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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Mr. Kleen Stylus cleaner by montepilot on 2009-10-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Mr. Kleen Stylus cleaner in Analog Playback  5 Replies 
STYLUS CLEANING – LIKE MAGIC!   I own a ZeroDust, an XtremePhono and some liquid stylus cleaners, but I don’t use them anymore. Why? Because none of them works as well as a product I bought at the supermarket for a few pennies. I've been using th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: My analog setup update. by Romy the Cat on 2008-06-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My Analog Playback: the fat lady has sung in Analog Playback  9 Replies 
With the recent changes on my configuration changes and employing the “End of the Live Phonostage”, in duty I re-thinked my analog playback. I got rid to arms and one deck, changed the mapping between the arms and phonostages and ended up with quite ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #76: Precession by ducatirider on 2008-07-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ultimate Turntable in Analog Playback  220 Replies 
a load on the side of the bearing could cause an elliptical rotation.  since we are dealing with micro-engineering the effect is likely audible.   Arthur Khoubesserian of Funk Firm uses a single motor with 2 additional pulleys to ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #26: Why foolishness? by Romy the Cat on 2011-03-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Foolishness of Analog People in Analog Playback  56 Replies 
Stitch, way do you think it was foolishness? I see it as a reasonable thread and the question EMT 927 vs. Micro Seiki 8000 is sensible to ask.The Cat...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #130: Your Micro SX-8000 by dkarmeli on 2014-05-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Ultimate Turntable in Analog Playback  220 Replies 
Can I buy your Micro SX-8000 for $5K? After all its 30 years old easy to make for a few hundred bucks.davidActually let me offer you $10k for something that old and shouldn't be sold for more than $2k in Best Buy....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: If the bride is in US, but I am in Europe: by wonderworld on 2014-02-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Micro RX5000: is that bearing spins normally? in Analog Playback  7 Replies 
Is there any way to choose the "right wife" only by video and photos whithout trying her? ;) You are well experienced Romy, which are the symptoms of the "wrong", wobbling or worn out bearing when we buy Micro Seiki RX or SX? Anyway I would like to g...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #41: Micro polar plot by N-set on 2012-11-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Foolishness of Analog People in Analog Playback  56 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]This made me to pay a lot of respect to the subject of motors in TT as I concluded (looking at the straggling of my guy) that good TT motors are super rare thing.The Cat[/quote]Amen. I'm still puzzled by the strange polar p...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: I guess it's my own fault. by Alex Yakovlev on 2008-06-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Micro Seiki SZ-1T in Analog Playback  2 Replies 
I know, the way I asked the question makes it uneasy to answer it.Micro Seiki fascinates me; though my experience with their tables has been less than satisfying so far. I had three very unsuccessful attempts with various 5000s, and I guess I am look...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: some factors in the potential by Dominic on 2007-01-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Tuuubes - where are the hard vacuums going? in Audio Discussions  3 Replies 
here's an extract from some people involved in such research [url]http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1989ITED...36.2651O[/url]The miniature glass ones i mentioned, are called sub-micro and some examples are shown here: [url]http://www.oneillselectronicmus...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Re: black belt 3rd Dan in Marketing BS by guy sergeant on 2006-01-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Foolishness of Analog People in Analog Playback  56 Replies 
"Cho-san, the chief-designer of Micro, told me that the art of turntables design is the art of recognizing and managing emotions in materials."What the hell does this nonsense mean?best regards,Guy...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: The Phono Interconnects. by Romy the Cat on 2008-06-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Chasing utopian better phono interconnect. in Analog Playback  6 Replies 
Since the 2007-2008 alchemic music season and consequentially live FM season was over (the event I marked with my “End of the live Phonostage”) I have been spinning a lot of vinyl lately. So, I spent some time with different phono cables with my diff...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Tubes in sauna are rather metaphors. by Romy the Cat on 2013-11-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Trading cable elevators for spare space. in Audio Discussions  11 Replies 
Well, if cause I would not keep the DHT tube with plastic bottom in sauna. Even though I did, purl for run, loaded 4 boxes of 6C33C under the lower sauna beach, still the subject tubes in sauna is rather a metaphorical concept for me then the true ne...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Persian dynamics by clarkjohnsen on 2010-12-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to play Bruckner Sound in Audio. in Playback Listening  16 Replies 
"...persian classic music does not need multi-chanelling but it needs good micro dymanic."I know exactly what you mean and I agree.clark...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Speculation! by op.9 on 2016-06-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My Audio Philosophy in Playback Listening  95 Replies 
[quote user="Amir"]micro linearity will improve by good analog source (master tape) ...[/quote]Pure speculation. not correct necessarily. @Cat: it seems there are still "morons" out there ;-) your "Mini-me" has dominated the majority of your precious...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: After measuring my platter by chaslieb on 2016-02-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Anybody using vacuum hold-down besides me? in Analog Playback  4 Replies 
It seems that the micro seiki platter ends by the inside gasket at 4 3/4 inches and the platter ends by the gasket by the outside edge at 11 inches.  The pad would need to be cut to those dimensions for the inside hole and outside diameter to fit.  I...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: Moving on... by Wellington on 2015-10-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Copper Mat on a Micro Seiki Gun Metal Platter in Analog Playback  122 Replies 
