dougdeacon
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| Electronic stylus force gauge question My apologies if my post came across as patronizing. I did attempt (not so successfully) to acknowledge what you just said, that, "Many of us just want to set our system up and listen to music, not tweak it for every record."The last bit of my post... | |
| Table/Cart Set Up - By Ear or Test Record? Actusreus, on any tonearm I know of the VTA tower is designed to move straight up and down, subject only to random variations in the threads. I'm unaware of any tonearm with a VTA tower designed to move on an arc with a radius matching the arm's e... | |
| Tonearm mounting differences Graham vs.Tri-Planar. One of the best? At its price point I'd say yes.Syntax has compared Tri-P vs. Graham Phantom using a UNIverse. I believe he prefers the Phantom with that cartridge. That's a bit costlier though, as you have to buy a tonearm cable.Schroeder arms ar... | |
| Electronic stylus force gauge question Pradeep,A scale that resolves to .1g is okay. If it displays 1.7 then you're somewhere between 1.65000 and 1.74999... That's close enough to begin tweaking by ear. My scale resolves to .01g but I rarely pay attention to the second digit. | |
| Electronic stylus force gauge question Stringreen,It's evident from several recent threads that Actusreus is not yet comfortable with trusting his ears and prefers the security of measurements, even measurements that don't necessarily correlate to optimal sonics. If he believes that ev... | |
| Tonearm mounting differences Graham vs.Tri-Planar. Rokokono,The same height mounting board will work for both arms. I've seen it done on more than one table.The hole drilling patterns are quite different however, as are the mounting distances from the TT spindle. My suggestion would be to have a b... | |
| Table/Cart Set Up - By Ear or Test Record? Actusreus,There's no question that altering arm height on a straight vertical axis alters overhang at the stylus. This isn't a matter of opinion, it's proveable by the principles of geometry. It could only be otherwise if an arm height adjustment ... | |
| Table/Cart Set Up - By Ear or Test Record? Tonywinsc,It does require gear at a certain level to hear SRA changes as affecting phase coherence. Lower resolution cartridges mounted on lower resolution rigs (like my old Shelter 901/OL Silver combo for instance) are too muddy to hear this clea... | |
| Table/Cart Set Up - By Ear or Test Record? Using a test record to achieve none or minimal distortion in the channels, I had to turn the anti-skating up signficantly. When I did this, it dramtically affected rhythm and pace and tactility of the bass. The pace was diminished and bass became ... | |
| Table/Cart Set Up - By Ear or Test Record? Hey, Phil. Thanks for the props, lol. I guess I agree with you (duh!). When learning it is helpful to see hard metrics provided by various tools. For azimuth I was once part-owner of a Wally Analog Shop, which measures crosstalk. It worked and the... | |
| Difference between Airy 3 silver & copper We've had several ZYX carts in our system with both the copper and silver coils: - UNIverse- Airy 3- Airy 2- a beta test model that was never released to the publicWe also had a gold coil UNIverse.In all cases...COPPER COILSSound fastest, most liv... | |
| Setting Azimuth - What do you listening for? WHAT TO LISTEN FOR?Optimal azimuth minimizes crosstalk and phase mis-alignment between channels. Therefore, optimal azimuth will cause sonic images to sound their tightest (laterally) and most coherent. Inaccurate azimuth causes sonic images to so... | |
| Adjusting counterweight on Loricraft RCM Using too much fluid doesn't necessarily clean better. If the fluid isn't down inside the grooves in contact with contaminants it isn't really doing anything but making a mess. :-)Agree with Peter and Pradeep regarding a double vacuum sweep, espec... | |
| Adjusting counterweight on Loricraft RCM The counterweight on my PRC3 has a small screw in the hole. From memory, a small Allen key was the tool to loosen/tighten it. Of course, being British-made, they're liable to have used whatever screw was lying about! ;-)Many users (including me) a... | |
| Setting Azimuth Lewm's interpretation of my comment was correct. The experiment described in the OP clearly demonstrated that azimuth has little effect on channel output. Like many useful experiments it proved that the going-in hypothesis was false. That's just a... |