The damper, the tension wire and cantilever position


This question is for Dover. I would prefer our ''heighest authority'' Carr but

am reluctant to bather his with possible silly question. Dover however,

whom I regard as ''second authority'' , is used to answer also silli questions.

Now my assumption is that damper to which coills are ,say, pressed

by tension wire  balance cantilever/stylu combo in  ''all directions'';

left and right and above and below . BUT they also MUST FOLLOW

the GROOVES.

My observation however is that also ''deviant'' cantilevers which

nobody would buy look STRAIGHT IN DE GROOVE. Ergo:: it is

the groove which determine cantilevet/stylus position .?

128x128nandric

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Dear pindac,  Am I supposed   to search in the ''endless'' MM thread for

your discussion on ''this subject'' or other ''discussions''? 

Thera are, generaly speking, two mothods for learning. One is ''from

our eperience'', the other ''from our errors''. I wil ''eleaborate'' on the later.

Those usualy start with some confession. My is that I spend an

fortune on straigthening the cantilevers by cartridges which I purchased

with strath cantievers. .The first question was why my friend retipper

Axel Schurholz  as well my new friend retipper from Poland never told

me that this was not , say, necessary? But the other question provided

the answer: why should they? 

The other question is more difficult to answer: what or how deed al

those straith cantolever become ''deviant'' . The only answer is that

some of my cartrideges felt negloected. Mind you I owned +60 samples.

As everybody else  I had also  my darlings. 10 of those ''pre-adjusted''

in their own headshell such that I was able to change them in 5 min.

time on my beloved FR-64 S. (''S'' for steel as well SILVER). .

But I need to wait for Dover In order to check my presupposition. 

 

edgewear, Thanks to be so kind not to take my ascription to fysical

things their own will. I am certainly not Kantian. But I need to correct

your  assumtion about my ''negletcion'' of my ''collection'' of  + 60 carts..

I stated this for them . Those wich are never or only occasionaly

used have the right to feel neglected. What  other possibility for

revenge could they have? All other things are not movable.

I wish you were my neighbour so I could be put you in front

of my Kiseki Agaat ( ''the beauty''')  before connecttion with

the grooves and in the grooves during the act of playing.

You would  than trust your own experience as usual . I will 

however not propose such ''expiment '' to Raul...

because I know his answer in advance :'' it is all about

distortions''. 

 

Dear edgewear, I am  willing to exchange 30 of my cartridges for your Lapis

Lazuli. You will than get 60 and I ONLY 30 cartrideges. The inventor of the

whole Kiseki story was aware of the problem. For thiese who could not

afford  Lapis Lazuli he produced the so called ''poor man Lapis Azuli.'. Aka

Black heart . The ''on;y'' difference being boron cantiler and wood instead 

of diamond cantiever and Lapis  Lazuli jewel, Only available in Afganistan,

I am not sure  if I should inform youa bout this. But ''at present'' as Marlene 

Ditrich stated wondering why American women are so poorly clothed

''at present one can get decent clothes for ony 100000 $''

My assertion was ''based o induction''.  Like sky is the limit in America

so everyone can become rich in America, I as mentioned I spend a fortune 

on  my cruked cantievers so the only one with such ''deviation;'' is my

Kiseki Agaat. This is common practice at present. Becouse Russia 

invaded Ukraine all European country expact Russian invasion. So all

of them increased military spending and souranded Russin Nord borders.

But meanwhlle there is invasion   from the oppistww side with imigrants

from all Africa an midle East. Withouth any weapons. So tehy know how

to defend thesemlf from Putin but have no idea how to defend themself

from the imigrants. I fear USA has similar problem?

l

wolfie 62,

Curious that you answer the question about the ''subject matter''

which you don't understand. 

The most MC carts have an cover plate above the genarator but

some are nacked or as EMT by wich the  genrator is visible.

On the generator one can see ttwo srews on both sides. Those are .

I assume , to ''center '' the cantilever. The tension wire is fastened in

the so called ''joint pipe'' (aluminum tube) in which front side cantilever

is  gluead and coils at its back  side.. Those are called ''the moving  parts''..

