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Ok, it is bogus but no more bogus than anything else in “Ultimate Turntable” thread. Still, I like the notion, even though I have no idea if it might have any sonic consequences. I do not see the concept was used in turntable; perhaps the people who ...
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Hi Jan - I contacted the bearing manufacturer you linked me to. Here's their response:Thank you for your email. Sorry, I do not have the cross reference information for the bearing size your turntable requires. Please let me know if you can provid...
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Measet,The bearing oil on the RX-5000 should be replaced with a good low viscosity turbine oil, Zoomspark works well. When opening the bearing you will notice there is a steel thrust plate that will have a dimple on it, you can flip around and use th...
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This goes back to the discussion a few weeks ago of what these components' power supplies are "expecting" to see. They were built and tested with certain kinds of AC waveforms as input. If you give it something it was never tested with, the design ma...
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Romy, I get your point that it seems like the best and most likely application of your evaluation ideas would be exactly the “high-end” designers and manufacturers we are met to disparage. And this should be particularly true in the case of the...
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I was going to ask you about that funny looking damping material. Then you explained it at bottom of post. Very clever to use mouse pads! Lately I've been using cork & buna rubber sheets from McMaster-Carr. Seems to work m...
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The industry mechanism of making shekels on somebody stupidity works like clockwork.
When I last year I was writing my initial article of this thread about Mike Framer, kangaroo and the financial burden that all this industry cheerleading inflict I...
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Stitch, the very same what TechDas did with AF-1 took place
with Continuum. As they first time show up out of woods, they target $25K retail
and 15K to distributes. Then as the company gains publicity, means the few ordinary
systems begin to spin ...
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It is interesting to recall how audio started in my life. Somebody asked and I was puling out from my memories some unconnected fragments was really enjoying to recall those times…
I do not relay remember how old I was. I was then probably 10, as a...
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[quote user="TonyB"]I disagree. I think it depends on the turntable. If I did not try it on MY turntable, I would not believe. My Verdier uses a DC motor "sloppy" mounted on grommets. The drive is linen thread. I have tried silk, different threads, 1...
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[quote user="Stitch"] When you look at the data sheets, you see, that they have different Hz range with different weight. A reason why I added some more mass to my Micro which is sitting on a VP. [/quote]
Actually it is not my observation. In ...
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Today every Design (even the most stupid ones) will have - or have - a Fan group. High End Audio actually used to have a goal:
Perfect reproduction of the sound of real music performed in a real space. That was found difficult ...
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[quote user="Gregm"]I would agree. I'd feel that the objective of "audio journalism" (for wont of a better description) is entertainment -- not an "evaluation" that can be used for reference purposes.So, the components discussed/presented are simply ...
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A site visitor sent me email today:
"Just in case you have not seen the turntables we have manufactured for about 15 years.www.beercityaudio.com "
Ended the company looks like has two Turntables:
http://www.beercityaudio.com/index....
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The Federated Mike posted a set of the phonographs took at RMAF 2008 in Denver
http://www.audiofederation.com/hifiing/2008/RMAF2008/report/index.htm
I kid of do not like the pictures he did this year in past the images were much better. This year t...
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Dear gentlemen,My name is Frank Schröder and I'm the guy in the picture. It wasn't taken to show off anything, I actually noticed it after the fact.I came across this thread by accident and even though I realize that I may be better off forgetting ab...
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.... the usual marketing blubber. The more expensive a High end Product is, the more superlatives you need to make it superior to anything else. You want the big bucks? You need a big mouth first.but we all know how this business runs. What amazes me...
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1- Romy, a $200 microscope was shit 30 years ago when I bought mine and is still a piece of shit today. Manufacturing 5-10 SX-8000 type tables a year is inexpensive, its when you go to 50-100 units a year, AF1 market, that cost of operations escalate...
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Sorry, but I have to tell you that you do have it backwards on the skating forces. Just Google for a force diagram. Another way to know is to look at how the anti-skating force is applied in arms using the weight, pulley and monofilament line approac...
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Funny video from Acoustical systems and Wilson Benesch Turntable systems, lots of marketing hype in their presentation and finally the sound is dead crap.Wilson Benesch Marketing hype: "the future is carbon" finally you hear Crap tone from plastic co...
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Romy,
I wouldn't assume the ring material in the tube dampers to be sonically irrelevant. Polymer materials are viscoelastic, so should contribute to the damping effect, while a spring-like metal ring would have a more resonant behavior. In any ca...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Anyhow, start to record and you will love this processor even more.[/quote]I'd love to give this a go... I just need something worth recording!I have a good FM antenna on my roof and a half-decent tuner in the guise of a Ro...
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Hi Wellington,I have rebuilt the other table after living with both for several months of comparison. The oil comparisons were done over several months as well, granted the differences in oil viscosity well smaller compared to the other changes. The ...
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I think that I saw someone offering a silicon nitride thrust plate along with the ball bearing years ago. Jam, your solution of simply flipping the thrust plate upside down makes perfect sense, but I suppose a silicon nitride (or similarly hard) plat...
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I think most plastics have trouble with UV, and some fungi are pretty tough, anyway. The "idea" for me is to put the LP in a machine, turn it on, and return soon to a clean, dry LP that's ready to play on my turntable in my high-demands hi-fi system...
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[quote user="Paul S"]Interesting that problems Harley isolated in this case (pits and lands; turntable) were physical/mechanical, utimately "analog", in that sense. I'm glad someone has stayed after it, but not sure how to put this revelation to work...
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1. The less we have to fill in for the brain to reconstruct the original event, the better it will sound. This has been proven by psychologists for all of our senses. The closer to reality the sensation is, the less the brain has to work, the more re...
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Hi Guy,Thanks very much for providing me your insights on the SP10.I have to confess when I initially read your comments I could not help but be astounded that a person involved with a Brit belt driven, light weight, suspended turntable would be usin...
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[quote user="drdna"]G: This is the smallest in terms of space requirements. Slippage can be adjusted by moving the rotors further from the turntables (North-South on diagram) or moving the belts to the opposite side of the rotors. A...
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Going in circles is bad for your health. Just like every other thread on expensive gear, the name calling starts where the good reason stops.Regardless of how we calculate, 100K is artificial because there are people willing to pay it. It has NOTHIN...
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