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guy sergeant wrote:

Sorry, I have a better understanding of the purpose of this exercise now. Are you making 2 new platters or is one to be the existing Micro Platter?

Nope, juts adding RX-5000 platter and base to the existing RX-8000

guy sergeant wrote:

Given that your RX 8000 appears to have a platter made of phosphor bronze (gunmetal) what is your second platter going to be made of? (I understood from some research that Micro felt the phosphor bronze platters better lent themselves to use with SS electronics)

The very same “yellow” platter. The “tone” of the platter is irrelevant. The “tone” becomes relevant if you play vacuum hold-down (MKII) and a record sits atop of the “bare” platter, or atop of a platter decoupled with a very thin fabric. I do not like vacuum hold-down and in my case the platters employ quite thick TT mats that make the platter’s tone irrelevant.

guy sergeant wrote:

How is the phono stage being revised? Are you planning for different eq settings for various vintage recordings?  Will all of your cartridges still be loaded via the ET2?

I would not comment on it at this point in depth. Very basically I would be an offensive design where a “correct” phonostage and ET2 will be working against all 4-6 tonearms, without any switching of cable, adjustment of loading and so on….  Cruelty the revision is in a progress and if I turn out to be successful then I will post information about it

Rgs,
Romy the caT

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