dougdeacon
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| setting azimuth P.S. As Rodman99999 stated, azimuth also affects timbre. Signals that come from one source (speaker) only will be phase coherent (assuming decent speakers). If the signal bleeds into the other channel due to crosstalk from incorrect azimuth, the s... | |
| setting azimuth I'm not sure I have such a fine tuned ear to get it dialed in...Few people do, until they understand what to listen for. It's not like anyone's born knowing what accurate stylus azimuth sounds like. ;-)It's actually not a matter of tuning our ears... | |
| setting azimuth You'd need a notch filter. Otherwise, background groove noise will swamp the test tone and make the readings highly unreliable. However, IME doing it this way is a waste of time. I rough in azimuth by eye (make the stylus riding in a the groove ap... | |
| VTF Question for dummies As I and many others have posted on this and other forums repeatedly for 10+ years, the HFN&RR test LP is worse than useless for setting A/S. Its design concept is flawed and the directions that come with it are misleading. Virtually every new... | |
| VTF setting, before or After setting anti-skate? Crubio,So you're asking... HOW to measure VTF? WHEN to measure VTF?or...?Please re-post a question the Intelligencii can understand. ;-) | |
| VTF setting, before or After setting anti-skate? Additionally, in response to your title question, set VTF first, with A/S set at zero. Then proceed as above. | |
| VTF setting, before or After setting anti-skate? Devices like the Wally Skater can measure the amount of antiskating a tonearm's A/S device applies at any given point across the tonearm's arc of travel. However, any such static measurement taken when the stylus is not tracking a moving groove wi... | |
| What is the effective length of Basis Vector 4? Good advice from the above. @ Tora, you asked about effective length but then added (in parentheses) the pivot-to-spindle dimension, as though they were the same thing. They're not. Make sure you know which is which... just sayin'. :-) | |
| Record cleaning fluids Syntax, you're lucky. I wish I had 3X LADS to help clean my records! | |
| record cleaning question Chayro,Good questions. They can be answered, provided one has the time, patience and interest in doing a lot of work. As Edison said, the genius (in product testing and development) is 99% perspiration, 1% inspiration. Exactly right.Being a nut ca... | |
| Spin Clean seems to add noise to records? One additional thought. With any cleaning method, I've found that some clicks and pops are removable only with an enzyme cleaning solution. Of the 3 brands I've tried, AIVS Enzymatic gives me the best results. | |
| Spin Clean seems to add noise to records? I second Actusreus's seconding! ;-)The OP's experience of music that's more alive, with more jump, with more low level detail BUT with a slightly noisier record surface is what I hear on many cleaned records. Vinyl surfaces often contain microscop... | |
| record cleaning question I've used both. To my ears, the AIVS fluids and pure water rinse produced cleaner LP grooves. For my listening preferences and with my cleaning protocols, AIVS are my RCM fluids of choice. | |
| Graham Phantom Anti-Skate. Is it effective at all? John,You quoted Stringreen's contention about why tonearms include A/S but also addressed your rebuttal to me, as though I had seconded that statement. I didn't and I don't. Please don't ask me to defend statements I haven't made.I'm unaware that ... | |
| Graham Phantom Anti-Skate. Is it effective at all? The constant outward deflection of the arm... exerts a force that inhibits the stylus and produces a side damping. One wants the stylus to be absolutely free to negotiate its travels.Bingo! That's what I hear. It sounds exactly like using too much... |