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Indeed a good interview and it is possible that it is a good tonearm. I wish this guy do not cash out at his site in each sentence his musical background. He is making tonearms not interpreting music and the skill sett that he need demonstrate are no...
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What would be good place to start? I am using custom built 834P and S&B 103s. Also, my tonearm is 9-inch SME M2, should I put some additional weight on it?Thank you....
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Romy,I use Ortofon Rondo Bronze with Nottingham Spacearm and Spacedeck. I hate Spacearm because bad tracking. Also, I can't add mass to Spacearm.I going to try a heavy tonearm.Fidelity Research FR-64FX with Ortofon Rondo Bronze (compliance is 15mm/uN...
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Romy,Yes, I measured my cartridge-tonearm combination with test disk. The resonant frequency was completely different compared to calculation with http://www.mh-audio.nl/MySystem/RF.asp.7 years ago, I tried Fidelity
Research FR-64FX with Grado Sona...
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[quote user="tokyo john"]Audio Note has released a turntable called the Ginga which costs 60 thousand US dollars in Japan. (if you google Audio Note Ginga images you will find it very easily).My first reaction was pure cynicism, as Audio Note doe...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
Possible, with all my conversation about Mantis I do not remember I ever made any guess or assumption how it might sound. In horns, I feel I am qualified to make sometimes very bold assessments with very high prece...
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[quote user="noviygera"]
Not that physics is my strong suit, but casually watching a physics youtube video this thought crossed my mind.
I wonder if gyroscopes can be used in a turntable to improve it's performance without reverting t...
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Specs for TechDas AirForce One
Air bearing main platter 19 kg of non magnetic SUS316L stainless steel Upper Platter of choice A7075: super duraluminum 3.5 kg SUS316L: 10.0 kg Acrylic resin: black methalcryalate 1,5 kg All those upper pla...
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Since my “End of Life" Phonostage have materialized I got exposed to a temptation of finding a “right” cable between my tonearm to the phonostage. The most critical cable between the step-up transformer and phonostage does not exist in my system anym...
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Wow, price inflation in TTs were a lot worse than I thought! (more than 400% in nominal prices in the example of Goldmund).
You are right, the prices in audio seem a riddle wrapped in a mystery within an enigma. As a manufacturer, it is almost...
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It is fashionable among audio people to play with this analog, rewiring tonearms for instance. It always astonished me how masochistic this ceremony is and how many people dive into it completely voluntary.
Ok, let me explain you something. In MC an...
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A German company Avatar Acoustics makes loudspeakers with adjustable positioning of their ribbon-tweeter. This is very much with the context of this thread although I’m questioning a lot of things in those loudspeakers (pretty much everything beside ...
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I was beginning to wonder if I'd ever get the new listening room checked out electrically and the new system ground installed, etc., but I finished this work yesterday, including a soldered-rather-than-clamped ground wire-to-rod connection. ...
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It seems that all my analog-missing-LF-paranoia can be blamed entirely on that original DG pressing.How could I know that I was using a superbly miserable pressing as my bass calibrator? It really made me give up on my turntables for a while there.&n...
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Paul, I've taken the pains to redo all the connections I could. Washing Deoxit away was a horror. I polished everything I could polish with a jewellery green polishing paste on a polishing cloth, and flushed the remainings with isopropanol.I then use...
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It remains to be seen if the foray into more nurturing, compassionate sound can be accomplished intuitively, or how much mind it will take to manifest the "solution". I go back to what sounded like frustration with a very complex system, and I know f...
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Yes, it would be nice if audio publications/reviewers leveled with people and actually spoke about the personal aspect/responsibility of setting up and tuning a hi-fi, and TT/tonearm/cartridge in particular, especially considering the absurd prices t...
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Frank, I do not generally participate in the “technical discussions” about the tonearm design I would live it to DIYAudio0type of people. I see no point and no particular interest on the subject. There are multiple reasons why. Not the last of th...
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Recently, I have become aware of a strange phenomenon after lifting the tonearm at the end of the run-out groooves. The record surface noise keeps going when the stylus is no longer in contact with the record. I am using a Garrard 301 with SME 3...
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I was taking lately with the Blue Angel’s Andre and kept asking him about his cartridge’s bass. He got “scared” and asked me if I am looking for overly-anaphased bass, then he asked what kind music I am listening. I perfectly understand why he got “s...
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[quote user="Paul S"] One great "test" of a cartridge/system is the best recordings of the best operatic tenors.[/quote] Not necessary only tenors – just good operatic singers would do. Some properly arranged and performed operatic moments are incred...
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Hi. I acquired and spent a lot of time on this guy over the last few months. I've installed a Dynavector 507 MK II tonearm and a Dyhavector XVS-1 cartridge. I read Romy's comments that in his experience with the 8000 the belt doesn't affect the sou...
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Alex, I am guessing that with the listed "compliance" of the 901 you could use an I-beam as your tonearm. You could probably start by taping a small adhesive-type tire weight, ~10g, to the SME headshell and maybe add corresponding weight t...
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I should have known the new Technics tonearm was not a "factory reinstatement" of the old EPA-100. Having just googled it, I can now see it looks more like the (later but still discontinued, I think; also, cheaper...) EPA-500. On the one hand, it f...
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Hello Romy,Just thought I'd post my latest re-visit to this cartridge.I've played with this overthe last 2 years on and off between Helikon/VDH MC10. It was ok but did not make a big deal,so I carried on with the Lyra which was finebut not what ...
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The New Jersey Symphony purchased a number of high priced instruments - Strads, Guanaris, etc. in what they called "The Golden Collection". They paid way too much money for the collection, but thought that the better sound and the "Mystique" of...
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[quote user="Antonio J."]Well, I don't know if there's something wrong with the platter and I'd like to know it. All I know is that lower bass has kind of "detachement" from the mid-upper bass, that I don't hear from the tuner nor the DAC. [/quote]
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Of course - as ever - the cited discussion has nothing to do with the arm...and - as ever - the price is no indicator of its performance capabilities...Stitch, do you know if the vertical "leaf" bearing is on the plane of the arm tube, as it seems to...
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t took me 5 freaking years to fin-anally install a second set of SUT's in my EAR834. 4 out of those 5 years was waiting for Tribiute Pieter to make me custom silver SUT's on nanocrystaline core. I even found him the wire. I went boutique and the ...
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I have coved this subject in past. I was not able to find a solution how to add resistors to change loading and how to make it to be switched that would not degrade sound. So, my own phonocorrector has no adjustable loading. If I need to do it I woul...
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