dougdeacon
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| Tranfiguration Orpheus description Andrew,Cello and I each own a 25% share in a Wally Analog Shop. It works, and using it taught me two things (which Dan has already mentioned):1. extremely small adjustments matter and,2. I can set azimuth about as well by ear as by measuring (and ... | |
| Tranfiguration Orpheus description Andrew,It sounds like the Orpheus is breaking in nicely. The fact that it now sounds better at a more normal 100 ohms than at 47K is consistent with that. I've had new MC's that sounded okay at higher impedances OOTB, but needed progressively lowe... | |
| Silicone for Tri-Planer damping trough Jack43,Glad you're enjoying the new setup! I've never heard a WT, but from its design I'd expect to hear just what you described on switching to a TriPlanar. Silicone damping seems to work okay in the bearing well of some unipivots but other appli... | |
| Damaging records with a hand turned machine. Xiekitchen,Let's not forget that MD wants you to buy their brushes. I'm not saying they'd lie but they do have an incentive, FWIW.I have scratched records with a dry Hunt EDA brush. That is easy to do. Be careful with that one.I've *tried* to scra... | |
| Lube for turntable - What do you prefer? In that case he should know the answer! It depends, as I said, on the tolerances of the bearing and also on the materials inside the bearing.With that information a mechanical engineer with lubrications expertise could make a recommendation based ... | |
| Lube for turntable - What do you prefer? It depends on the table, actually on the bearing to be more precise. What works in one bearing could be a disaster in another.If your bearing was designed to use grease, then grease is what you should use. Bearings designed for grease typically ha... | |
| Does size really matter? :- Good insights from Jcarr, as usual (hi Jonathon!)To clear up one possible source of confusion regarding ZYX stylus specs, the entry level Bloom does not use a micro-ridge stylus - it's an elliptical. I presume this was done to control costs. Highe... | |
| Graham 2.2 traking force, do you use more? Bill,We haven't heard a Vector III, but we heard a Vector I easily outplay a Graham 2.2 so I presume the newer versions do too. Paul ruled out unstabilized unipivots on theory before we ever heard one. We've heard several since then and have never... | |
| Graham 2.2 traking force, do you use more? Tris,I haven't heard Cello's 2.2/UNIverse since he started exploring above-normal VTF's. IIRC he was using 2.3g (ZYX recommends a maximum of 2.2). Since then he's acquired a Schroeder Ref SQ. I believe his 2.2 may be collecting dust.Raul hit the n... | |
| anyone used the Sutherland Phd high gain card? Viiu,I doubt many people would suggest 10K ohms for an Airy 3. Optimal loading is system dependent for sure, but 10K is almost certainly too high for that cartridge, with which I have some experience. Assuming you have the LO Airy 3, I'd expect th... | |
| Graham 2.2 traking force, do you use more? A stylus does not ride on a single pivot point. | |
| The importance of proper set-up IME it's rarely possible to use VTA to balance out frequency problems from the system, room or recording. VTA adjustment just doesn't alter bass/treble balance that much. It alters bass/treble timing, which is a different thing.As Newbee said, the... | |
| The importance of proper set-up Stew,Since you're crazed enough to ask, the best primer I've seen on VTF and VTA adjustment by ear is at Lloyd Walker's site. Read this first: http://www.walkeraudio.com/fine_tuning_your_turntable.htmAs LW points out, their are two levels of adjus... | |
| Graham 2.2 traking force, do you use more? Sniper101,Excellent insight! I just learned another reason (besides VPI's antiskate problem) why some people achieve better results using apparently excess VTF's. Thank you for that. Unipivots are of course inherently unstable in the azimuth plane... | |
| The importance of proper set-up I can recall all of the trips from my listening chair to the turn table to give another tweek of the VTA, id infinitum. I wonder when I ever found time to actually relax and enjoy the music! That's why we record the setting for each LP on the jack... |