Priscilla Ahn Sibilance

My copy of Priscilla Ahn's "A Good Day" sounds wonderful with no sibilance at all. You might try dropping the height of the tonearm down just a tad. Sibilance can come from the VTA, (or SRA) being too high. Dropping the rear of the tonearm down will help with this.

My copy doesn't have any sibilance, but the music is extremely ordinary, so it's no great loss. MoFi must think that putting a cute girl in a tee shirt on the cover will get people to buy it. Well, that's why I bought it, but that's me. I played it once and that was enough. If anyone wants to buy it, let me know. (But I'm keeping the cover)

Ehleybay,

In addition to Mofimadness's suggestion, try increasing VTF by a SMALL amount (like .01g if you can, or the smallest adjustment you can make) and replaying the offending passage. Repeat and continue making a tiny VTF increase each time. If your cart is physically mistracking you'll eventually find a VTF setting that improves things.

Note: that "perfect" VTF will only be perfect for that LP on that day. Cartridge break-in, different weather and different LPs may require further adjustments. The optimal VTF for any rig depends on conditions and is always changing.

It's also possible your phono stage just isn't up to reproducing fast transients or certain harmonies cleanly. What SOUNDS like mistracking very often isn't. I'm not familiar with yours so I can't say how likely that is.

Doug

P.S. Chayro, I have several LP covers like that but our optical priorities differ. If you have any with terrible music but cute guys I'll swap you. ;)