dougdeacon
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| Setting Azimuth Agree... despite responses from me, Essentialaudio and Lewm trying to help, the OP still seems fixated on trying to adjust channel balance. Until he understands that azimuth does not particularly affect channel output it won't matter what widgets ... | |
| ZYX Airy 3 Best SUT Furthermore... the Airy 3's output is actually higher than .24mv if industry standard test tracks are used. ZYX uses a less commonly known test LP to measure output, one which results in lower numbers. Multiply by about 1.34 to get an output that'... | |
| ZYX Airy 3 Best SUT The Airy 3's output is actually higher than .24mv if industry standard test tracks are used. ZYX uses a less commonly known test LP to measure output, one which results in lower numbers. Multiply by about 1.34 to get an output that's comparable to... | |
| Moving VPI TNT, Wheaton Triplanar, Transfiguration The Triplanar box should protect a mounted cartridge about as well as anything. Other than that I concur with Atmasphere, Lewm and any others who balked at the terrifying prospect of letting a moving company pack a high end vinyl rig. Good god... | |
| Does mfg's name/model affect your opinion of sound No. The sound effects my opinion of the manufacturer.Exactly. Enough said. | |
| Setting Azimuth I cannot seem to achieve a proper azimuth that will give even channel balance. Azimuth has little if any effect on channel balance (except when very badly mis-adjusted, as you've experienced). You're measuring the wrong thing.This has been discuss... | |
| Upgrade for users of 1/2" mylar belt Hi Pani,R2R tape provides a less elastic, less slippage-prone coupling than silk thread. The drive belt described in this thread simply goes further in that same direction... much further. Therefore, whatever you heard from R2R tape you'd hear eve... | |
| Do you leave your platter spinning while switching My main rig uses a threaded clamp so it's not even an option. Even if it were I wouldn't do it. There's a $5K cartridge hanging there and its cantilever is well placed to get whacked. The miniscule wear and tear on motor and belt from startups cou... | |
| Upgrade for users of 1/2" mylar belt Hi Don,Thanks for reviving this thread from the depths of time... well, 2011. You must have tweaked your Scout quite a bit to use a belt like this... impressive.Like you, we've always used natural instrument recordings to test any system or compon... | |
| Headshell Hygiene and SME Standard Stupidity Hmmm... 5 of your 6 cartridges have their pins opposite to those on the headshell? Based on this admittedly small sample it seems there is indeed a standard... and SME failed to adhere to it. ;-) | |
| Headshell Hygiene and SME Standard Stupidity Agree with Nandric. Why not just restore the insulation layer on the exposed portion of your wires? A thin layer of nail polish or any non-conducting material should help. | |
| Unipivot tonearms less forgiving of Vinyl quality? Agree with Tobes. Because their contact radii are smaller, line contact and micro-ridge styli can trace groove modulations having shorter wavelengths than other stylus shapes. Conical/spherical styli are at the opposite end of the spectrum, with e... | |
| ok to break in phono preamp w/ non lp source? LOL, good one Marakanetz... except that many manufacturers will disclaim their warranty obligations to the extent damage was caused by owner abuse. Putting a line-level signal into a phono input might be deemed as such. It certainly would not acco... | |
| ZYX Omega or UNIverse? Syntax, you should talk to Mehran about ceilings becoming floors. Tell him I sent you, he'll tell you why. ;) | |
| ZYX Omega or UNIverse? I'd put the A90 ahead of those other cartridges too. As I posted back on 10/01/11, "...I'd at least consider putting it on a similar plane to the UNIverse." Any cartridge that comes close to a UNIverse will outplay lower range ZYX's (including the... |