[Rachel @ Grant Fidelity]

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[mhconley]

I've had my Opera Consonance LP-2.0 for going on two years now and I love it.  Great turntable!



Martin

[iGrant]

Nice TT ! and especially liked the pic of your captain's chair !. Nice cover on your LP 2.0. Don't recognize the tonearm or cartridge from the pic, what are they? Notice you having the fishing line belt as well, can't believe the DIY crowd isn't all over this

I;ve been fortunate to have all of Opera's current TT's and tonearms to play with, all have their own character of sound.

Thanks for sharing the pic.
Ian

[mhconley]

Nice TT ! and especially liked the pic of your captain's chair !. Nice cover on your LP 2.0. Don't recognize the tonearm or cartridge from the pic, what are they? Notice you having the fishing line belt as well, can't believe the DIY crowd isn't all over this

Captain's chair? 

Opera had not started making tonearms when I purchased my table.  I have a chrome Moerch UP-4 tonearm with a Grado Sonata high-output cartridge.  The combination is magic on the turntable and I love the juxtaposition of the modern table and arm with the wood body cart.

I was looking at similar tables from more established manufacturers and could not pass up the bang for the buck offered by Opera Consonance.  I had an excellent experience with their CD-120 Linear.  It was beautifully made and sounded fantastic.  I can only echo those comments with the turntable.

Martin

[iGrant]

Captain's Chair:

http://archive.audiocircle.com/systems/index.php?systemid=1104 

Thanks, great to see some other's with Opera's analog gear

Cheers,
Ian

[mhconley]

Ah - now I understand - I'm a little slow.   It is a very nice place to spend a not so quiet evening.

The cover was custom made to my specs by JMK Displays.

Martin

[Scott F.]

Thanks, great to see some other's with Opera's analog gear

Hiya Ian,

Since you mentioned others with Opera gear, thought I'd toss mine into the fray 

My LP5 with the Dynavector 507 MkII

[iGrant]

Sweet LP5, I'm really enjoying the different flavours of Dynavector cartridges. Quite the stand eh !

Are you running fishing line for a belt?

A Dagogo reviewer sent me a pic of his blue led added to the review Droplet 5 MkII. Similar effect

Thanks for posting the picture.

Ian

[Scott F.]

Hi Ian,

I started with the fishing line then changed over to a belt drive for a couple of years. Right now I've gone back to the fishing line as my belt started stretching. The belt drive made a pretty fair sonic difference.

The biggest difference though was when I elevated the motor to get the pulley at the same elevation as the thrust plate of the inverted bearing. This eliminated the sideways drag  and subsequent friction as the belt pulled on the bottom of the bearing sleeve. You can sort of see how high up I moved the belt in that bottom picture when you compare it to my top picture. It was a very worthy tweak and I suggest that for all TT owners who use separate motors. Elevate the motor and belt to the point where they are on the same plane as the thrust plate.

Oh and yes, KILLER stand. In fact, I just bought a second stand from Mariusz who had it left over from some previous purchase. I've got a DIY TT planned for that one.

[iGrant]

Thanks for the tip Scott. When we were trying to get our own design built getting the belt at the thrust plate was something important to us. On the Droplet 5.0 MkII the motor should be raised about 7/8". What did you use to raise it?

I like the fishing line over the belt, but am using Opera's ST-600, so the belt and platter is the only mechanical connection to the cartridge.

Cheers,
Ian

[Scott F.]

As you can see from the top photo, I had the best part of a couple of inches that I needed to raise the motor to get it on the right plane. What is under the motor now is a piece of wood that I cut to size to match the diameter of the motor. It worked pretty well but I've got another idea that I want to try that would further decouple the motor from the plinth.

The other thing that I did was to take some Armaflex insulation (that black foam rubber insulation that goes on refrigeration pipes) and wedged it between the wood base and the aluminum plinth of the LP5. That was a nice little tweak that worked well.

Before too much longer I'm going to make a new armboard out of Bloodwood. Besides being cool looking, it should also make for a nice tweak.