The moving parts are connected with the generator on which front side

the damper function as a part ''between''. The usual wire is piano

string  fastened at the back side of the generator. At this end of the

generator the wire can''t be reached or (re) adjusted. But one the 

body of the generator there are two srews which are the only pssible

means to ''correct'' the wire. tension.  If, say, the cantlever ''devition ''

is on the left side the screw on the opposite side can be used to ''center''

the cantilever. One can put tjis also ''otherwise'', Say the damper left side

is as function of time weakened so by pressure on the tension wire

one can compensate the weakening of the damper on this side. 

Your other question is about ''generality'' by which you mean ''ALL

KINDS OF CARTS'''. Say MM as well MC. To me this is like

comparing apples with pears. Or to understan MM thread ''stricto

sensu'' in the sense ''not allowed for MC kinds''. But J.Carr proposed

to include OTHER  KINDS in thie ''MM''  thread. 

 

ANTI-SKATE involved in the ASSERTIONS (aka ''premise''). We all

think in the same way:  from premise to conclusions or deduction.

The DIFFERENCE is DIFFERENT PREMISES. In this context

the LOGIC rules: wrong premise = wrong deductions or conclusions,

There is consensus in our forum that  there is no consensus about

anti-skate.

My first test record contained an part between grooves without grooves.

The so called ''blank-side''. To get the ''right skate'' the stylus should 

stay in the same position; aka no skating of any kind= ''REST''.

Van den Hul was the first who, to my knowledge, warned against this

assumption (=premise). I was shoked because I owned my first tonearm

Sony 237 toghether  with ADC 25 . The assumption was ''the hiigher the

price the better product''. According to the Emglish saying: ''I am not

rich to buy cheap stuff''. My Sony had an ingenious provision for anti-

skate designed to work in accordandance to record surface distaces.

Even the stylus shape was accounted for. Curiously ( ?) there was no

''copycat'' of this invention. Ergo : in the GROOVE cantilever/stylus combo

work different as on or at ''blank side''.  Well the their TASK is to follow the

GROOVE. I..E the groove has , so to speak , the ''leading function''.

That is how I got my conclusions.

 

boxcarman,

Logic apply for all languages while each languge has its own grammar Try to

state  whaever withouy ''X is P'' simple grammar construction. That is

the known ''subject is predicat'' costruction. Very poor for science. 

Try to get some lessons in logic. 

boxcarman, I made an mistake. Logic is to much to ask. Check instead  ''staw man''

strategy by ''discussion.'' . 

Dear edgewear, you may be also interested in HIS as well my ''suspicion''

about misterious  Mr. Fokadu? My is Kondo san. The reasons : he was the

only friend in Japan of Van den Dungen. They shared the obssesion with

tubed  tubed amps. Anyway it is cetrain that he designed all 3 Kiseki

transformers. . For those who ''long for an Kondo SUT'' but can't afford

one the chance to get one Kondo for aa bargain price (grin).

Alesandro think that Dynavectro made them based on the PARTS.

But ,say, Benz produce qll paarts except cantilever/styus combo.

Van den Hul buy all ''his'' parts from Benz. The other also,say 

Brinkmann. The ''problem'' with Alesandro is tha Nandric is as

self-willed as Alesandro. 

The MC's produced on Mars seem to be much better than those

produced on Jupiter. But three is no consensus about MM kinds. 

Assertion that anti-skate causes crooked cantilevers IMPLY that NO ánti-skate 

dees  the same in opposite  direction. .

Dear edgewear,

I forget to mention to you in the context of Lapis  Lazuli this. There is an

italiaan admirer of Kisek's with the name Alesandro. For his Lapis lazuli

which he listed on ''audio-markt.de'' he asked 10000 euro. This anyway

imply money value as valutation of this  cart.

wolfie 62, The thread is about dampers, tension wire and position of

the cantilever. You had nothing to say about any of those. The sense

of any discussion are the ''topics'' in caus.

