mint best tractor gone?

MintLP seems to be defunct, sorry to day. Several emails by me and others have gone unanswered over the past few months.

For modern systems the best alignment is Lofgren B.

@mijostyn , agreed. For years I used Baerwald/Lofgren A. Switching to Lofgren B yielded obvious improvement. Wallytractors offer both curves. I believe Yip used Baerwald for the ones he made me long ago but I can find no documentary evidence.

I did a similar experiment two days ago, setting up a Benz TR on a Phantom Supreme using a dedicated Wallytractor’s Lofgren A curve, then the Lofgren B curve. All other parameters were as close to identical as I could make them. Lofgren B was (and is, since I am listening to it now) obviously better. Good enough? It is for me.

And just to up the ante: I have another TR, a new one with maybe 40 hours, on another armwand. Before the experiment, when both were aligned using A, I thought this new one sounded better than the older one, which had been rebuilt. They can be easily swapped. I think the rebuilt one, aligned with B, now sounds better to me. Not a definitive experiment. Everything is not controlled. But I’m sticking with B. FWIW, YMMV, yadda yadda.

It’s certainly possible that my casual experiment only revealed errors in my original alignments using Lofgren A. But I’m really happy with the sound realigned with B so I’m taking the win.

At some point I’ll test again by changing the new TR to B and see if I hear a difference

@rauliruegas , Maybe I just got lucky with the B alignment and associated parameters, and then rushed to judgement. But I certainly prefer how it sounds now, and will keep using B until my “luck” changes.