dougdeacon
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| Arms w/ azimuth adjustment while record is playing Adjusting azimuth on a Graham 2.2 requires raising the stylus off the LP. The adjustment is very quick, much quicker than a JMW or Triplanar, but it's not quite "while the record is playing". My experience is the same as Lewm's, the Talea's the on... | |
| Arms w/ azimuth adjustment while record is playing Br3098,Adjusting azimuth during play on a JMW (and most tonearms) would indeed be risky, foolhardy even, but that misses the point.On some tonearms (like the Talea mentioned by Dan_Ed) the risk is essentially zero. Adjusting azimuth on the Talea i... | |
| tonearm/cartridge matching, mass/damping/tweaking +1 for Viridian's post. The formula everybody frets about only addresses his first point, which is fairly trivially easy to get right. The hard part is his second point. | |
| Best Record Cleaning Process on a Loricraft Peter and Gradys, Don't waste your time. In our experience steaming is ineffective at best, and more likely to do harm than good at worst.We've tried it, with three different recommended steamers, using every technique espoused by the acolytes. Wa... | |
| What I learned on Audiogon This Year That won't help you, their instruments are out of tune and they cannot hear it.LOL. True, but I can. Still helps me know when any particular system change is closer or farther from reality. If the local reality is less than ideal, oh well. All tun... | |
| Analog Preview? Heh. Me too. I first heard it on the fold-up-into-a-suitcase stereo my parents gave me for my 13th birthday. Ah, that was a fine day.1966. That thing got me through high school, and from the Beatles to Beethoven and Bach. It ruined every record it... | |
| Analog Preview? Sprog, I agree that pre-echo can be heard even in many basic systems. It's also true, however, that on the same LP it will be more audible, clearer and earlier in a more resolving system.A sterner test is the ability to hear post-echoes. This is r... | |
| Setting Antiskate - visually Why do people obsess about adjusting an AUDIO playback system by VISUAL means? Would you fine tune a telescope or expensive camera by listening to it?Except for roughing in a setting, which takes all of 30 seconds, I make every adjustment on my ri... | |
| What I learned on Audiogon This Year I learned that it it's best to buy tickets to the symphony, and go. So I did and I will. | |
| Koetsu Blue Lace Onyx vs. Coralstone Stringreen and Syntax raise a cautionary point. Candy and alchohol both metabolize into sugar.Overindulgence may lead to confused mental states, witness Dr. Lewm's patient obsessing over silly colors, or obesity.Withdrawal management programs are ... | |
| Triplanar is compatible with a Peripheral Clamp Mounting any tonearm at a non-designed distance from the spindle necessarily alters the alignment geometry. It will be impossible for the stylus to track the arc across the platter that was intended by the tonearm's designer. If an arm must be mou... | |
| What Do You Hear When You Adjust VTA? Drrsutliff, I think you meant this thread?Instructions for including links and other things in a post are at the bottom of this page. Click on "markup tags".Glad to hear some of my endless babblings helped. ;)Doug\ | |
| Triplanar is compatible with a Peripheral Clamp You are indeed a brave man! In addition to your sensible question to Tri Mai about the construction of the cap, I'd have been wondered about potential damage or dis-adjustment of the bearings from the pressures of filing, especially with the Riffl... | |
| Cueing/Rega RP1w/Bias 2 cartridge Your dealer provided half the story. Some arms disengage A/S until the stylus touches down, but on Rega's A/S is always engaged (at whatever level the slider's at). Since the arm is always being pulled outward it has a tendency to drift until touc... | |
| Belt for TW Raven Hi Jeff.As you stated, the motor capstan on a Raven is not designed for the 1/2" mylar used by Galibier/Redpoint/Teres tables, so you had to use 1/4" or 3/8".Reducing the contact patch by 25% or 50% is a serious disadvantage. In this application a... |