Dear edgwear, As support for Nandric ''thesis'' about his and Alesandro's character

I must mention that all Blue Kiseki's , which BTW I all own are 5,2 Ohms . Two of

''Kondo's'' SUT's are made for those. The 40 Ohm kinds are an enigma to me..

But as I also mentioned (?) my Kiseki Agaat has ''deviantt cantilever''. My on

induction based argument ( from  one to ALL)  is this  same Agaat.. Despite

crooked cantilever when it really counts the beauty behave as a real LADY.

and folllows  the grooves in straight ''position''. Otherwise ''she'' could not

be described as a BEAUTY . 

Dear mjiostyn, I hate  mathematics my whole life and ''it'' icludes 

geomatry. So I have no idea what you are tolking about. 

Dear pindac, You remind me of ''pubic servants'': why simple if complex

is possible.? My short question is what function have those two screwa on

each side of the generator? Each of my crooked cantiever was corrected

by either Axel Schurholz  or my new Polish 'rettier''. The Polish one much

cheaper because East Europeans need (more)  time to accommodate to

Western prices. If this job is so easy to do there must be some easy way to

fix the problem. ''Easy'' means ''simple''?

Dear edgewear, From wrong assertio or premise one can not get 

triue conclusions. Your premise  is that whole  series  Bleu is 40 Ohms 

while all are 5,2 ohms . For those Kondo san designed 2 SUT's ,

One of them is made from SILVER .Probable from 100 year old

ITALIAN SILVER. This may be the reason for Alessandro's

admiration. BTW for  this one one should be looking . Than those

40 Ohm in between and your Lazuli as well my Black heart are again

5,2  Ohm . The nr 3 SUT is made for both 5.2 as well 40 Ohm but

one need to switch  between them with ALL intermediary wire,  Not

what one would call ''pure ' or conssequent  solution . . 

 

Dear pindac, I think that you have no understanding of damper function

in connection with coil former. The coil is pressed against damper

with tension wire. So tension wire ''center'' the cantilever. Those two

srews on the generator are connected with tension wire, By pressing

one or the  other side the cantolever position can be changed. Aka

''corrected''. Otherwise their function would be incomprehensible,

Today my son and I checked the Agaat with ''deviant cantlever''

iby playing records. The stylus is straith in the grooves, Ergo the 

grooves center the cantllever. The coill / damper combo follow

the stylus in the groove. Those are very ''small'' presures . Try

to move the stylus /cantilever with very smal pressure to see

how ''elastic'' they are . In most cases 2 g VTF is used . This 

actully cqn;t be called ''weight''. 

Dear edgewear, Hume's ''proudness  of ownership'' make no sense if

one  has no idea what  all he owns. I think that he was very poor man.

Those can certainly remember what  they own. The ''abundance'' of 

 of my carts collection  is illustration. I forget to mention Shinon Red

boron.  If you look at this cart you can se ''the same parts''' as by Kiseki.

This was curiously the argument  for Alessandro to state that

Dynavector produced Kiseki's. To me this means that one could 

buy parts by Dynavector as by Benz. But ''parts'' of Kondo-san 

cart would be obvious as parts of Kiseki. This than would not 

need expanation for  the misterious Mr. Fokadu. 

Dear edgewear, I am very sorry to see your reaction. I very much enjoy discussion

with you. Now regarding dover I am as surprised as you are. I can't imgaine any

reason for him not to like me. Except for my reference to New  Zealand as Dutch

Zeeland, But he is an American  so he should not feel insulted by my  jokes

about New Sealand. BTW it is Zeeland . I know this Province in Holland .. 

As an  scientist he probably want to first check my finding with his own

experiment. If those don't produce the same result he maybe so polite not to

contradict my ''theory'' in order not to embarrass his forum friend,

not  

 

Mijostyn,I have no idea where you live. Alaska? But in Holland  for ''those prices''

the TT, the tonearm as well the cart are installed by the dealer. Do you missed

all those arguments of our beloved Dover? How many  (whole) STEREO''S  he 

installed for his customers. Their rewards caused by gratude was such that

he was able to move to(Dutch ) New Sealand and enjoy ''rich live'' at distance

from the poluted USA of America, with better wine than those made in

California not to mention HOLY WATER my real reason to visit him there.

