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turntable sounds better on warm summer nights

On warm summer evenings it has more presence than cooler winter evenings.I presume this has something to do with the tracking weight of my clearaudio virtuoso wood MM cartridge on warm evenings when the room gets to about 75. If it sounds better in the summer do I add or subtract weight in the winter when the room is about 5 degrees F cooler, in order to get the same summer sound?
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dan_ed
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"My wife sounds better on warm summer nights, go figgur!"

Yeah, she does!
johnnyb53
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All the comments here on time of day and year, temp and humidity effects on cantilever suspension, power grid, etc. make sense. How about the effect of heat and humidity on a wood-bodied cartridge?

My brother's cello always sounded more sonorous and resonant on a warm muggy day.
emailists
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completely of topic, but as a kid I once left a friends fender amp in trunk of my car on a hot summer day.

We took it out and played guitar through it and couldn't believe how good it sounded.
fjn04
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My wife talks so much, I cant even hear the silent black
backround. Let me acquit myself here, I have a male buddy
who is even worse. Please see my related thread, "Take my
wife, OOPS, Wool carpet, please.
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