johnnantais
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| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Hi Mario, sorry to say, the M15E Super MKII was the top model in the VMS range ever produced, though the VMS 20 and VMS 30 which folllowed it were more famous. The M15 designation was the first VMS (Variable Magnetic Shunt, being centred around a ... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Hello all, back with some more audio experimentation and information. First of all, I resurrected my Piezo YM-308 MKII MM, apparently a moving iron like the Grados, and was greeted with the same tremendous resolution of fine detail as always hit m... | |
| Ortofon Jubilee vs. Dynavector XX-2 Mk. 2 Just to confuse the issue further, I'll cast my vote in favour of the Ortofon Jubilee, which I find is stupendous in terms of performance, with true high-end resolution of detail - as it should have considering it is, or was, Ortofon's top cartrid... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II What Steve, tupo, me ;-)?!? Actually, many of these rubber-decoupled tonearms do sag over time, but it doesn't seem to affect performance unless of course it's extreme. I too found the Sony PUA tonearms to be superb, but each one I got had a broke... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Thanks for your input Francois, it's been a looooonnnggg time since I played with a Lenco tonearm, the only one I ever rewired was back in '92 when I first discovered the Idler, then found my first Mighty Lenco!! That tonearm I also modified by gl... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Hi all, just a reiteration of a previous rave on piece of vintage audio: the fabulous MAS 282 tonearm!! After playing with the Sonus and the Audio Technica ATP-12, both of which came close to the JMW-10.5/Ortofn Jubilee combo, I mounted the MAS an... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Hi RFG, thanks for the input!! Haven't read a discovery post like this one for a long time now, I remember when the original thread was punctuated with just such regular reports from new converts, ah those were the days when nobody but an intrepid... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Hey, I missed the four-year anniversary of the beginning of the Idler-Wheel War!! We've come a LONG way baby, and actually affected the industry and brought to light the phenomena of stylus bforce drag, and the connected issue of speed stability a... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Hi Mike, thanks for the tweak suggestions. Pierre, the designer/builder of my 100-watt SS amp, had once very convincingly demonstrated the effects of the degaussing tweak, but these machines were no longer available (I think sold by Monarchy at th... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Hi Mike, how's your new Giant Lenco coming along? Out here in the country I've been busy with some experimentation and preparing for and then enjoying the local winter carnival, which involved lots of horses and lots of beer!I had wanted to mount ... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Hi Mike, sorry, my digital camera was destroyed by a grain of sand (while my '70s Nikon FM falls off of speeding motorcycles with nary an effect) during my travels. The Heavy Metal Decca can be recognized by its "futuristic-looking" headshell, slo... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Hi Lew, no, the issue as far as I understand it and understood back in the day was that servo-control is reactive, meaning that it reacts to deviation from absolute speed stability (whatever tolerance) and corrects, thus bringing with it an endles... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Hi all!! Starting with Mario, you're most welcome, your work is always an inspiration in dedication! A lot of DIYers should have a gander and think about the satisfaction of a project well done. I've discovered that in woodwork patience and care -... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II A Happy New Year to you all from Canada!! I have recently had some very interesting experiences with regards to both DDs and Idlers, and the effects and importance of Direct Coupling, having had the opportunity to compare the servo-controlled Sony... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II It's nearly Christmas all, so Merry Christmas in case I go missing again!! Up here it's constant snowstorms and sub-zero tempertaures, the snowbanks are piling high. Slow internet and intermittent access means I post less. Though my workshop is ou... |