frogman
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| Looking for guidance with older VPI HW-19 tables The HW19, while an aesthetically "dated" design, is performance-wise, not a dated design at all. The Jr.'s main liability was it's inferior bearing/platter assembly. The original acrylic/lead/cork platter (not the Jr.) of the true HW19 is an excel... | |
| Looking for guidance with older VPI HW-19 tables I disagree about buying an unsprung table. In my experience, wether you like the sound of the HW19 with springs or not completely depends on what you are sitting the table on, and wether your floors are springy or not etc. Much harder to come by a... | |
| Surface Noice, yubes and solid state I don't know exactly what you read about the subject, but I think that you may have misinterpreted, somewhat, what you read. I think that you are referring to a phenomenom first observed and written about by Harry Pearson of TAS. He observed that,... | |
| Meitner Museatex AT-2 turntable If you are referring to the "platterless" turntable, I heard it at the Stereophile show in NYC some years back. I am a big Meitner fan, but this turntable I thought was a disater. There is no way to flatten the record, so there was severe audible ... | |
| Questions about VPI TNT-MK-IV Platters Not all of the older non-inverting bearings used o-rings. I have a MK IV upgrade platter/bearing that does not use o-rings. The HW19 MK1-3, to the best of my recollection did not use o-rings. I do have a TNT MK V bearing/spindle on my TNT that doe... | |
| Would Like To Hear From Strain Gauge Owners This is the one time that I hope that my response is deleted by the Agon censors. Simply because I think Mrjstark's post is an absolutely perfect way to end this thread. | |
| Would Like To Hear From Strain Gauge Owners I have been following this thread with a bit of reluctant curiosity. I was, at one point, going to chime in and encourage responders to cut Raul a little slack; but only a little. Reason being that as a person for whom the English language is a se... | |
| Belt stretch Dougdeacon, great post! | |
| VPI HW-19 Upgrade question SAMA or SDS? Ferrari, if you have never tried going the no-spring, low-compliance suspension route, you really owe it to yourself to try it. Results will vary depending on where the table is situated and the tonearm used. Try tall tiptoes facing up, with a thi... | |
| VPI HW-19 Upgrade question SAMA or SDS? Siramazing, I recently bought a TNT MK5 (23 lb, acrylic, steel, lead) platter and bearing, and compared the platter only, to the original TNT platter (also known as the HW19 MK4). I say platter only because the wider diameter bearing is not usable... | |
| VPI HW-19 Upgrade question SAMA or SDS? Stringreen, I always welcome spirited discourse about the finer points of music making and playback. My comments are not intended to offend in any way. Having said that, I think I can prove my point to you:It is true that if a turntable's speed ac... | |
| VPI HW-19 Upgrade question SAMA or SDS? The SDS was, by a large margin, the most significant upgrade that I have made to my HW19 MK IV; including the upgrade to the MK IV "TNT" platter. By providing a much more consistent, and stable platter rotation, the SDS improves the areas of sound... | |
| Acrylic Platters and Shinny Spots Has anyone had success cleaning those whitish swirls that are left on black acrylic platters (VPI), after cleaning with alcohol, or other substances? What did you use?Thanks | |
| The AR turntable The AR is a solid tt. I owned one with a Premier MMT arm for a few years. I replaced it with a VPI W19 MK3 with Grado arm, and in my opinion the overall improvement in resolution, bass extension, and overall refinement was very significant, and no... | |
| Clarinet Music on vinyl or CDs Check out these threads.http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?gmusi&1006543126&openusid&zzYu11375&4&5#Yu11375http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?gmusi&984388491&openusid&zzNgm2001&4&5#Ngm2001 |