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| 2 turntables and one phono stage - Can I??? Almarg, I was in a way responding to the (good) point that you made. To do this properly, you need to isolate the lead carrying the "ground" side of the cartridge output (which as you correctly state is merely the other side of the coil from hot) ... | |
| Technics SP 10 Mk II a --Reliable? Repairable? Many if not most of the ICs in either a Mk II or a Mk2A are "unobtainium". You are no better off with a Mk II vs a Mk2A in that regard. Some have said that the MkII is more reliable than the Mk2A, but I have never seen an explanation for that cont... | |
| Anyone have any experience with the Naogoka MP110? It's not merely a matter of using the correct VTF. You also need to consider the effective mass of the tonearm. Somewhere in the lit that goes with your tt, Music Hall may reveal the figure for your tonearm. With a high compliance cartridge, you w... | |
| Anyone have any experience with the Naogoka MP110? A lot of this has as much to do with compliance as with "ride height". An MM, like the Nagaoka, will tend to have a high compliance. This translates into bottoming out on warped LPs, if the tonearm mass is not helping to damp the action of the can... | |
| The correct internal-inductance of Windfeld cart.? Axelwahl, You originally asked about inductance, not impedance. This naturally led some people to ask why you wanted that information, since the proper loading of your cartridge is easiest to calculate based on the square of its turns ratio of the... | |
| Raven One Motor Noise Problem Ebm, Apparently you have never read Edgar Allen Poe. (Could not resist the opportunity for some levity.) | |
| Raven One Motor Noise Problem Without ever having seen a Raven One, but just from my past experience with turntable motors, I do not think that your experiment proves that your motor is OK. It would seem to me that the motor should not need a Vibrapod to make it quiet, and I d... | |
| Cardas Frequency Sweep and Burn-In Record ? Tracks 2a, b, and c (I think) are great for reviving a cartridge that may be broken in but has not been used for several weeks. | |
| 2 turntables and one phono stage - Can I??? FWIW, with respect to Almarg's comment, you should probably use a DPDT switch, so as to switch both sides of the two cartridges simultaneously. There should be no problem with that. The shield would be separated from the so-called "hot" and "groun... | |
| 2 turntables and one phono stage - Can I??? As Sidssp inferred, you COULD use a splitter, if you also used a switch, so that the phono circuit was only "seeing" one of the two cartridges at any one time, or to put the same concept in another way, so that the cartridge you are listening to w... | |
| Tripods as turntable or component base? Hifigeezer, With all due respect, Stereo Review was a rag. But Mike Fremer did use accelerometer(s) to evaluate the Finite Elemente and the Monaco Grand Prix stands and reported his results in Stereophile. His tests generated quite a furor among d... | |
| Tables That Feature Bearing Friction Berlinta, T_bone, Raul, Dave, et al: Do you all except Dertonarm's contention that belt drive is the inherently superior way to motivate a platter, compared to all forms of idler- or direct-drive and notwithstanding theoretical air propulsion? It ... | |
| Tables That Feature Bearing Friction Dertonarm, You are entitled to your opinion, but please acknowledge that you DO have an opinion - that the ultimate turntable must have a humongous platter driven by a string or thread. That is an agenda in itself. You have closed your mind to oth... | |
| Tables That Feature Bearing Friction Dertonarm, For your consideration, an idler-drive in which the motor force is applied to the underside of the platter, in the vertical plane. Thus no horizontal force needs to be cancelled. No string needs to be chosen or "adjusted". In short, I o... | |
| Tables That Feature Bearing Friction Dertonarm, You have written that there should be no force on the bearing in the horizontal plane, and elsewhere you have written that use of more than a single motor is a no-no. (I agree in both cases.) But how would you achieve the former goal in... |