dougdeacon
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| Is tonearm bias a compromise, maybe a myth? Lew, I agree with the elaborations in your post. For clarity, the only point of my (admittedly over-simplified) analogy was to illustrate this fact:- skating forces act (first) upon the stylus- anti-skating devices act (first) upon the tonearmThis... | |
| Is tonearm bias a compromise, maybe a myth? "Pre-loaded" implies to me that there is a load on the cantilever independent of the stylus being played in the groove. Sorry. By "pre-loaded" I mean that A/S devices pressure the cantilever against the suspension as soon as the stylus locks into ... | |
| Lyra Kleos: tracking force/VTA/azimuth questions ...to go from mistracking to "singing" with tiny tweaks just doesn't sound right."I've no experience with the Kleos, 20X2 or Zephyr, but I assure you that with many cartridges the difference between mistracking and singing is indeed just a tweak o... | |
| Priscilla Ahn Sibilance Ehleybay, In addition to Mofimadness's suggestion, try increasing VTF by a SMALL amount (like .01g if you can, or the smallest adjustment you can make) and replaying the offending passage. Repeat and continue making a tiny VTF increase each time. ... | |
| Lyra Kleos: tracking force/VTA/azimuth questions Why not just make a weighing step with enough drop-down to put the stylus at record height when the scale & step are sitting on the platter? Let's you measure at the right height and, if you make it the right weight, it will put your scale nea... | |
| Is tonearm bias a compromise, maybe a myth? I was really surprised at how much more depth there was to the soundstage and greater subtle details. I was then gobsmacked by the discovery that I had forgotten to re-attach the bias weight thread! Applying Lateral Bias seems to compromise perfor... | |
| TriPlanar Tips Lew, I just indulged in some semi-OT chat myself, so no problem! ;-) Just wanted to halt an entirely OT snark-fest. Email me if you want to know more about my "tease". | |
| How Many Turntables Have You Owned 6 | |
| TriPlanar Tips Michael, please do!Good one, Albert. Now let me explain about teasing... ;) | |
| TriPlanar Tips Sbrown, I'm glad SOMEBODY noticed! You should see me in my best Levi's... care to buy me a drink? :-DFor the curious, there are some hints buried in that little indiscretion... :) | |
| Don't use this to lube your VPI Classic bearing Actusreus, Sorry if my response seemed off target, but like VPI's manual your OP was also incomplete. You didn't state that you'd consulted the manual, had any familiarity with VPI's instructions or had doubts about their completeness. To an objec... | |
| VPI Service - I'm impressed This thread makes an interesting contrast to the (currently) adjacent thread by a Classic owner who wouldn't pay VPI $26 for the bearing lube. To save (some portion of) that massive sum he went to the hardware and bought some (randomly selected?) ... | |
| Learned a valuable lesson about ambient noise No question. Systems always sound better late at night (like 2am). Not only is there less ambient local noise, there's less noise on the electrical circuits too. We rarely do critical listening in the daytime in Summer because the A/C noise is too... | |
| Don't use this to lube your VPI Classic bearing "Since you only need a little bit of it about once a year, $26 for the lube from VPI"... is trivial compared with the risk of ruining the bearing. It appears that your cheap gene overruled your common sense gene. Did you make any effort to ascerta... | |
| TriPlanar Tips Lew, Our TriPlanar still has a UNIverse mounted on it. Glad you finally had the opportunity to hear one. We've enjoyed it since 2004, our infatuations being longer-lived than some. We've only recently heard a cartridge significantly better it. Can... |