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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #31: From a physics perspective... by chaslieb on 2016-01-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Copper Mat on a Micro Seiki Gun Metal Platter in Analog Playback  122 Replies 
I don't understand why people are using the flywheel with the same thread coming off the motor to go around both the turntable platter and the flywheel.  I also don't get why the flywheel is supposed to be used with a slipping thread at all.  To make...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #153: Oh, David, come on, do not bullshit a bullshitter. by Romy the Cat on 2014-05-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ultimate Turntable in Analog Playback  220 Replies 
Oh, David, come on! Can you for a second to stop to be a pretentious been counter and look at the picture from slightly more elevated perspective? I am glad that you do not worship the expensive parts, unique design, and precession of construction of...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Oh, God! When idiots stop to post at my site?! by Romy the Cat on 2012-12-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Holly Proscenium idiocy! in Analog Playback  23 Replies 
[quote user="TheOptimist"]I've been reading these comments for years now, and it's getting pretty tired. So I think it's about time someone spoke up. I've done some work with Mr. Walker, I know the guy, and most importantly, I've ACTUALLY HEAR...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: How much does it cost to stabilize a turntable speed? by Romy the Cat on 2010-03-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How much does it cost to stabilize a turntable speed? in Analog Playback  0 Replies 
Anyone who has more than a superficial experience with better turntables knows that speed stability is not the subject that civilized people shall even mention.  Any turntables shall stabilize speed of disc rotation at the point that it is not au...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #57: Late to the discussion but cannot resist by rickmcinnis on 2014-01-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Foolishness of Analog People in Analog Playback  56 Replies 
If Romy told me to buy a turntable I would buy it.To think someone would take the advice of Michael Fremer over Mr. Besnow boggles my mind.The above turntable has to be the most vulgar absurdity I have ever seen....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: DIY TT by perrew on 2010-01-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Audio Note new turntable and inflation in Analog Playback  14 Replies 
This is the most extreme ive seen so far.http://www.oobject.com/most-extreme-turntables/baasner-turntable/339/ ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #155: Bean counting? by dkarmeli on 2014-05-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ultimate Turntable in Analog Playback  220 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Oh, David, come on! Can you for a second to stop to be a pretentious been counter and look at the picture from slightly more elevated perspective? I am glad that you do not worship the expensive parts, unique design, and pr...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Korvet turntable. by Romy the Cat on 2008-11-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Here is my new tonearm. in Analog Playback  9 Replies 
I usually do not do those “fetish trips” but here I think it might be educational for Western readers as it is slightly different. I got an email with a like to a clip that you might like.  It is Russian-made turntable Korvet -038, from which I ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Paul, it was said not by Michelson but Mencken by Romy the Cat on 2022-12-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Jonathan Weiss Introduces New High-End TT! in Audio News  11 Replies 
It is very interesting to hear this idiot pontificate about turntable able reproduce element of time in music. Some years back when I visited him, I played to him Tchaikovsky 6 symphony that he never heard, and after listening to the 1st movement ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1076: I think it is purely your issue. by Romy the Cat on 2013-01-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
[quote user="SOS "]First as stated before, when I 1st received the unit no hum issue it was after it was sent back twice that it came about. 2nd if I use my other conditioner, a Purist Audio Design all is dead quite. The humming out of the speakers s...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: If does not say "Air Bearing". by Romy the Cat on 2011-11-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Tritium Turntables in Analog Playback  9 Replies 
I mean the way how they call their turntable is absolutely irrelevant, they can call it antigravity bearing but it does not mean anything. They do state that the turntable has air-suspended tonearm; which is fine and common for liner arms. They howev...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Audio Note new turntable and inflation by tokyo john on 2010-01-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Audio Note new turntable and inflation in Analog Playback  14 Replies 
Audio Note has released a turntable called the Ginga which costs 60 thousand US dollars in Japan. (if you google Audio Note Ginga images you will find it very easily).My first reaction was pure cynicism, as Audio Note does traditionally price its pro...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #51: Keep on goin' by Stitch on 2011-07-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Michael Fremer Continuums… in Audio News  54 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] It is incredibly rare that an audio makers can express pure and unadulterated interest in Sound, interest that is wider and then boundary of own product or own field. [/quote]I agree, I met maybe only 1 or 2 who really kne...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Micro seiki SX-8000 Air flaoting problem by musicomm on 2016-12-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Micro seiki SX-8000 Air flaoting problem in Analog Playback  3 Replies 
Hi, I am an analogue mania so naturally I love turntable. I have acquired a Microseiki SX-8000 several month before and found it had speed irregularity. I thought first, the motor might be the problem but soon found there were scratch sound on the...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Another possibility? by rowuk on 2014-10-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Bass impact on Turntable: how to estimate objectively in Analog Playback  4 Replies 
I recorded the LPs (Bruckner7-TeDeum Concertgebouw/Haitink, Also Sprach Zarathustra Chicago/Reiner - 1954) to digital. Then I lowered the stylus on to the record, but did not have the turntable turning. I played the digital copy at a bit more than my...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: SME M2-12 tonearm by Romy the Cat on 2004-07-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: SME M2-12 tonearm in Analog Playback  10 Replies 
