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| crackles & pops Cerrot,Good news: you found an adjustment that helped. :-)Bad news: if raising VTF reduced clicks and pops they may have been due to mistracking, in which case you may have been damaging your LP's.Out of curiosity, why were you playing with VTF be... | |
| record cleaning findings/puzzle I didn't say alchohol would produce a cleaner record. I said it wouldn't leave a sonic signature. I use an alchohol step in my regimen for only one reason: to de-nature any enzymes left behind by my first cleaning step, which involves a soak in an... | |
| record cleaning findings/puzzle Excellent experiment. Thanks for the interesting results and questions.I assume there is a sonic print to my solution, is achohol typically bright/harsh sounding?There may be a sonic residue from either of your methods, but it won't be from the al... | |
| Bent Cant, Can't get azimuth right. Does it matter Excellent primer from Dertonarm regarding adjusting VTF. Exactly how I do it. Reduce VTF in TINY increments until bass/dynamics suffer, then bump it back up a TINIER amount, but not so far that you lose HF extension, microdynamics, speed or "air".... | |
| How much difference does a phono stage make? Agree with all the above. I've owned $150 cartridges and $5,000 cartridges. I also own an $1,800 preamp and a $12,000 one. Like Syntax, if I had to pair the lesser of one with the greater of the other - and could only keep one combo - I'd keep the... | |
| Killing sibilance distortion - VPI & Jubilee Search for stylus types on www.cartridgedb.com. There are many cartridges to choose from. You probably appreciate this already, but clearly there's no such thing as a "hot" stylus, at least if that's meant to imply "too hot". That's a logical impo... | |
| How Does the Soundsmith Pentatonia,Good report. You are one of only a handful of people I've "met" who's actually heard any model ZYX with the gold coils, and I entirely agree with you. I actually think you were a bit too polite (just like that cartridge!). The gold coil... | |
| Killing sibilance distortion - VPI & Jubilee Agreed. Stylus contact radius is a factor in meeting challenges like this. You can't accurately trace short wavelength, high amplitude modulations with a stylus that's fatter than the modulations themselves. You also can't do fast laps around the ... | |
| How Does the Soundsmith Excellent comparison by Dgad. As best one can tell from our pathetic attempts to describe music and sound in words, we heard similar things.The Voice is more like a big muscle car. Tons of power but a bit smoother. It just goes.Exactly right.Wheth... | |
| Whats the best $1500 tonearm for a Teres Artemus_5,For clarity, did you move the tonearm from your MMF-7 to the Scoutmaster? Or did you use the Goldring Elite on a VPI JMW arm? Curious as to why you had that problem... | |
| Whats the best $1500 tonearm for a Teres As Syntax said, mating between cartridge and table is not a significant concern. Neither is mating between tonearm and table, at least not with a table like yours (able to fit nearly any tonearm, no suspension to be thrown out of balance).I don't ... | |
| How effective is the Onzow Zerodust? ME can also leave residue on the stylus, and the particles are microscopic and very abrasive. Read my original how-to (linked in the post above). It's mandatory to brush or Zero-Dust after each use. ME is highly effective but must be used with car... | |
| How effective is the Onzow Zerodust? Salavat is correct, but Eric is MORE correct. :-)A Scotch-Brite pad is made from the same chemical as a Magic Eraser, but the physical composition of the two products is quite different as to scale.A Scotch-Brite pad's fibers are much thicker and ... | |
| How Does the Soundsmith Raul,I received that Ortofon MM you recommended but I've not posted on your MM/MI thread because I haven't actually heard it yet. I wouldn't think it useful or courteous to post about something I haven't heard, would you?Slowhand, We heard the Voi... | |
| How Does the Soundsmith I agree with Teres' comparison of the Voice with a Jade Platinum. Of course revealing that a cartridge is faster and more articulate than a Koetsu will win us neither friends nor golden ear awards. Theyll be crying "Death!" on one side and "Duh!"... |