I said I would never buy another Turntable...Argh !!!

today for me is all vinyl; i'm pulling out old vinyl I had avoided previously and am re-visiting it. lot's of wows. been a great listening day. so far 7 straight hours of vinyl.

That sounds like a great day. Care to share any titles that created the biggest wows?
 
assume you mean enjoying each day to it's fullest as if your last. wonderful idea and one we should all aspire to.

Yes Mike. That’s what I mean.

One day I will go visit you...and I will bring my own coffee. :D

Tang
 
Heh
 
That sounds like a great day. Care to share any titles that created the biggest wows?

here's 2.

7-8 years ago i discovered the Jeton label, a German direct to disc label from 1978-1981 that put out a dozen or so dtd titles. i bought them all before i'd ever read any posts about them. at the time i only really liked 2 of them. the Chris Barber Band and the Ray Brown/Alimeda Midnight Seneade.....and posted about them. now lots of people have those 2 titles.

today i played 'Blues and Boogie Explosion' 1003320, and Monty Alexander 'Solo' 1003310. the Monty Alexander is a fantastic sounding piano pressing, which previously was too shrill and edgy sounding. and the Blues and Boogie the same.

now with the Taiko Tana treatments on the TS-140 under my NVS and on the TS-150 under my dart pre along with other signal path tweaks such as the Tripoint Elite both those are really amazing sounding. and their vivid truth now serves the music magically. they will be demo discs going forward. 'Solo' will be a go to example of what piano can sound like on vinyl, the 'Boogie' is warp 9 big band and super alive and energetic. both are just great music besides having outstanding sonics, relatively rare for dtd.

both are highly recommended.

OTOH i played a couple TBM pressings from the 90's that still sound like crap. :-(
 
Great! :D
 
So Mike, were you playing lps straight out of their sleeves, or via your dsd rips?
 
Marc sent me some CADs of SAT arm board on the AS2000. I plan to put SAT on the front tight.

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Kind regards, Tang
 
Armboard angle is very extreme Tang I wonder if it's just the CAD aesthetic or actually needed because of the geometry of the arm.

david

I have to ask Marc David. What do you mean by extreme angle. I have seen his arm board for AF3. It looks pretty much like this one. The round base of SAT takes up a bit of space. The arm itself is 9”

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Tang
 
It's the angle of the armboard as he has it setup on the table, usually the armboards are in a straight line with tt's corners, wether 9"/10" or 12", in his CAD the armboard is angled to the extreme. The way he has it you lose one armpost

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david
 
David and Tang,

it is a great help for you guys to discuss these issues here on WBF. i'm learning so much with every post. and it will be easy to return for reference.

thank you,

Mike
 
Looks cool Tang. I would strongly consider an arm board redesign much like David has envisioned and executed so as not to give up a tone arm slot.
 
David, for tonearms which don’t have SME-style armboard mounts or SME-style adapters what do we do? Does the tonearm maker have to machine a tonearm base hole and bolt holes in an AS-2000 tonearm clamp as shown in the SAT drawing?
 
David and Tang,

it is a great help for you guys to discuss these issues here on WBF. i'm learning so much with every post. and it will be easy to return for reference.

thank you,

Mike

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