Wow. What can I say? My intention here was simply to propose good news to owners of heavy Micro Seikis - to consider trying a CU-180 on top of their big platters. Somewhere along the line I had to gently correct Romy on a point has been common knowle...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Did I miss something? by montepilot on 2011-06-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Chasing utopian better phono interconnect. in Analog Playback  6 Replies 
You got rid of the Kondo cable.  The Micro cable had deteriorated silicon.  So what did you fix?...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Clean and polish gunmetal platter. by Ciampa on 2020-06-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Clean and polish gunmetal platter. in Analog Playback  0 Replies 
good day everyone. I need to clean the platter of my micro seiki rx5000. hv u got some suggestion on wht products I shd use ?many tnks.ciampa...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Shaping sound by Amir on 2010-06-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to play Bruckner Sound in Audio. in Playback Listening  16 Replies 
I'm not a classic listener but who listen to classic music (between my friends) they very like multi-chanelling and they prefer more dynamic sound.I like persian classic music that it do not make me so happy with multi-chanelling.most section of pers...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Had the prob... by Lwood on 2008-11-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Sometimes surface noise is not just surface noise in Analog Playback  2 Replies 
...with an Ortofon 10, sold it and got a Benz Pearl....neither of these are high end by any stretch, but the Ortofonwas way noisy compared to the Benz...beats me.I'm using an older Luxman PD277 TT, what do you think it would cost to really make an up...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: Why the hell would you need SX8000? by Wojtek on 2010-11-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Idler Drive - Rumbling Into The Future? in Analog Playback  27 Replies 
It's probably as good or even worse than Acoustic Solid, Acoustic Signature , VPI , Teres , Galibier and army of heavy TT's you don't have to rob a bank and can buy third hand for fraction of original price. My undersanding is there weren't many heav...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: The old Micro Seiki by Romy the Cat on 2008-11-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Micro RX 5000 in Analog Playback  9 Replies 
Yes, I had 4 Micros 5000 and one of them was almost glued platter. You need to flip it upside down and hit with a small hammer to knock to the TT’s back, in the bearing. It will eventually slide out. To service Micro Seiki 5000 is kind of tricky… I d...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: I never thought it would be possible. by Romy the Cat on 2014-02-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Micro RX5000: is that bearing spins normally? in Analog Playback  7 Replies 
[quote user="wonderworld"]It seems that all of much used Micro RX or SX TT's have the same problem, is that right? It will be nice if more of other owners of RX or SX TT's share their observations and experience regarding this problem... attached is...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: 3012 silicon dumping by RonyWeissman on 2012-02-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 3012 silicon dumping in Analog Playback  1 Replies 
Hi Romy,When youmdiscuss silicon dumping with your 3012 do you mean the silicon you put on headshell orDo you mean you use a silicon bath to damp the arm resonance, or both? I can't find the thread and I have decided to spend some time with my vinyl ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #49: Yes and no. by Romy the Cat on 2012-11-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Foolishness of Analog People in Analog Playback  56 Replies 
[quote user="Stitch"]… they have 2 weak features - a Platter which rings- no suspension[/quote] No arguments here BUT how the Platter Ringing and No Suspension impacts sound? I mean we can take a hummer, smack the platter and observe ringing. However...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: *Spaceal* Inequities by Chirag on 2005-03-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The “Melquiades” Sound - beginning of the story. in Melquiades Amplifier  28 Replies 
Dear Kitty,[The positions of the instruments are an arteffect of sound reproduction and in real "live" you do not recognize the instruments positioning. You acknowledge thier presents “somewhere there” but you never recognize it as “right” ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Digital and it's volume both are shit by Amir on 2009-11-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Digital Volume Control self-assessment in Audio For Dummies ™  12 Replies 
me and armen were testing dcs scarlatti digital volume control with vitus amplifier and kharma midi speaker.it's effect on sound is removing life from sound, less emotion, flatter sound, less bloom, less color.digital volume kill micro information of...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Objective reference by Amir on 2014-07-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The 3 things that audio needs. in Playback Listening  5 Replies 
It needs 3 thing:1. professional designer2. professional listener3. mathematical theory by a mathematicianmy micro macro linearity theory is a theory for this subject but i think audio need powerful research in a right direction.i think this is not e...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: Our brain by Amir on 2016-06-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My Audio Philosophy in Playback Listening  95 Replies 
I think our brain is so complex , the ear and brain structure are very very complex in music processing.low THD , high Slew rate , ... non of them could make us happy , i know making an theory for understanding relation of musicality with mathematics...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: Happy birthday but …. by Romy the Cat on 2011-10-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Rakeshorns in Horn-Loaded Speakers  33 Replies 
....but can you post a sketch of your future frame with horns? I assure you that the images of specific micro-details of constructing without understanding the content of enter project, how horn are related to each other, and how frame will hold them...
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