Thank you, that chart is most helpful. As was your photo with the SP-10 (is that considered an SL-1000?). Looking at your V-15, it was in a slightly different spot in the headshell than mine, and I was getting a hint of mistracking when aligning via overhang. Yep, my arm was a mm too close to the spindle. And what a difference that made. All good now after resetting the arm.The E is for super high compliance - it's 6g effective mass. H at 8g is the usual suspect for most high compliance carts, and is the easiest to find thankfully. Here's a chart that may help:
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Impressive. I thought that looked like the SP-10R but knew that was the older plinth. Beautiful setup.That one is an SP-10R in the OEM plinth for the SP-10MK3 - SH-10B5. The SL-1000MK2 was the SP-10MKII, SH10B3, and EPA-100. The SL-1000MK3 was the SP-10MK3, SH-10B5, and EPA-100MK2, pictured below.
The SP-10R is behind me in my home office as it's the setup I use for testing, needle drops, etc. The unit pictured below is in the temporary upstairs listening room. I'm going to swap the EPA-100MK2 out on that one for an EPA-500B as most of my carts are mounted on 500 series wands. I'm collecting EPA-100 parts for that 500B as the bearings pins on the EPA-100 are hardened and polished. That one will get those pins and Si3N4 balls.
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So if I'm going to go on a hunt for a lower mass wand to run my V-15IIIs etc. the H would probably be the best choice overall?The E is for super high compliance - it's 6g effective mass. H at 8g is the usual suspect for most high compliance carts, and is the easiest to find thankfully. Here's a chart that may help:
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So if I'm going to go on a hunt for a lower mass wand to run my V-15IIIs etc. the H would probably be the best choice overall?
The problem now is actually finding one. I don’t know where this stuff hides and eBay is charging a fortune for the one wand on there.Yes.
The problem now is actually finding one. I don’t know where this stuff hides and eBay is charging a fortune for the one wand on there.
Where I'm at with my DP-80 as well. I've played more LPs in the past few weeks than I have in some entire years. I put a CD on and sounds *meh* by comparison. The EPA is a wonderful arm and the top end DD drives are things to marvel over.A couple of more observations on the TTS-8000 with the Technics EPA-500/a501h arm.
I spent a good deal of time tweaking the setup of the cart. I've settled on the Audio Technca OC-9ml/2 LOMC after trying the V-15vmr and Stanton 881s MMs. After I got the cart locked in, the performance soared above that of the Stax UA-7cf. My first reactions were based on the OC-9 being somewhat dialed in, and the cart just opened up, smoothed out, and became incredibly dynamic when I got it in the exact right spot.
This is, by no small degree, the best analog playback I have ever had. And its among the best I have ever heard. I'm simply astounded. I've been listening to album after album after album, enjoying the hell out of every one of them. I know its cliche, but I'm hearing some of them, that I've heard dozens of times, like they're new to me.
The TTS-8000 has the smoothness of a belt, the timing of a direct drive, and dynamics of an idler. I love the controls. Nothing on it feels cheap. I get a smile on my face every time I turn it on with its little feather-touch start/stop button. It makes many of the tables I've used feel like toys or basement experiments.
The arm? Holy crap this thing is precise. It's bearings are unworldly in how free of friction they are.
I absolutely LOVE this turntable setup. I've not heard a table at 10 times the price that I like more. Very very happy here.
And you know that your purchase of the Rega was what finally inspired me to sort out the TTS-8000, which at the time was collecting dust in the basement. I'd tried to rationalize the Rega myself but figured I should give this another go before anything so drastic. It's good to be in a happy place, and not able to really even think about anything better as anything better is well out of reach.And while I couldn't be coming at this from a more different direction, I think I'm in about the same area with my Rega. It's been a huge leap above where the Kenwood/FR-24 combo was.
And you know that your purchase of the Rega was what finally inspired me to sort out the TTS-8000, which at the time was collecting dust in the basement. I'd tried to rationalize the Rega myself but figured I should give this another go before anything so drastic. It's good to be in a happy place, and not able to really even think about anything better as anything better is well out of reach.
I hope so, and thank you for your help behind the scenes. I know we've been on a bit of of a parallel path here. It's filled with things that look very unobtainable but fingers crossed. And it had that smell of electronic death about it.Let us get it back to health. If my DP-80 could be brought back from complete death...