I certainly need ''some'' at  my age. As ONE can conclude from my thought s

about Hume I am not poor.  So can buy my own wine  there and be independant

from dover's hospitality consisting of  an half glas of wine. 

 

Dear pindac, It is the other way round. It is called student paradox. If an

student does not understand whatever his professor has stated he will

no blame professor but himself. The professor is an genius and I am

not sufficient smart to understand him. Examples in abundace. Each

and every German know who Kant and Hegel are but hardly any have

heard about Frege the father of modern logic. I eeded to learn English

because tthe most information about Frege was in English

Take Wittgenstein as example. I have no idea what he counts as

phylosphy but in his ''phylosopical invetigation'' he wrote 10000

phylosphical REMARKS while an normal person can remember, say,

about 10. Who would expect support for such ''modest opinion'' about

human mind? 

Well I got it from Fermi ''from'' particle physics by particle physicist.

He stated;''If i was smarter I coud rememeber more of those particles''.

When I  read your post I feel like ''those students''.

About ''egos'' or members. There ara those who think that their

English is a kind of priviledge in intellectual sense. I got remarks 

as  : ''your  English is second languge.'' . My answer was 

''my English is my 5th language''. I got no answer from this

''tickheaded person''. They don't grasp that their own forum

is international. I myself  was  seen as the member of the

''German group'' (with my beloved ''der Tonearm'' and Syntax).

If someone is to blame for my English thsn our Lew.

I decaalred him as my English  teacher. so those who intend

to blame MY English should address their post to Lew. 

 

pindac, this tread is not about you nor me. So nether ego is involved. The

topic  is about ''function together of mentioned ''parts'' + LP groove.

The grammar force us to put everything in ''subject-predicate'' sentence

form but grammar has problems with ''relational'' phenomena's. Now

I am not talking about defective cantilevers nor dampers nor tension

wire. But about wat I named ''deviations''. One can see deviation of the

cantilever from ''straight'' position. If one own an +5K cart this may be

called ''shocking'' experiece  The poorer kind among us also by +200$.

But if we know that ''small deviation from straigth'' is not ''what it looks

like'' we can sleep well. The first to blame is not cantilever but damper.

We all know (?) that as ''function of time'' they can ''harden'' or 'dry

out'' or become ''weak'' or ''to soft''. We deed not yet mention ''low

riders''. But  we do remember  those phantastic Technics 205 (?)

kinds which become wortless  because of the ''soft damber. No way

to fix those. Not only ''monetary'' loss but also ''sentimental'' kind.of

sorrow.

So we have , speaking in language of formula's, 4 variables. The only

''one'' that I am not sure about are those 2 srews on the generator.

That is why I asked for DOVER'S help. But the (Dutch) New Sealand

PRIMA DONNA  feels probably ''insulted' one way or the other and

refuse to cooperate. I changed my mind about him and will not visit

him in his new country. Besides I can buy my own wine from Italy or

France. Compared to HIS  who would care  about New ZEELAND kind?

Dear pindac, the expression ''it depends'' is short and easy to remembar and

very  smart   as reminder not to use quantifier  ALL when starting from our

own opinion. I owned  all Ikeda's FR 7 kinds. Those are from the 80is. 

Each of them was perfect in technical sense but I decided to keep F7,ez.

I also got after waiting for for 2 years his REX, the cantileveless kind.

Both are my most precious ''darlings''. No idea how he deed ''it'' but I have

never heard complaints about his dampers. In contradistinction the recent

purchased ZYX had defective damper. I ever started an thread about

IRREPARBLE carts. To my big surprise nobody was interested. My

reason was Sony XL 88D (D for diamond ). I am not sure if back than

acrilic existed so i will name it ''plastic body''. Gloed together and provided

with damping material inside to dampen resonaces. But there was no

way to get IN for any repair. So my friend Axel Shurholz, who described

this ''stuff'' as glue was not able to fix this ''wonder''. Our architect 

from Australia calld  AUSSIE declared this cart as the best he

ever owned. Mori-san made two innovations for this XL sereis.

