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| Pani ... New ART-9 up and running ... I found this thread very useful when I contemplated a new cartridge and landed on the ART-9. A plea then to get back on topic so that it may prove useful to others thinking about cartridges.There are plenty of other venues to discuss electronic u... | |
| Phoenix Engineering Falcon and Eagle "Roadrunner was $234, now $400Falcon was $379, now $500."These current prices are via ebay. The same seller on Amazon is charging $300 for the Roadrunner. The Falcon is unavailable there. | |
| Pani ... New ART-9 up and running ... My experience with a new Art-9 was that it showed its basic attributes from day one. It has improved ever since. It replaced a Shelter 500 with SS OC retip in a VPI 3d arm, and outperformed the old cartridge right away. I mention the arm becaus... | |
| Phoenix Engineering Falcon and Eagle I think it depends upon what one thinks is necessary. Before the Roadrunner few people monitored TT speed carefully over periods of time. If nothing else, belts wear out or stretch. Then there is a bit of disagreement as to whether absolute spe... | |
| Phoenix Engineering Falcon and Eagle Roadrunner was $234, now $400Falcon was $379, now $500.Although the Falcon is "specified" for motors of 5 Watts or less it can actually run larger motors if properly heat-sinked. Do a Google search.Whether they still remain reasonable purchases as... | |
| Pani ... New ART-9 up and running ... Avanti1960,I use my Art-9 with a 12" VPI 3D arm. The arm has a 10.5 g. mass. No problem. In fact when I tested the resonance with a Shure test record I found no peak resonance at all. The arithmetic gives a theoretical answer, but the design o... | |
| Rhythmic L12 vs. SVS SB-1000 I use a "Rythmik" L12, bought after quite a bit of research. For a sealed 12" speaker I don't think its value can be beat and it can be made to operate seamlessly with almost any speaker. It is heavy for, among other things, it has a transformer... | |
| Cartridge help: Ortofon Cadenza vs. Soundsmith Paua "djfst-The nice thing is the mag drive can always be on the upgrade list."As it can be for many VPI TTs.Uniquely, though, the two motor flywheel is applicable to the Avenger. | |
| VPI TNT Turntables "I do find you have to be careful with vpi, a lot of their changes were made to lower manufacturing costs and marketed as "better" Though you may consider this a distinction without a difference, a number of changes may have been made to keep p... | |
| Cartridge for VPI Classic 3 SE I suggest you look at the Audiogon thread on the Audio Technica Art-9. | |
| VPI TNT Turntables Like I said, I’m no engineer, but:Lets assume that the platter speed is affected by the stylus drag, which itself varies according to the music being played. As there is no equivalent drag on the flywheel, small as it may be, it can contribute to ... | |
| VPI TNT Turntables Flywheel speed?I'm not an engineer. Why don't you buy or borrow a VPI flywheel and try it yourself? I'm not the only one to observe this; see analogluvr above. As all TNTs (I think) came with a speed controller of some sort, anyone who has adde... | |
| VPI TNT Turntables analogluvr,I went from the spring suspension directly to the squash ball one and it was a noticeable and trouble free improvement. (Though HW says that the squash balls give only 95% of the benefit of the air bladders.) | |
| VPI TNT Turntables luca58,Just two additional points. Another source of information, if you have not found it yet, is the VPI forum: http://vpiindustries.com/forum/index.phpThe VPI TNT you will find is probably going to be a used unit since they are no longer bein... | |
| VPI TNT Turntables "What was the biggest improvement you perceived when using a flywheel?"Quite similar to the improvement gained by using a speed controller. More of the same. |