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Apr 1, 2024 21:23:57 GMT
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Post by lurch on Apr 1, 2024 21:23:57 GMT
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Post by rexton on Apr 12, 2024 19:37:47 GMT
Thanks for the piccies, and many apologies for the late reply. What's the underside of the plinth made from?
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Apr 13, 2024 3:32:31 GMT
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Post by lurch on Apr 13, 2024 3:32:31 GMT
Layers of 20mm or 25mm mdf with solid walnut cladding.
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Post by rexton on Apr 22, 2024 18:27:47 GMT
The Garrard 301 Restoration Project PT XXXXIV - More Tom Tweakery! It's been a little while since I posted anything about the 301. I'm actually listening to some Monk on my 401/SME V-12/Shure M55E/EAR 834 clone setup for a change. The 301 is having some more work done on it so may as well give the 401 a spin. The latest mods have been based around trying to reduce vibration further into the 301 by using some feet I purchased from ebay years ago. These feet are nicely milled aluminium adjustable jobbies which sit on some ball bearings. Here's a quick pickie of the 301 having cleaning and fettling, this is a ritual that I always perform if I'm modding the 301, it keeps all the intrinsic clean. It's not a thing of beauty but it gets the job done. And now just a quick picture of how the new feet look after installation, I've still not properly levelled everything at this stage so the feet may look a little wonky. .
The jury is still out. Sometimes I think they are beneficial and other times I'm not so sure. I still have the bamboo feet I made kicking around so nothing lost and nothing gained if they don't work out. I must admit to being very pleasently surprised by the performance of the 401. It makes a nice change to sometimes listen to different decks and carts. As always stay tuned.
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Post by antonio on Apr 23, 2024 6:16:03 GMT
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Post by brucew268 on Apr 23, 2024 12:34:43 GMT
It's not a thing of beauty but it gets the job done. And now just a quick picture of how the new feet look after installation, I've still not properly levelled everything at this stage so the feet may look a little wonky. .
The jury is still out. Sometimes I think they are beneficial and other times I'm not so sure. I still have the bamboo feet I made kicking around so nothing lost and nothing gained if they don't work out. I must admit to being very pleasently surprised by the performance of the 401. It makes a nice change to sometimes listen to different decks and carts. As always stay tuned. Does the bearing sit in a long curvature "bowl", or in a curve only slightly larger than the bearing itself, or the bearing is held securely from moving? Only the first option is likely to have good horizontal isolating effect.
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Post by antonio on Apr 23, 2024 13:25:04 GMT
If you copy and paste my link into a new tab it seems to work.
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Post by rexton on Apr 24, 2024 19:02:38 GMT
It's not a thing of beauty but it gets the job done. And now just a quick picture of how the new feet look after installation, I've still not properly levelled everything at this stage so the feet may look a little wonky. .
The jury is still out. Sometimes I think they are beneficial and other times I'm not so sure. I still have the bamboo feet I made kicking around so nothing lost and nothing gained if they don't work out. I must admit to being very pleasently surprised by the performance of the 401. It makes a nice change to sometimes listen to different decks and carts. As always stay tuned. Does the bearing sit in a long curvature "bowl", or in a curve only slightly larger than the bearing itself, or the bearing is held securely from moving? Only the first option is likely to have good horizontal isolating effect. It sits in a curve slightly larger than the bearing. So probably not the best but maybe not the worst!
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Post by rexton on Apr 28, 2024 18:31:23 GMT
Sunday Night - Update Night - Shure Adventures Pt IX - Digging this 70's MM
Welcome back to an occasional series of updates regarding my ever ongoing fun and messing around with old Shure Cartridges. So, I have decided the Shure M44 is just too bright in my system and shall now remain in my collection of vintage curios. I just could not get on with the M44-7 no matter how hard I tried. So, the M55E will be my vintage Shure cartridge of reference and yes I do realise that technically better cartridges exist in the Shure line up. I'm still to try the vast majority of the other cartridges but I'm Shure i'll get around to it at some point. I've so far done the V15 mk III and the SC35C. To my ears the M55E is such a great little cartridge that can be tweaked and pushed to high levels of performance. It does help that I have it mounted to a very well matched tonearm and a very well sorted deck. I have decided to invest in a Panzerholz wooden body for my M55E, it's just one of those things which I think should knock the level of performance up a notch or two.
I have also been playing around with the capacitance loading with the cartridge, I use this element of cartridge optimisation as a type of "TONE" control. Presently I have been loading the cartridge with approximately 550pf, this came as a surprise as I assumed that I'd been listening to approx 500pf of loading. Yep, 50pf, massive! To my ears the presentation is a little softer, no quite as strident, slightly less detail, a more relaxed presentation I shall have to see if I like this and then make a decision about capacitance loading. I have always tracked the M55E at 1.5g which I have found to sound the best in my system. The ultimate would be to add a really nice JICO stylus maybe one of the SAS series, JICO don't make any SAS stylii for the M55E but do for the M44-7. Stylii for the M44-7 should according to the Shure website should be compatible with the M55E, so I'd like to be extremely shure (sorry) that the thing works in the M55E before I buy one.
Phonostage selection has been pretty easy so far. My EAR834 Clone has trounced three MM stages that I own. I own two Croft MM phonostages and a phonostage which resides in my Radford pre-amp. I really have no desire to start trying loads of different MM phonostages but I'm always happy to try something new should the situation occur.
As ever guys. Stay tuned...
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