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+2 Mike's products are top notch.
The bearing and platter upgrades were pretty dramatic when I installed mine. It's been almost a year now since I did the upgrades and I've been floored at the performance I'm getting, music has never been as enjoyable as its been the last year. I now no longer need to focus at all on turntable performance and I can focus completely on upgrades in other parts of my system.
Hi Dave
thank you for your comments.
It does not seem like a year since I delivered the upgrades to you.
Now that interest has subsided somewhat, I have asked Marco if he can substitute this thread as the sticky thread for the Mike New bearing.
As I believe that with 120 pages and thousands of comments, it represents the upgrade efforts and thinking of very many competent and qualified contributors besides myself, and covering a period of about 6 years.
It would be sad and a loss to all those that may come later seeking help and info on the upgrades available and which they can do themselves.
if this thread were to slowly be lost in time.
Hi Folks,
Two lucky and discerning audiophiles have just received their Bearings in time for the festive season.
I have had 2 further enquiries and now have only 3 available which may be the very last.
I read with interest and amusement the magical effects of bolting lumps of brass onto a standard die-cast bearing which incidentally
does not have a a syntered oil bearing. It has just a plain piece of brass drilled and reamed to loosely fit the stainless steel shaft.
It is to my mind about like polishing the gears on the clockwork motor of a wind up gramaphone.
There is no rigidity of any kind to justify messing about with it, 5 years of experience has proven this.
You know, instead of passive-aggressively whining about someone else's efforts to serve a different price point, maybe you should just let the product and satisfied customers speak for themselves. These constant digs at users of this forum make you seem petty, bitter, and insecure in your own product's ability to fully compete. It's like if VPI got annoyed with U-Turn. Jeez, man. Give it a rest.
I do love it when people get upset!!!
I am only stating a few facts. as the informed and active interest of those over the past few years would attest.
Hardly upset. Your success or not means nothing to me.
I just find it embarrassing seeing a supposed professional so easily threatened by a diy project that they need to inject no-so-subtle digs into every comment made. It makes me question whether your product is actually any good either. You clearly have too little faith in it.
You should go and have a cold shower old boy, your sanctimonious observation really are amusing.
I am only offering opinions on engineering mods according to my past and extensive experience,
in order that others may be guided by my observations and save their money.
Just as in earlier times when others here made silly claims, obviously before you time.
Mike , You call it you opinion , However it reads like you are having a pop at the " Other maker " and trying to put people off Oh and I have 3 bearings left " So buy these instead " " They may be the last " how many times have we heard this in the past few years
Why not design a unique arm or a range of record weights or a cost affective arm / cart set up protractor ?
Move on Mike ;)
Hi Al,
It's good to hear from you again.
Yes that's my problem, I continually have to make additional small batches to satisfy those people who unlike yourself,
embrace the ultimate in Bearing precision and performance.
Do go back over the 120 pages of this thread to appreciate what I am saying, and the observations of the many other informed people.
LMAO! Jesus, you're thin-skinned.