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| Cartridge around $2K help. My vote would be for the Voice. I similarly wanted a less pricey cartridge to use in lieu of my ZYX Universe and Koetsu Jade, so I picked up a Voice. To my surprise ZYX and Koetsu ended up being relegated to the the drawer. The Voice is my new Ref... | |
| Turntable speed accuracy Correct speed with 500 arms? That is not a helpful statement since we don't know what the definition of "correct speed" is. What matters is to reduce the effect of a single stylus to below audibility. I don't think that anyone has been able to qua... | |
| Turntable speed accuracy In absolute terms there is no such thing as perfect speed stability. There is always a finite amount of instability. It's like saying a surface is smooth. A smooth surface looks like a mountain range under a microscope.So the right question is wha... | |
| Why Use Aluminum for a TT Platter? Cogging is measured as torque ripple. It is the amount of variation in the developed torque as the motor rotates. A single phase AC motor by definition has 100% torque ripple since at the zero crossing of the waveform no toque is generated. DC mot... | |
| Why Use Aluminum for a TT Platter? Livemusic, Yes Cocobolo is still the best platter material I have heard, but Garolite sounds nearly identical and is far less expensive.Tbone, Coreless, slotless motors have very low cogging, but it is not zero. A top quality DD table is remarkabl... | |
| Why Use Aluminum for a TT Platter? In my experience aluminum is not the best platter material. But there are good reasons that it is common and popular. It is easy to machine, reasonably inexpensive and when layered with another material or at least a good mat it performs quite wel... | |
| magnetic drive turntables Hiho, The turntable you describe is actually less like direct drive than belt drive. The advantage of direct drive is that there is no compliant medium between the motor and the platter. In this case you have a traditional belt driving the sub-pla... | |
| Why do old tubes sound better than current tubes? I suspect that the aging process may have something to do with this. I have a number of very old globe tubes along with the newer equivalents with ST shape bottles. I consistently have found that the old globe tubes sound better. I doubt that the ... | |
| Where to go from a Shelter 901 Mk1. I suggest taking a look at the Soundsmith Voice. I have owned a couple shelters, Crown Jewel SE and 901. I like the Crown Jewel a lot more than the 901 and the Voice is head and shoulders above the Crown Jewel. In fact the Voice displaced a ZYX Un... | |
| to volume pot or not to volume pot If you can't hear the difference with a pot and an extra inch of wire in the path then maybe your system/ears are not very resolving.Having said that the flexibility of having the volume pot still may be well worth the price. Having the option of ... | |
| Azimuth observations and importance I am a proponent of using your ears rather than instrumentation for adjusting azimuth. There seems to be a lot of angst about getting this adjustment "right". I assert that "right" is when it sounds best, regardless of what the technical parameter... | |
| Best TT plinth material, cost no object Odd that so many people fail to consider the significant vibrational energy that is being created by the stylus, enough energy that you can hear it. An electron microscope base may just make sure that the energy has no where to go. Acoustic energy... | |
| Direct Drive turntables Raul, I don't think that the measurement vs listening argument is about accuracy vs tastes. Take for an example an early 70's solid state amplifier. Those amps were made in the height of meter watching. They excel at the measurements that you freq... | |
| Direct Drive turntables J2468, No aversion to measurements here. It's just that I tend to put more trust in our ears.I find the propensity to associate stylus drag with slippage curious. Although there will always be some amount of slippage with any friction drive (Mark ... | |
| Direct Drive turntables Pryso, It depends on what you are trying to accomplish. If you want to get an accurate understanding of the sonic affect of a particular component then you want everything else to remain constant. In this case it's about gaining understanding and ... |