INNER GROOVE DISTORTION


Seasons greetings! I have a VPI Prime Sig. with a Soundsmith " The Voice " cart. and am having an issue with inner groove distortion. I don't use anti-skating, just twisting the cable going to the junction box. I will be upgrading the arm to a Fatboy soon and when the tech comes to set it up we will address the issue. On some records I can't listen to the last song! Frustrating, any feedback will be appreciated. Also, have Pass XP-25, ARC Ref 3 and 75 with ML ESL11A's. Thanks.
joeyfed55

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I must confess to have been very proud when I succeeded to
get 90 microns ''pure'' (without any buzz) with my (then) Ortofon
MC 20 with the help of my test record. The part about ''tracking
ability'' test. But then I come across the warning by Van den Hul:
''no antiskate is better than too much antiskate''. To get those
''impressieve'' 90 microns I needed to increase antiskate force.
So whenever ''buzz'' appeared in the right channel I increased the
anti skate. But thanks to Van den Hul I still have no idea how
much anti-skate is ''allowed''. So I use 0,5 g force for each cart.