drive turntable Spirit, looking at the Reso Mat, it appears that the LP rests on a few points elevated above the platter. Without anyway to clamp the LP down and prevent it from moving, do you notice any slippage of the LP as the needle creates drag during large ... | |
| Magico v2 with mcintosh 601 Congratulations Jchoiny. The V2 really is excellent. | |
| Pass Labs XP 30 VS Ayre KXR Pre Jeb, Congratulations on the new pre amp. It is really superb. I heard it for the first time today.In an early post above, I asked if anyone had actually heard both of these in the same system. I had the chance to do a direct comparison between the... | |
| Pass labs and wilson ausio sasha w/p I just took my Pass Labs XA160.5 to a friend's system. He has the Sashas and a Pass XP-30. His room is medium size and we played the music load but not ear-bleeding levels. We played a variety of jazz, pop and classical, vinyl and digital. The XA1... | |
| Trans Fi Salvation direct rim drive turntable "One thing that VPI, Sota, SME etc. won't be able to provide is a paradigm busting approach to getting the best out of analogue, technology that emphasises all it's postitive attributes with few of the negatives associated with more traditional te... | |
| Trans Fi Salvation direct rim drive turntable Sksos1, The Timeline has humbled owners of DD, belt and rim drive tables. It can be quite cruel. I did try in on my old table and it clearly showed that it was fast. With no speed adjustability, it was quite an eye-opener. I'm waiting for someone ... | |
| Brinkmann LaGrange & Base I heard both the Brinkmann Balance and the Bardo on Vibraplane platforms at the recent audio show in NYC. I understand that the dealer now sells most of his Brinkmanns with Vibraplanes for isolation. The sound in this room was extremely good. | |
| Trans Fi Salvation direct rim drive turntable No, I haven't heard the Continuum or Da Vinci or the Monaco, but that is exactly my point. I can't know that some other drive system is clearly better or worse in all cases as you suggest of your Direct Rim Drive over all belt and even DD types. I... | |
| Trans Fi Salvation direct rim drive turntable Spirit, being from England, I wonder if you have ever heard an SME 30/12 with V-12 arm in a well set up system? Or any of the other top belt drives like the Continuum, the Walker, TW Acustics Black Night, Brinkman Balance, DiVinci. Do you feel tha... |