dougdeacon
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| Killing sibilance distortion - VPI & Jubilee One more thought: try increasing the space between the wires coming from the cartridge clips as much as possible. Spread them as far apart as you can without dragging on the record surface. Probably won't help with the sibilance problem, but may l... | |
| Killing sibilance distortion - VPI & Jubilee I've tried quite a few things, including different cartridges, and VTF, VTA and antiskate settings, but the sibilance is always there.Sounds like a clue to me. Let's apply Occam's razor...With all you've tried, why are you still assuming the probl... | |
| TWL mod for Rega RB600 arm---help needed Will,The weights need to be wider than the nuts, so you can drill them out to a snug-ish fit. The fit doesn't need to be exact. I super glued mine on and they worked great.The wire thingy is what Joe referred to as "Paul's adjustable VTF tweak", i... | |
| VTA setting for 'parabolic' and 'elliptical' styli Raul,Just kidding about "madness". You're right about organization and discipline. The longer you do this the easier it gets. Record keeping makes it quick and practice makes your ears better. Like Dertonarm we usually adjust without even thinking... | |
| VTA setting for 'parabolic' and 'elliptical' styli Raul's memory of how Paul and I play is correct. This craziness is not mandatory, unless your name is Doug or Dertonarm or you have Paul's ears.We write each LP's optimal arm height on a sticky note on the record jacket or sleeve. Setting height f... | |
| Servo Controlled Arm Sorry to the OP for my generic response, not related to his arm. I read "servo controlled" and assumed we were discussing a linear tracker. "Servo dampened" would have clued me in to googling first. Thanks to Hiho and Kirkus for addressing the rea... | |
| Servo Controlled Arm Heh! If avoiding skipping were the only criterion for tonearm performance, virtually every tonearm would be a contender. ;-)The theoretical problem with servo control of a tangential tracking arm is that, by definition, correction doesn't kick in ... | |
| help with cartridge selection Stefanl,You're right about those numbers of course. The 103's real compliance has been known for many years, long before John Ellison ever posted about it. My guidance was not based on arm/cart resonance calculations, which are only useful for avo... | |
| help with cartridge selection No experience with any of those cartridges, or with your tonearm for that matter, but what the cartridges that reportedly perform well on your arm all have in common is fairly high compliance. This makes perfect sense. Your arm is relatively low i... | |
| MintLP arc protractor Since a Rega is not designed for Baerwald, *some* cartridges may be too short (from the plane of the mounting holes to the stylus) to be aligned using that scheme. The headshell slots may not allow shorter cartridges to be slid far enough forward ... | |
| MintLP arc protractor Finding the horizontal pivot point on my OL Silver (modded RB-250) was trivially easy...1. Mount the arm to the table (no cartridge needed, keep the stylus guard in place if it's already mounted).2. Stick a piece of scotch tape across the top of t... | |
| cart measurement vs quoted spec I'd rather stay in my corner. With the extra bass loading it really rocks in here! Also, it makes it easy for your slings and arrows to find me. ;-) Glad things are sounding better. :-) | |
| cart measurement vs quoted spec I like watchin' ya'll suffer fer a bit. Drives the lesson home! Wally's price musta bin based on the cost o' them filters. It shore weren't based on the quality of th' box or th' terminals. One of 'em darn near gouged up a connector on a $3K pair ... | |
| cart measurement vs quoted spec Unless you guys include a notch filter to attenuate frequencies above/below the test tone, you're wasting your time using a multi-meter. Surface noise, intra-vinyl resonances and warp wow will muddy the signal you're trying to measure with random ... | |
| anyone use ikea for lp racks? I use Ikea Effektiv because- it's more heavily and solidly built than Expedit - solid back included, so no tipping or leaning- it's a modular design, so readily expandable- it fit my space betterStart with this on the floor: Effektive plinthAttac... |