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    Quote Originally Posted by jamie123 View Post
    here's an idea,why dont we all chip in a buy it for forum members to use,it can be passed around and used between members and when not in use can be sent back to a mod or marco if they are in agreement,that way we get a expensive product for a little outlay??
    At rate some here change carts, it would never be out of their house. not naming any names like.
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    personally it seems to easy to use for me,i like to take at least 3 days to set my cartridge up,i love the tension headaches and constant going round in circles,its not right until my fingers and eyes bleed!
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    no off centre sibilants (my pet hate)

    This comment interests me as I sometimes get this but not on all LP's
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    Quote Originally Posted by jamie123 View Post
    personally it seems to easy to use for me,i like to take at least 3 days to set my cartridge up,i love the tension headaches and constant going round in circles,its not right until my fingers and eyes bleed!

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    Quote Originally Posted by jamie123 View Post
    i like to take at least 3 days to set my cartridge up,i love the tension headaches and constant going round in circles,its not right until my fingers and eyes bleed!
    Takes me about ten minutes!
    It is impossible for anything digital to sound analogue, because it isn't analogue!

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    Quote Originally Posted by walpurgis View Post
    Takes me about ten minutes!
    yeah but your ears are f**ked!
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    Quote Originally Posted by walpurgis View Post
    Takes me about ten minutes!
    Same here. Its not rocket science.. well maybe 15 these days .
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    Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?

    “Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".

    “You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”

    "You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”

    “There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”


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    Quote Originally Posted by Audio Al View Post
    no off centre sibilants (my pet hate)

    This comment interests me as I sometimes get this but not on all LP's
    This is sometimes an issue with the recording but more often than not it's a sign that alignment, azimuth is off slightly.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ammonite Acoustics View Post
    My hosting provider is a little slow, but my website loads up fine for me. Take a look at Michael Fremer's article at http://www.analogplanet.com/content/...fPvdaFdZFqH.97 which shows the respective distortion plots. I'll disagree with his ultimate preference for Lofgren B over UNI-DIN - to my ears UNI-DIN gives a slightly preferable sound. UNI-DIN is only available using a SMARTractor, though, unless you care to reverse-engineer Acoustical Systems' calculations.
    Thanks Hugo. Looking at the distortion curves, I'll stick to using the Baervald (Loefgren 'A') prescription, as the distortion never exceeds (in the example show) 0.4%, whereas the UNI-DIN prescription causes the value to peak to 0.6%. It is, however a better method than Loefgren 'B', so I agree with you concerning Michael Fremer's preference.
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    If anyone is intersted, there is more about this on my Odyssey Tonearms blog.
    Look at the post on the Dennesen Sountractor (the Smartractor is a clone of this) and the post on Arm formulae from alignment nulls, and the one on Spindle sizes and small variations in overhang and offset.
    John

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