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    What Cartridge(s) Is Everyone Using

    You could ask him which $20,000 cartridges he’s heard and in what context. I currently have a Goldring 1042 and a Transfiguration Proteus rebuilt by Ana Mighty Sound with a Gyger S stylus (my choice) so the same profile. The comparison is interesting. My two decks are an Artemis SA-1 and a...
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    Most vinyl-sounding DAC?

    I recently got round to listening to a Denon 103 for the first time and it brought to mind the Rega DACr I used a few years back as a stopgap. We’re obviously not talking top drawer vinyl or digital here but that wasn’t the question. They share a certain point of view that eschews fine detail...
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    What's Your Favorite Irish Whiskey

    Redbreast 21 so far, not Middleton certainly.
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    Can a Technics SL-1200G challenge the state of the art?

    You can take a Lenco idler drive a long way with modifications, I have a PTP at the moment with a solid bamboo plinth, but how far can a Technics go? There’s OMA’s cast iron plinthed SL10 for an example, not heard one myself nor the SL1000. Are the guts of an SO1200 G amenable to replinthing?
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    What turntables do you use? Pictures would be nice as well :-)

    Just finished my PTP Lenco. and sounding very good indeed. I took inspiration for the plinth from my Artemis SA-1 which I had apart last year to get some more oil in the motor bearings. While I was in there I noted that the layer of ebony is only a 1mm strip around the outside but there...
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    The WBF humor and joke thread.

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    What Cartridge(s) Is Everyone Using

    Talking of Stanley Engineering… I’m using one of their snakewood SPU N series spacers on my Royal at the moment. Comparing the Royal N with Ortofon’s spacer on a Korf headshell to the SPU Century I find the Century gives more of the musical interplay while the Royal has more scale and dynamics...
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    Help to identify arm board and arms it can accommodate

    This is the template for the SME compatible mount for a Korf SF9R if you want to check the hole spacings. SME themselves want to sell their template but the Groovemaster one has the same hole positions.
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    Why are the WBF servers so slow? PLEASE READ FOR FINAL UPDATED ANNOUNCEMENT

    I just assumed it was all the adverts they have to load so just the price we pay for the site’s existence.
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    EMT - JSD series Carts

    When you go to their pickup heads (Tondose) rather than the 1/2” mount cartridges EMT offer a range of outputs. “Besides the standard EMT tonearm-connection, we offer the option INT (Ortofon A compatible) and option X (for SME standard). Furthermore, we manufacture 1/2 and 1/4 coil for lower...
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    Mono Cartridges

    A 1956 issue of Klemperer Eroica is sounding nicely full bodied with my SPU Century (Shibata) and the mono button on my preamp.
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    Mono Cartridges

    There is at least one mono record in my collection, though I forget which and haven’t happened on it again, that sounds terrible with the Decca’s spherical stylus and much better with the Replicant 100 on my SPU Royal N using the mono switch. Most mono cuts, even old ones, are preferable on the...
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    Mono Cartridges

    You’d think that the grooves on a modern mono cut would be flat as vertical movement is under control and they don’t have the frying bacon background noise with a stereo pickup that is common from an original mono cutter but my groove jumping Decca suggests otherwise for at least some of them...
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    Mono Cartridges

    I’ve been using a London Decca Maroon mono variant for a while now. Vertical compliance is rather lower than horizontal. Used on old mono cuts it was fine in a Naim Aro but put it on a modern mono disc like the Schnabel Beethoven box sets and it jumps out of the groove. Moving it to my 18g...
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    German Physiks Unicorn: An alternate take on single driver speakers. Did you ever have a chance to audition it? What did you think?

    I’m unlikely to use DSP either. You make it sound similar to a band pass filter with adjustable roll off at the top end. Presumably there is some phase shift too where it rolls off, though since you’re overlapping with the delayed rear radiation from the horn that might be no bad thing. How are...
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    German Physiks Unicorn: An alternate take on single driver speakers. Did you ever have a chance to audition it? What did you think?

    I believe there a correction for non linearity implemented either in the digital or analogue domaine on differing sides of the amplifier for the Unicorns, which do you use and how do they sound without,? If they can be played safely like that. I was quite intrigued by these a year or so ago...
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    Two listeners

    Another way to do it is with omnis if you have the width to keep them at leat a metre from the side walls. Devels, MBLs and Avantages Audio Césars have all pulled this trick in my hearing but it’s a different presentation.
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    Two listeners

    Sumiko Masterset (do a search) claims to lead to a wide sweet spot or even a walk around image. It helps to use something that slides under the speakers as you’re moving the a couple of mm at a time towards the end, I have Herbie’s small gliders and a tiled floor. I’ve almost got a stable...
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    Anti Skating?

    Overhang and offset might just be linked somehow if you’re hitting the null points you’re trying for.
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    Does anybody hear difference with a coffee table in place?

    If you have to suffer a coffee table between you and the speakers, can you ameliorate the effect slightly by cluttering it up to break up reflections? I’m very adept at this.
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    SUT and/or phono stage for My Sonic Lab Signature Gold cartridge

    Not a Perfect Match then, unless it performs better in a system context. Beyond me I’m afraid. I like my Naim superline a lot with the top ps option but I’ve just had a lesson in just how sensitive it is to loading resistor, something you dodge entirely with a current stage. No idea how it...
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    SUT and/or phono stage for My Sonic Lab Signature Gold cartridge

    Internal impedance 1.4?, Do you have a current based one? Doesn’t look a bad match.
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    Schroder CB users...Question about tuning this arm??

    François, does the cartridge plate to headshell screw’s tightness have as big an influence on the CB as it does on the Reference? I’ve found paying close attention to this and the counterweight grub screw are critical in getting the best out of the magnet and string pivot arm.
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    Phono cables - the most sensitive and critical cable in your system

    Does it make sense to anyone that resistance loading preference would shift a bit with cable capacitance? Moving to the low capacitance Lyra Phonopipe the loading on my Naim Superline for an SPU Royal N where a piano really sings has shifted from 220? to 160?. 10? lower and 20? higher, which...
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    New Miyajima Madake questions and impressions....

    Looks like the certal cartridge plate, there is a brass one available that will increase the effective mass another 5g or so.
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    How Many Switches . . .

    My amps stay on but the turntable goes off overnight and gets covered. For digital it’s all controlled from the ipad, except the volume, that would need another cable from streamer to pre and I haven’t bothered, nothing to switch on though.
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    Disapointong record purchase.

    I wanted to complete the set of Byron era Uriah Heap albums. Ordered the three missing ones them from Amazon but failed to spot they were picture discs, just didn’t occur to me that they could be. Horribly noisy replay from all of them but just about OK in mono. Can’t be bothered with sending...
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    advice sought, turntables $10-20k

    Yes I rather liked the Dohmann too, just out of reach when I heard it and now well out of reach since the price increase. None of his other decks quite grabbed me as much. Still the Artemis is working well after re-oiling so no need to consider a replacement now and the PTP I’m building is just...
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    advice sought, turntables $10-20k

    Vinyl in Paris brings Ana Mighty Sound to mind, probably worth contacting them to arrange a session listening to a few decks including the PTP ones. Also consider a Well Tempered Versalex if coming from a Linn but I don’t know where to find those in Paris. My now retired UK dealer abandoned his...
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    What Cartridge(s) Is Everyone Using

    There is a certain temptation and a lot easier to indulge than with Koetsus.

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