mijostyn
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| Turntable Isolation I hate to say I told you so. Sorry about that. I guess I did not comment until after you had ordered the Townsend. All those feet thingies are also garbage. To properly isolate a turntable the suspension needs to be tuned below 3 hz, three bounces... | |
| Planar Speakers and Diffusors Hi Ozzy, I have been using Line source Dipoles (planars) since 1978. I owned Apogee Divas for 6 years. I currently use Sound Labs ESLs. You are headed in the right direction, but someone fed you the wrong information. Line source dipoles radi... | |
| Schroder Tonearms - where do I purchase? are there authorized sellers in US? @wrm57 When we talk about tonearm resonance and damping nobody is thinking about a resonating counterweight aside from the fact that thin coatings do not do much. As for Long Arms, Schroder will not make an arm longer than 11" He feels that is ma... | |
| Schroder Tonearms - where do I purchase? are there authorized sellers in US? @wrm57 That is the kind of marketing that drives me nuts because people have a hard time understanding what they are saying and assume it must be true. The resonance that concerns us most with tonearms is that between the mass of the arm and the ... | |
| Absorption of digital hash @ptss That plate is Permalloy. It has magnetic properties similar to Mu metal but is much less ductile. Mu metal can be formed easily into various shapes. I have digital equipment all around analog gear and I don't have to shield anything. I do ... | |
| Schroder Tonearms - where do I purchase? are there authorized sellers in US? That is correct @jymc. The Origin live arms fit nicely on the Cosmos. The Agile is a nice arm, but I prefer the Schroder. The CB's vertical and horizontal effective mass are almost identical and it's magnetic antiskating is more effective than a w... | |
| 15k USD Speakers for Classical and Pop Extended Listening, Near setup, Low volume Sound Labs 545' | |
| Getting into vinyl for the first time Time and time again I have set up systems and when the customer compares "high resolution" streaming like Qobuz to a local 24/96 file of the same recording they are shocked at the poor quality of the streaming. It is no surprise that the vinyl als... | |
| My end game speaks. I have a friend with Magico 7s powered my 300 watt Mac mono amps. They play loud enough for anyone. You will have no problem. He also uses subwoofers, but I would listen first. If the bass is satisfactory for you I would leave well enough alone. I... | |
| Anti-Skat on the EAT F-Note Tonearm @jasonbourne71 And If I were you I would throw those tonearms away or put them up on a shelf for display. There is no such thing as accurate antiskating, but having it is WAY better than not. Without it you will constantly mistrack the left channe... | |
| Anti-Skat on the EAT F-Note Tonearm @drrsutliff is correct. The problem is not your antiskating. There is something else wrong. Check to see if you can swing the arm over the spindle. If you hit a hard stop something is blocking inward travel of the arm and it is hopping out of the ... | |
| Turntable Isolation There are only two platforms that will work reliably, the MinusK and the Vibraplane. This assumes that your equipment rack or cabinet is laterally stable. Movement straight up and down is easy for the tonearm to handle. Lateral or sideways deflect... | |
| Audio Racks, Just How beneficial? looking for guidance in upgrading @erik_squires There are many topics to deal with in audio, You seem to be stuck on room acoustics. Room acoustics are important. The best way to deal with it is to build a room specifically for sound reproduction and the vast majority of us are st... | |
| Audio Racks, Just How beneficial? looking for guidance in upgrading I reviewed the Bassoconuinuo website. The scientific approach? Not so much. As with everything Italian it is all about style. This type of construction is inherently flimsy because it has no solid back or sides. The uprights in my cabinet are all ... | |
| Audio Racks, Just How beneficial? looking for guidance in upgrading OK, There is only one piece of equipment that requires special attention and that is the turntable. It has to be at a comfortable height for you to work with on a shelf as sturdy as you can make it. Vertical racks are not optimal. The reason is th... |