8 form coils and internal damping. In the 80is one could buy

an Volkswagen for its price. So whatever the function of time 

may be ''deterioration'' is not  always the case. BTW also

all my Kiseki's from the 80 are much better then the ''brand 

new'' kind. The later are ''collectivly'' offered for sale while

my Agaat and Black heart are nowhere to find. 

 

 

Dear Lew, I don't remember exact what Caesar said to Briuus but by

approximation : ''ET TU, BRUTE!''. Tha is how I feel with your

''support'' for your student. Mind you you very well know who

my ''best proffesor of my life'' was despit the fact that I never have

seen him but leaned from  him by his books and articles, G.Frege

the GREAT. In similar way I try to learn from you English. I have

never forget your writer inclination and talent. To put this otherwise

I enjoyed all you post despite the fact tha deed not undersand aything you

had to say. Copicat is at present ''the method''  of lerning. Look

at all those mobile phones. There is a new definition of poverty. 

Not lack of bread but lack of I-phone is considerd as such.

Anyway I expect from you at least support against this ''fake''

New Zeelander . Whatever their wiine it has nothing to do with

HIM. 

 

Dear Lew, You should not use American abreviation by addressing 

foreigners who already have difficulty to undertsanr your eloquent

English.''As simple as possible but not simpler ''as you ever stated

to be your credo. I have no idea what WAM means. 

kennes, I don't believe I mentioned ''stylus angle'' in my thread. 4 variables

are obviously not sufficient for you. The most people can hardly handle

2 as the sentnce form prove : X is P. In place of variable X one can put

whatever name one like and in place of P as predicate varibale whatever

''property'', ''qualification'',or ''condemnation'', one want. My point was

that the cantilever must follow ''YOUR STYLUS'' in both directions: vertical

as well horizontal while this is allowed by damper's elasticity in both named

direction. If the cantileevr /stylus combo refuse to do so than either the

damper is dry out or to soft . In this case whatever shape your stylus may

have you will not get any sound from all 4 variables values, 

Dear pindac, I am an suspicious creature and think that you invented an

difficult to ''grasp'' variation on ''strow man'' strategy. My intentions

are not hiden. Anyone can try his '''not straith cantilever'' to check my

assertion. Those who start with the whole adjustments procedure in

''static position'' obviously have forgotten the words of our first

real scientis Galileo : ''it moves''. Despite all the dangers of

Catholic inquisition. He  also was the firat who refute Aristoteles

physics who dominated western education for 2000 years.

Based on his authority. That is why back than there was no

discrimintion betweem ''authority'' and ''verity''.

Pindac, To check my finding you need an cart with deviation to the left or

right side from straight and than simply repeat my experiment. If you don't

get the  same result , aka straight cantilever during the play than my ''theory''

is  wrong provided the damper is not defective. If the damper is defective

you can't play an rocord. Either the cantileevr will not  move at all or it will

colapse becaiuse the damper is to sofd  (low rider. )

Whatever description of the result in the sense of denial or confirmation

will than do..

 

I am realy sorry for ONE more post to my own thread but those numbers

forced me , so to speak, to think about them. In context with Wittgenstein.

I was skeptical about his understaning about what phylosophy is about.

The reason? His ''phylosophical investigation'' . In ''there'' he made

10000 phylosophical remarsk while in my opinion is  that an normal

person can rememer, say, 10. I also got some support from ''particle

physics'' .

Now according to Raul the main target of this forum is that teach memeber

can learn to improve listening experience.

So I thought about thiose numbers and  was able to see his numbers of post: 12307. 

But this is even more than the, say, modest 10000 by

Wittgenstain. 

