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| New Teres Direct Drive Motor Available as Option Ketchup, One would need to know a lot more about how a cutting lathe works. Perhaps someone among us can enlighten the rest. But if your idea has any validity, then in effect "stylus drag" is a good thing. There seems to be a body of empirical evi... | |
| New Teres Direct Drive Motor Available as Option Swampwalker, I don't want to wade into an argument about belt drive vs idler drive vs etc, but "torque" is defined as angular force. So, torque is the product of mass multiplied by acceleration, like any other force. Then, if stylus drag could be ... | |
| New Teres Direct Drive Motor Available as Option Thom, what a cool idea! By using one platter as the pulley to drive the other, I think (if I remember my Newtonian mechanics correctly) there is less stretching force on the belt and a lower likelihood of slippage, ergo less speed irregularity (be... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Rs, An SME V is not in the cards for me, but I will let you know how the Triplanar/Koetsu works when I finally do get the tt from UPS. (Yes, it's been more than 3 weeks since Jean shipped the Lenco to me, with many snafus on the part of the UPS cu... | |
| Frequency/Channel imbalance. Help Azimuth adjustment per se has very little effect on the output per channel (i.e., balance). This fact is mentioned in two erudite treatises on azimuth to be found in the Vinyl Asylum archives, authored by Victor Khomenko and B Kearns, respectively... | |
| Stand-alone phono amps? Your correct that a "stand-alone" phono preamp, which used to be known as a "preamp", before the rise of CD and the (temporary) eclipse of vinyl, gives most bang for the buck. Not only are the phono and linestages on one chassis, but also you don'... | |
| Building high-end 'tables cheap at Home Despot II Radialsteve, That's very encouraging news that the Lenco/Triplanar can best two such a hallowed analog ikons. I'm sitting here waiting for my re-plinthed Lenco (gloss black base with ruby red chassis) to arrive from the mighty Jean who posted it j... | |
| Need cartridge advice for Supratek preamp I have no problem with the advice you've already been given (though I personally do not care for any of the Benz cartridges I've heard), but it would be a terrible shame to limit yourself to spending $250 on the cartridge, when you've bought yours... | |
| Cartridge Break-in at High VTF? Probably not a good idea, but probably harmless if you use 2.05 or 2.1g instead of 2.0. Absolutely not a good idea to use 2.5g, IMO. You want to break it in, set the tracking force as recommended and play records designed for cartridge break-in, e... | |
| The Cartridgeman Isolater. To add to this discussion, I have two words: RS-A1 tonearm. Altho the cartridge bolts to its headshell, the cartridge/headshell combo are deliberately decoupled from the tonearm in all planes of motion. Shouldn't work well or even decently, but do... | |
| Reference level playback Mechans, You made a mess of the spelling of "Narcisiscm", "aguement", and "ridgid" (sic). What would Freud say about that, I wonder? | |
| Opinions please Point about using a shop vac taken. But a good shop vac is not cost-free, either. I guess you can justify purchasing it for its many other uses. Really, an RCM just makes cleaning simpler and easier, due to the rotating platter which makes it easi... | |
| Opinions please Ditto the above. The major advantage of the VPI 16.5 is (relatively) low cost. The major disadvantage is the noise that it makes, which is pretty much like that of your vacuum cleaner. If you want the RCM to be in your listening room, you might wa... | |
| Wherefore Belt Drive? Johnnyb53, I agree with you; the stock suspension on my AR table was like a trampoline. The saving grace was that the tonearm base, platter bearing, (and probably the motor; not a good thing but a necessary thing) were all firmly in synch. | |
| Wherefore Belt Drive? Just for the record, regarding points (1) and (2), I was speaking strictly from an audiophile point of view. Among audiophiles, the AR tt was a BIG seller, even to buyers with big bucks (at least that's how I remember it), and among audiophiles, B... |