It is always difficult objectively deal with tonearms. The tonearms is very difficult subject, performance of which might be severally masked by thousands associative parameters. However, the biggest problem is that it is imposable to talk with peopl...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Re: Ultimate Turntable some alternatives. by guy sergeant on 2004-08-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ultimate Turntable in Analog Playback  220 Replies 
The Ultimate turntable only needs to provide for one arm. The ultimate arm. Why compromise its performance with various inferior arm designs. I'm not sure that high mass is necessarily a good thing.  Yes it stores a large amount of kinetic ener...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: Michelle Fremer’s lobotomy. by Romy the Cat on 2006-01-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Michael Fremer Continuums… in Audio News  54 Replies 
When I wrote my article: “Disregard the industry participants” http://www.goodsoundclub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=930 my primary objectives were exactly the subject of  irreversible and unavoidable feedback-damage that the participants of the i...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Fluid Drive Turntable by Lbjefferies7 on 2008-11-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Dynamic viscose stabilization of turntable’s platter. in Analog Playback  15 Replies 
Great minds think along the same lines.  A couple of days ago, I was thinking of a fluid driven turntable platter.  What I was thinking was to have a plinth with spiral grooves cut into it.  The platter (perhaps with radial groove...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Ultimate Turntable by Romy the Cat on 2004-05-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ultimate Turntable in Analog Playback  220 Replies 
I would like to dedicate this thread to collection of the ideas and thoughts what might/should manifest an “Ultimate Turntable”. I know many of so-called “good” turntables and I REALLY appreciate none of them. Why an “ultimate turntable never was bui...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Tonearms criterias?? by Muse on 2008-02-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Tonearms criterias?? in Analog Playback  1 Replies 
Hi,I will buy my second tonearm as an addition to the one (Alphason HR100S) I'm using. I didn't have the opportunity to listen and compare any of the good tonearms that is being reviewed as good (??) by the audio society and to be honest I don't have...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Very rare in High End Equipment by Stitch on 2009-12-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Is better than Kinetic Systems’ Vibraplane? in Analog Playback  3 Replies 
I thought, it would be for you :-) but I think, it is (or was) below your level... The discussion was about a German Raven Turntable and what next Turntable should be chosen when the owner don't want to have it anymore....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #92: Who were the Micro Designers? by Romy the Cat on 2012-05-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ultimate Turntable in Analog Playback  220 Replies 
[quote user="Stitch"]The Designer of that Turntable is Mr. Hideaki Nishikawa who made the Seiki Turntables.The Turntable also shows former Seiki features like the heavy Platter and Vacuum System.[/quote] Hm, Stitch. I do not know the history of the c...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #164: Don't buy it! by dkarmeli on 2014-05-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ultimate Turntable in Analog Playback  220 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] dkarmeli wrote:If the rest of the setup is up scratch then all you get is the recording and you'll forget about they system. Your body and mind will relax and allow you to have the same emotional connection with the music ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Three turntables by zako on 2011-06-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Playing third cartridge backwards. in Analog Playback  3 Replies 
I never did like the use of two or three arms on one turntable...I use two turntables,,I find that most convenient,,and less chance of an accident....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: Annual polar bear hunt & $60,000 turntable by misnacat on 2010-01-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Audio Note new turntable and inflation in Analog Playback  14 Replies 
Stitch here in Canada there is drastic change taking place, there are many secrets and unknown facts about Canada, don't ask an American about Canada....Example, No longer is the annual polar bear hunt in Toronto taking place, I miss that,  also putt...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #44: The best pickup - is a pickup by rowuk on 2013-12-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Mastodont DIY Rack: Wall Mount? in Audio Discussions  68 Replies 
Hi N,I just use my turntable, arm and cartridge to measure the effects of vibrations. Don't turn the platter on, drop the cartridge into a groove and your phono corrector output will tell you everything that you need to know - as it would happen duri...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: Some shades of the Micro Seiki’s bonsai. by Romy the Cat on 2006-02-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Foolishness of Analog People in Analog Playback  56 Replies 
Recently, since I‘m doing some remodeling of my turntable, there was some noise on my site about Micro Seiki turntables. I really do not want to push my site toward to becoming one of the typical audio fetish sites but in context of this thread I wou...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Re: Michael Fremer Responds to Romy the pussy by Mr. "Framer" on 2006-01-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Michael Fremer Continuums… in Audio News  54 Replies 
I really enjoyed reading an ignorant rant by someone who has probably neither heard the Continuum turntable, nor who is willing to say anything substantive about its design, yet he's more than happy to mock me and the people who designed and built th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #75: G10 nightmare & xover by serenechaos on 2008-12-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s MiniMe or about Pilot Acoustic Systems in Audio Discussions  213 Replies 
G10 also makes a nasty mess after you've cut it, get's all over the machine, fine "stuff" in the fluid...  nasty to work with unless the end justifys the means.  so it's fun to bitch @ anyone wanting to use it, that the only thing gain...
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