Yes Raul this thread is about me. I am damper. tension wire , cantilever and

stylus. All 4 variables work togther as myself.  There are limtless ways  to

use ''straw man'' strategy. My I remind  you abot you past? When you

bought , say, 25 cartridges and posted to Axel Schurjolz for ''refreshnemt''

without even listen to them first?  I have never seen any post of you in

wjich parts of your beloved carts are even mentioned . My quess is that

you have no idea how an MC cart looks inside. But you do often mention

LEVELS OF knowledge in Kantian  sense . Aka that you own this quality or

capability  A PRIORI. Delevered by Raul tor Raul. 

You must have at least one cart with ''deviant cantilever'' in your collection

as I do.  People start with some assertion believen it to be true and act in accordingly  with their assertion. My was that any deviation  from straight

meant defective cantikever. But I never tested tthis assertion but posted them

direct to Axel  Schurholz NOT FOR REFRESHMENT  but to get ''my cantileevr '' straight. 

You could check my new EGO by putting any of your cart with deviant cantiever

to test and THAN either DENY  OR CONFIRM my experiment.

BTW there can be only one PRIMA DONNA in our forum. You was but

at present we have one other. The fake New Zeelander. Whatever the

wine there he has, in your own terminoly, much HIHGER LEVEL OF

KNOWLEDGE REGARDING OUR hobby.. However he OBVIOUSLY

DOES NOT HAVE ANY CART WITH DEVIANT CANTILEVER SO NOT

IN THE POSITION TO DENY OR CONFIRM Nandric ''THEORY''. 

There is this ''curious'' theory that  ''NUMBERS DON"T LIE''. I WAS 

SURPRISED TO SEE HOW MANY CONTRIBUTION i MADE TO

THIS FORUM: + 4000.  But in comparisson with Rauls  12307. 

The numbers in other ''function''. Instead to check my finding by simply

repetition of my ''expeiment'' Raul made the effort to count the numbers

of my posts in relation to other posts. The ressult : 37 by Nandric  from

the TOTAL of (ONLY) 58 by others. . What kind of ''argument'' is this?

I would say that this says more about Raul than Nandric. .

 

pindac, regarding semantics you are at the right address. I am student of

logic, semantics and phylosophy of language for 30 years. But we are not

talking about semantics but about an experiment which can be done by

anyone. If they can't repeat the experiment this means denial of

my ''proposition'' or if they do confirmation. As you can SEE this is not

about semantics. I already have try to make this clear to you but obiviously

without succes. Do you own any cart with ''deviant cantilever''? I don't

believe this because if you deed you would repeat experiment and

not mess with definitions or explanation of words.

My support from particle physiscs was ''slightly'' different than my quote.

Fermi stated ''if I could rememeber the names of those partcles I would

have been a botanist''.

But my promblem is to explain how it is  possible to get support from

particle physics but not from ''our own Dover'? I think to have found the 

reason. As we all know he owns the best everiting in collectors sense:

the best TT's, the best tonearms, the best amps, the best SUT, etc.

the best. But my insult made by  impliction of my insinuation was that

he OWNS A CART with ''deviant cantilever''. Can you imagine such thing

by one perfectionist? But I only needed help for those damn screws on

both sides of the generator, I have pretty good idea what they are for

but am not sure. Even If I was willing to destroy one of my own carts

I have no idea how to do this. Those are smal metal tubes while i own two left 

hands. So the cheapest and most smart thing to do was to ask our second

authority regarding the knowledge of analog everything. But alas the

damage done can't be restored.

 

 

 

 

Curious that we all hope on  ''extension''  of our hobby with more members

but proposed ''interplanitary'' extension by @ terraplane8bob got no

attention at all.

Also the problem with two screws which I ''suspected'' to have somtehing

to do with tension wire is solved. Instead waiting for dovers help I simply

asked my Polish retipper who, alas, only speaks Polish. The problem

with them is when you ask  ''are you Slavic?'' their answer is ''no we are

catholic'', He uees some , probably Japanese translator so we needed

some time to understand each other. I was not sufficient brave to ask

him if he speaks Russian. However he affirmed that those (damn) srews

are for the tension wire.