id like to try my decca with a unipivot so with that in mind what have you got?
id like to try my decca with a unipivot so with that in mind what have you got?
My System
John Wood KT88 Amp.
Paradise Phono Stage
Sony TTS-8000 Turntable.
PMAT-1010 MK6 Tonearm.
Ortofon Cadenza Bronze
Sony X555ES Cd Player
Yamaha NS1000m Speakers
Make sure it can balance out the Decca. It's heavy.
It is impossible for anything digital to sound analogue, because it isn't analogue!
good point,you can probably tell im having a made moment,im sure the alphason is fine for the decca,perhaps trying thicker damping fluid in the trough would be a more sensible approach?
My System
John Wood KT88 Amp.
Paradise Phono Stage
Sony TTS-8000 Turntable.
PMAT-1010 MK6 Tonearm.
Ortofon Cadenza Bronze
Sony X555ES Cd Player
Yamaha NS1000m Speakers
Is it sounding good? If so, you shouldn't need heavier damping.
It is impossible for anything digital to sound analogue, because it isn't analogue!
The only tracking test you need to worry about is the tracking of the cannon 'crack' on the Telarc's "Tchaikovsky 1812". If one looks at the record groove it undergoes a near right angle kink at that point. My Decca tracks it though.
Barry
Location: Near Saffron Walden, Essex
Posts: 7,142
I'm Dave.
I wouldn't swop an Alphason for a Hadcock or Mayware.
Having given it a bit of thought, I can't think of any unipivot arm I'd want.
Apart from maybe the original Decca International, with the metal headshell and long pillar with opposing magnets in. I had one many years ago (when they were still being made) and liked it. I didn't think much of the later ones without the magnetic levitation and the nasty 'Connoisseur' plastic headshell with the spirit level in it.
It is impossible for anything digital to sound analogue, because it isn't analogue!
Location: HAMPSTEAD
Posts: 1,156
I'm brian.
Decca themselves recommend a unipivot arm. I ve been incredibly pleased with my mayware tonearm over the last 6 months
of ownership in partnership with the decca gold, clarity is superb and very moosical as well !. In fact one chappie on this forum a few years back
said in 35 years of listening with various arms on his decca he favoured the mayware above everything else, magical he called it.
I had a technoarm before and never could get it sounding like the mayware.