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| Upgrade from TW Acustic Raven AC-3 to what? Alectiong, Since there seems to be a consensus that Vibraplane or Minus K is a sine qua non for mounting a suspension-less turntable, why not buy one of those two and try it with your AC3, before making up your mind. Either platform will be compat... | |
| XLR waste of time ? Yep, I agree with everyone else. Except what Ghostrider says is not totally correct. In fact the Ayre IS a fully balance piece, and in order to take advantage of that you do need to access its XLR inputs and ideally drive it with a balanced signal... | |
| Upgrade from TW Acustic Raven AC-3 to what? Peter, "Well-healed" indeed. Maybe after dropping that lead platter on your big toe. I have been impressed by the Walker too, every time I have heard one. | |
| effective mass ??? Jlin, Can you reference the article in Hi Fi Choice wherein they measured or in some way estimated tonearm effective mass? The Fidelity Research has a stainless steel armwand, or so I have read, that was quoted elsewhere to give a MUCH higher effe... | |
| Upgrade from TW Acustic Raven AC-3 to what? What Syntax wrote is the Truth."Hi Jfrech, good as the AC-3 may be, there must be room for improvement, otherwise TW wouldnt have come up with the Black Knight..." Not necessarily.More expensive does not equal better. But if you are really unhappy... | |
| TriPlanar Tips Thanks, Doug. I did not mean to sound snotty about Nieman, but I guess I did. I knew Herb Papier for his last 15 years or so. He was a very careful listener, and he did not do anything to his tonearm that he himself did not try out in his own syst... | |
| TriPlanar Tips Can anyone tell me why the damping trough should be such a negative as claimed? Do you think it is the damping per se or is it resonances set up by the physical presence of the trough and paddle? In that regard, have you all checked that the screw... | |
| Allnic Verito Z:Owners and those familiar I don't own an Allnic cartridge, but the object of VTA adjustment is really to obtain the proper SRA (Stylus Rake Angle). If that requires raising the rear of the tonearm so that the tonearm is no longer parallel to the LP, I say do it anyway. The... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Siniy123, What tonearm are you using with the M0FL Super? FWIW, the cartridge is "compatible" with my PTP/Lenco, too. | |
| which is better ? MC phono stage or MM+step-up ? Question: which is better ? MC phono stage or MM+step-up ?Answer: Yes. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Raul, Please stop making me spend money. I will soon be living on bread and water, but I will have a lot of turntables (5), tonearms (>5), and cartridges (probably about 9 total of all types right now). I actually have recently sold 3 turn... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Back in the days of yore when I briefly owned a Shure V15 Type ??, I did not like it at all. It sounded "gray" and dull to me compared to whatever I compared it to. I am willing to believe that with these different styli it must sound completely d... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Thank Raul. I was skeptical until last week. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Axel, "Slow" is not an adjective I would ever use with respect to the M20FL Super, and I have compared it to a VdH Colibri, perhaps the fastest of the fast. I would say it does have a lot of harmonic bloom that could be heard as "slow"ness, but un... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dean, I am going to listen to the Andante P76 next, so by early next week perhaps I will have another shoot-from-the-hip opinion of the Andante as compared to the M20FL. I think Axel also likes the M20FL, but I don't know what he has compared it t... |