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Needless to say, my arm (the Well Tempered Reference) is all about silicone. And indeed, damping does change - somewhat - with the temperature. However, it takes extreme temperature changes to make me feel the need to adjust damping (whic...
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[quote user="Axel"]In my case I got more resolution with primary loading, BUT it gets very quickly too bright with even small changes, sounding all wrong. The 18k on *secondary* sounded fine, but was missing some more detail that I know from connecti...
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[quote user="guy sergeant"]Some of it, (the current speakers and some of the amplifiers) are in my view, not outstanding. Other items, (the big preamp, phono stage, cartridge, MC transformer, silver cables and largest power amps are exceptionally goo...
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That just about sums it up, all right. You'd think it would be obvious that cartridges are not a viable subject for DIY/boutique building and/or modding; but, apparently, they are yet approached in this way by a small "underground" army of hopefuls,...
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Well, I would say this CES was very low on decent sound. Sometimes I had to fight with the urge to leave a room or two immediately after hearing a few bars of music being played.Still the hope is not lost. At a fringe show at the Flamingo hotel (THE ...
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[quote user="dkarmeli"]If the rest of the setup is up scratch then all you get is the recording and you'll forget about they system. Your body and mind will relax and allow you to have the same emotional connection with the music as you'd have in a l...
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[quote user="N-set"] Romy would you care to elaborate on that a bit? In particular have you hear amorphous/silver combination?[/quote] Nope I never had it and even f I did it would be difficult to generalize anything. I had only once a fully silver...
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I juts got home, put a record to play and suddenly discovered that my SPU has it’s cantilever bent 90 degree and then even twisted vertically. It was perfectly fine last night!!! I have no idea what kind forced what applied to it and particularly how...
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I use my SPU Mono in 282 Micro’s arm with AU wand that was specifically made for the SPU cartridges. I run it 3g, not-oil-damped into SU2,so, the SPU sees ~60Ohn. I tend a slightly overload the typical MC cartridges and run them at 60R-75R of thier “...
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You might think I'd learn by now, but over the last two days I have traced sonic problems to the following: Dirty pins on one of the tubes in my phono stage; Loose counterweight set screw/too-heavy VTF; Loose cartridge mounting screw/...
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…. it is well known that do not consult on purchasing decisions, just have no interests and no motivations even to think about it. Also, frankly speaking I sick and tired to hear those questions: what speakers to buy, what amplifiers to buy, what car...
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I had to dismantle a friends chuffing PM6A drivers the other day (only to find that the foam spider had disintegrated after 5 years, nice work Lowther) What was interesting, possibly, was the coating that Lowther seem to be applying to the voice coil...
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I don't know this Steve Klein. I don't know what bullshit he uses to sell Audio Note's products in the US. If that is what you are attempting to satirise then fine.I am quite familiar with Audio Note Japan's (Kondo) products. I don't use any at the m...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
I never understood all those conversations about heavier wands or lighter wands… What all this silliness came from? The Mass of the wand, along with mass of cartridge, shell and the shit that we pile up sometimes in shel...
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I was spinning records with my new Jubilee. Playing with setting here and there… The Jubilee it looks like not too fuzzy. The 2.2-2.3g of VTF, the VTA is slightly back and the Jubilee it is not too picky like other cartridges. It used with a re...
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In impatient, ill-advised. manic efforts to "compensate" for the EFFECTS of bad power I have swapped ICs, used different output taps, re-configured grounds, swapped tubes, re-positioned speakers, adjusted VTA, messed with my BR ports. And ...
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Ciampa,
I am a huge fun of Shelter 901, love the cartridge, even I do not use it now but I would have no problems to continue use it. I do not about those new SME arms: SME 309, SME 4/5/6. I had once, sort time, SME V and I really did not “ge...
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Stressing Bass in my former post I would like do not overly accent the lower bass itself but rather an organic combination of bass with something that I would call “full body” sound.
It we look at many properly setups, loaded and amplified cartridge...
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I mounted the new Jubilee last night. I did not have much time to listen it and all that I heard was just a half side of a record that I know well. The Jubilee was at 2.3g, no enforced VTA, loaded to 75R, the 3012 arm with default shell: I have no id...
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Hello Romy,I should have made myself more clear about the paragraph you quoted. Typical situations:a. The arm is installed on a deck that accomodates more than one arm. The listener, if lucky, has two(for all intents and purposes) identical cartridge...
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Your spiel on the Dynavector arm ties back to another of your recent posts and it reminds me that few manufacturers of any genre really wind up caring about performance, per se, perhaps because there are so many other things to think about when intro...
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[quote user="George"] By fingerlift I mean that piece of metal sticking out about 1" (1/8" wide) at the extreme left end of the pipe. It is attached by two screws to the pipe. It looks easily removable but I have not tried it. I imagine it is possibl...
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[quote user="rowuk"]Jarek,I am a professional musician, and am very much in "tune" with creative processes.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oq1JShEmLsk
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.... the usual marketing blubber. The more expensive a High end Product is, the more superlatives you need to make it superior to anything else. You want the big bucks? You need a big mouth first.but we all know how this business runs. What amazes me...
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I shot a Pic from a Turntable, the owner bought a brand-new Ortofon cartridge this week. When I looked at the pic I saw that the angle is not the angle Framer recommends. It is not a super sharp picture, because the focus adjustments were on a differ...
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[quote user="Paul S"]Is there such a thing as partly unshielded arm wire? If you want that run shielded, don't you have to start at the cartridge connection? [/quote]Paul, the tonearm wire runs inside the metal armwands (EMT & SME), which in tur...
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Perhaps one reason why the Sussurro does not sound like other MC cartridges of Armen's experience is that it is NOT a MC. In fact it is a Moving Iron cartridge with fixed coils and fixed magnet albeit with low output.NB Capacitance is an issue I beli...
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Jarek, did you ever use/develop the cartridge? If not, WTF? If you did, surely you are obliged to share?Best regards,Paul S...
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...as you are making me dis-ass-emble and clean every-freaking-thing from the cartridge pins down to the power distribution box and fuses where I used deoxit too.But i accept the challenge, lets see where it brings me. Got your point on pure copper p...
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