dougdeacon
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| Graham tonearm tweaking Sirspeedy,I certainly wasn't trying to argue, but I wasn't offering an opinion either. Unlike many things in audio, thread pitch is easily measured. 0.7mm per turn is more resolving than 1.0mm per turn. Opinion really doesn't enter into it. (Now I... | |
| Best tonearm position for VTA? Good responses from all the above. As Twl suggested, VTA (and SRA) is not a tonearm adjustment. It is an adjustment to the relationship between vinyl, stylus and cantilever that on most rigs happens to be effected by raising or lowering the tonear... | |
| Graham tonearm tweaking I recently went to two high line audio homes in NYC.One a rich hobbyist with too much money.Never keeping anything long enough to learn how to set it up properly.300,000.00 worth of,literally, the worst sound I've ever heard.I've met one of that t... | |
| proper loading on cartridge I'dliketostarttypinglikethisbutmythumbkeepshittingthespacebar! | |
| proper loading on cartridge Bfuehrer,Raul's formula is correct for resistors in series. The formula I gave is correct for resistors in parallel. It all depends on your setup, which we know nothing about. So don't forget either formula. Remember them both and use whichever on... | |
| How Long do LP's last Agreed. I have 45-50 year old LP's that play fine. Not all of them by any means, but all the ones that were properly cared for.Proper care means a RCM. Don't upgrade your turntable or tonearm before buying one. Don't upgrade your cartridge first e... | |
| proper loading on cartridge First, are you running directly into a gain stage or into a stepup? An MC feeding a tranny will want to see a much lower impedance than if it's directly feeding a gain stage. In addition, a tranny steps the resistance of the circuit down by the sq... | |
| Graham tonearm tweaking First, many thanks to sirspeedy for the typing upgrade. 15 paragraphs in two posts, wow! Seriously, your always valuable content is much easier to read. Go ahead, blush!Remote control VTA, wouldn't that be nifty? It really doesn't take much time o... | |
| Graham tonearm tweaking I don't doubt sirspeedy's statement, based on much longer damping experiments than mine, that these adjustments interact to some degree. Certainly VTF and VTA do. To "perfectly" adjust one parameter you need to have the other two optimized as well... | |
| Graham tonearm tweaking George_a, If you changed the fluid level on a Graham 2.2 for every record you could only spin 1 or 2 records a day. It is a potentially messy process that must be done with considerable patience and care. If you only have one pair of hands it may ... | |
| Electrical problems? Alanpiga,I don't know if it's relevant to your noise, but how did you ground the Teres motor pod at the motor end? Grounding the case does not ground the motor. There was a discussion of this recently on the Teres discussion forum. Chris Brady chi... | |
| What's wrong with classical music on vinyl? Sufentanil ,I listen to classical 95% of the time, every sub-genre imaginable from pre-Gregorian chant to avant-garde 20th C. and everything in between. About 2,000 LP's in all, 500 bought new in the 1970's-80's, the remainder bought new and used ... | |
| Is the Teres a I'm with Jean and Twl on the speed stability issue, and also in the belief that there's more than one way to achieve it. I haven't built a Lenco but I certainly trust comparisons like 4yanx's, Albert's and many others. Twl's explanation of the wea... | |
| DIY stylus-cleaning magic long Glad to see so many people are starting to enjoy the marvelous cleaning abilities of Paul's stylus cleaner discovery. Also glad to see these new and improved ideas for use, like glueing a piece on a coin for "handle-free" dunking and Paul Frumkin'... | |
| Michell Gyro SE...Light or Heavy style Clamp?? As a rule, suspended tables take lightweight clamps because a heavy clamp would throw the suspension off.The reason to use a heavy clamp (on an appropriate table) is not to change sides without stopping the platter. It's for superior vinyl/platter... |