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| Technics SP-10 Tonearm Pod instead of Plinth/Base I don't have any idea why it might be so, but I have had negative reports on marble as a material for plinths. You can say it rings when you tap it, as does granite, but I have never understood how/why that should be the determining factor. I woul... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? It's probably a matter of tonearms rather than cartridges, but Raul, I find that with the Dynavector/TLZ, I need some AS to center the image. Otherwise the center of the stage is over to the right speaker, although there is no real distortion. But... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Last night I let the TLZ play one side of an LP about 10 times, without turning on the rest of the system, in order to "break-in" the 20-year-old suspension. Then I settled in to listen to it again. The exercise did it a lot of good. There was muc... | |
| Technics SP-10 Tonearm Pod instead of Plinth/Base This is yet another of those "to each his own" audio discussions. We can be comfortable knowing we are all in the right. Have fun. If any one of us besides Raul tries it both ways, please report back on your preference. | |
| Technics SP-10 Tonearm Pod instead of Plinth/Base Raul has a point; I have never heard an SP10 sans plinth. Really, there are two issues here: (1) plinth vs no plinth, and (2) outboard arm pod vs mechanical linkage of the tonearm mount to the tt chassis. I feel more strongly on the latter subject... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Raul, If the load R goes up, what should happen to C (up or down), for optimum results? It's hard to find any such analysis on the web for MM cartridges. Do R and C act as a simple hi-pass filter here, or is the inter-relationship more complex? As... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Ray, Raul is always going to tell it like it is. I've been running my TLZ in a Dynavector DV505. This arm is a chameleon in that it has very high mass in the lateral plane and the effective mass in the vertical plane is largely a function of what ... | |
| Technics SP-10 Tonearm Pod instead of Plinth/Base Guys, If I am wrong about Raul's rig, I stand corrected. It means that I have been under the wrong impression for several months. In fact I thought Raul agreed with me when in other places I had stated my case against having separate arm pods. Nan... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Ray, Please forgive me. You've got me completely wrong. I am not, was not sniping at you in any way. I appreciate your contributions and your presence here. All I was saying was what I said, and nothing more. If you will re-read my post, you will ... | |
| Technics SP-10 Tonearm Pod instead of Plinth/Base I am not sure that your description of Raul's set-up is correct. I thought he had mounted the tonearm on a short skirt of plywood that is also fastened around the tt chassis. In any case, that would be my preference, if I were to go with the ultra... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Ray, I don't really care what someone else says about this, as there really is no right or wrong. I am telling you that with the TLZ, I found much to enjoy when I switched to 100K load. Since this cannot cause anything to blow up or even to work h... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Ray, If you haven't read this whole long thread, I wrote at least 3 times that many years ago when the TLZ was my regular cartridge, I accidentally loaded it at 100K ohms (or more likely at 94K ohms with two 47K resistors). During my next listenin... | |
| Cartridges better than Colibri XGP? IMO, there are so many structural variants of the "Colibri", as partially outlined by Mike Lavigne, that I don't know how any one person could say he knew the sound exactly. Not only do the materials vary but also the output voltage seems to vary ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Thanks, Ray. It's good to have independent confirmation of my preliminary impressions. I always did like the TLZ and only went to an HOMC in order to be "in fashion", I guess. I do remember auditioning the next lower priced Grado model at that tim... | |
| What phono preamps are balanced Pedrillo, Most likely the 5th lead from the Graham 2.2 is just to ground the tonearm body to the preamp chassis. It's a toss-up whether you would even need to connect it. With my RS-A1 tonearm, I had hum until I ran a ground wire from the body to ... |