The Soundsmith is not broken in yet. Phono carts break in a lot. Don't judge it until you have at least 100 hours in it.
Setting anti skate on a VPI for Soundsmith cart
Ok I went to the Soundsmith site and read up on AS for VPI tables.
I have the Soundsmith Carmen MKii (brand new) and I'm have a slight case of silibance. I'm trying to adjust my AS (using the VPI rig) and the Soundsmith directions but I'm a bit confused. As I understand it your supposed to set it such that the needle tracks slowly to the center when sitting on the blank space not in the groove at the end of a record - while he doesn't specifically say I'm assuming this test is done with the TT on. The the problem is that no matter how few rubber o rings I use the arm moves to the outside not slowly to the inside. In fact, I can remove all the rubber rings and it will still move to the outside. In any case the silibance still remains so I'm not sure where to go from here. Is it better to up or lower the TF? My headshell is level, my azimuth is level.
I have the Soundsmith Carmen MKii (brand new) and I'm have a slight case of silibance. I'm trying to adjust my AS (using the VPI rig) and the Soundsmith directions but I'm a bit confused. As I understand it your supposed to set it such that the needle tracks slowly to the center when sitting on the blank space not in the groove at the end of a record - while he doesn't specifically say I'm assuming this test is done with the TT on. The the problem is that no matter how few rubber o rings I use the arm moves to the outside not slowly to the inside. In fact, I can remove all the rubber rings and it will still move to the outside. In any case the silibance still remains so I'm not sure where to go from here. Is it better to up or lower the TF? My headshell is level, my azimuth is level.