Mistracking-what instrument or type of sound...

is most likely to produce it?

Thanks much, I am and will be evaluating some cartridges.

mtrot08-06-2007 5:01am

kjweisner Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 293 posts 08-06-2007 at 03:21pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete The Hi Fi News test record has several tracking "torture" tracks (side 1, tracks 6-9). Typically used to set anti-skate, they provide a 300 Hz test tone, and each track increases the amplitude. In other words, each track is successively harder to track without introducing distortion in the form of a very audible buzz.
tbg Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 5,263 posts 08-06-2007 at 07:01pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Keep reducing the tracking force on the cartridge and you will hear it. Once you do, you will know it forever.
dougdeacon Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 3,338 posts 08-06-2007 at 08:44pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Very well recorded classical piano, provided it's "big" piano music like Beethoven or Liszt. Speakers Corner reissue of Clifford Curzon playing Liszt is my toughest piano LP. Ashkenazy/Beethoven sonatas on English pressed Decca/London is not quite as tough, but close. Very well recorded operatic tenors and baritones. Operas on German EMI are the toughest-to-track LP's I own.