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Thoughts on VTA......

I have read countless posts where members are spending hours on exacting setup of their VTA with varying levels of tools.

Then there is another camp who set by ear.

My thoughts/questions on this subject arise from vinyl thickness difference.

Surely going from a flimsy flier early 70,s vinyl to a later 180 or even 200gm issue is going to change that painstakingly set VTA considerably.

So thoughts rattling round is why go to all that trouble when it IS going to change depending on the vinyl played?

To my mind it would appear that one of the arms that includes on the fly VTA adjustment would be the answer.

Your opinions or suggestions?
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orpheus10
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Raul, I'm looking at my stylus at eye level, with the diamond just sitting on the record, and it looks precisely like the drawing on this link.


            https://www.tnt-audio.com/sorgenti/vta_e.html


This is with the Rega arm and table. If this is what the wood bodied Grado Master looks like, what adjustment do you think I need?
orpheus10
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"Stereophile" rates the Rega RP10 as a class "A" turntable, and since I spent an entire year evaluating "Sterophiles" rating system, I consider it valid.

In this game, one must come to one's own conclusions.
orpheus10
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Raul, you and everyone else posting on this thread should read this article carefully;


      https://www.tnt-audio.com/sorgenti/vta_e.html


In regard to the music, and the non-adjustable VTA of the Rega tone arm; as long as I'm enjoying the best music I have ever heard in my life from records that I've heard a zillion times before now, and the Rega Tone arm is assisting in my euphoria; the case is closed and moot.
orpheus10
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VTA must not be that important, because Rega does not provide an adjustment for it; not even on their top model, the RP10.

I am ever so delighted with my Rega, and consider VTA just one less thing I have to contend with.


orpheus10
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Mgolpoor, although I'm too satisfied with Rega to change, I often wondered about that VTA adjustment. Now that you've put that to rest,I can sleep better.
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