dougdeacon
Responses from dougdeacon
| Cartridge Suggestions for a Black Widow Tonearm The original question was not if a mid-low compliance cartridge would "work" on a low mass arm. Of course it will work, but that wasn't the question. The question was and is, will it work OPTIMALLY. IME, the answer is that is will work somewhat di... | |
| How to set anti-skate on Thorens Tonearm ??? Agree with Dekay.The second post on this thread is also helpful. Anti-skate cannot be (usefully) set by any scale or numbers on a tonearm (even if it has good instructions). The only relevant way to adjust antiskate is by ear, using the LP's you... | |
| AntiSkate-crooked Cantilever correlation? Mmakshak,You actually read all that?! Just to be clear, all that high-falutin' crap was just a longwinded "not likely" to Markd51's question regarding cantilever/suspension canting. Everyday playing is much simpler than that, thank goodness!Like y... | |
| AntiSkate-crooked Cantilever correlation? Very true. Skating force is unlikely to affect the suspension at all, for the reasons I described. OTOH, ANTI-skating force is not necessarily small. Some tonearms allow you to apply quite a lot (though rarely more than ~10% of VTF). Anti-skating ... | |
| AntiSkate-crooked Cantilever correlation? Hi Mark,Interesting question. To attempt a meaningful answer we must think about the two forces in question, skating and anti-skating. Let's consider skating first.Skating force is a function of headshell offset angle on a pivoting tonearm. Assumi... | |
| Feickert Protractor - anyone use one? Henry,FIRSTWhat Dan_Ed said. SECONDMy TT spindle has a lathe mark that's dead center. Easy to see and measure precisely. Your spindle doesn't have a center mark? You can make your own - for free. How? Simple. Mark a dot, as tiny and precise as you... | |
| tone arm drifts towards the outside when lowering Assuming a tonearm is unconstrained in the lateral plain during cueing (everything level, dust- and dirt-free, low friction bearings in good shape and properly adjusted, tonearm wire twist and other lateral forces eliminated, little friction betwe... | |
| Feickert Protractor - anyone use one? The $250 Feickert does indeed measure spindle-to-pivot accurately. A $2 ruler does also.More money for whiskey and music! | |
| Arm and cart resonance range -- discussion Further agreement with Syntax. Those numbers won't tell you anything about how a particular combination will sound. All they can do is identify a serious mis-match, and those are rare.The large majority of today's cartridge/arm combos resonate clo... | |
| Need advice from Triplanar mk.7 owners Aha! Now I see the problem. Of course this explains why the azimuth adjustment pin needs to be angled so.This shouldn't be acceptable in an arm at this price point. I answered an email from Salavat before spotting this thread and suggested that if... | |
| Feickert Protractor - anyone use one? More agreement with Stiltskin.Even if the lines on the Feickert were as fine as those on the Mint, which they're not, it would still suffer from the fatal flaw of not being built on a mirror.Without the parallax effect afforded by a mirror, it's i... | |
| Need advice from Triplanar mk.7 owners The arm looks normal to me, though the user obviously hasn't centered the azimuth adjustment.The first photo (when maximized on screen) clearly shows that the pin is adjusted to a position that's WAY anti-clockwise from vertical.The threads on the... | |
| How effective is the Onzow Zerodust? A ZeroDust will do no harm, but by itself it won't clean a stylus completely. Liquid products work better, but they pose some risks and are not quite as effective as the Magic Eraser. The ME also poses some risks (so does any stylus cleaning metho... | |
| TriPlanar Tips Pradeep,Glad you took the time to try this teeny tweak. A subtle and mild "you're welcome" back to you. :-) | |
| TriPlanar Tips Lew,Your experience is consistent with other posters including myself, on this thread and others. The amount of anti-skating required is indeed cartridge dependent. This is no surprise if we think about how skating force is generated.Skating force... |