My thoughts exactly chakster. Cakyo, your arm is depending on the erroneous fact that most cartridges are build correctly. You can adjust the azimuth slightly by raising and lowering the back of the arm if that is possible. Azimuth is more important than stylus rake angle IMHO. You raise the arm and the stylus will tilt to the right as you view the stylus from the front, down and it will tilt to the left. All of the better cartridges I have aligned are close enough that this method will work.
shibata or microline, pls respond ONLY if you specifically have tried both.
I only want to hear FIRST hand experience, not lecturing please.
These two seem too confusing to me. I have a VM540ML AT cartridge and cannot decide whether Shibata or Microline is better. AGAIN, PLS DO NOT LECTURE ME ABOUT **OTHER** EXPENSIVE CARTRIDGES.
To me obviously the music quality matters. However, I also give a lot of importance to how durable one stylus over the other one is AND very importantly, which one is easier (less finnicky) to set up. Also, it is important that the stylus does not degrade the vinyl excessively.
If you tell me an elliptical is easiest to set up but is 10% less musical, I would probably go with that too.
So.... any ACTUAL experience with either of these two styli ?
Thanks
These two seem too confusing to me. I have a VM540ML AT cartridge and cannot decide whether Shibata or Microline is better. AGAIN, PLS DO NOT LECTURE ME ABOUT **OTHER** EXPENSIVE CARTRIDGES.
To me obviously the music quality matters. However, I also give a lot of importance to how durable one stylus over the other one is AND very importantly, which one is easier (less finnicky) to set up. Also, it is important that the stylus does not degrade the vinyl excessively.
If you tell me an elliptical is easiest to set up but is 10% less musical, I would probably go with that too.
So.... any ACTUAL experience with either of these two styli ?
Thanks