Turntable sounds so much better when...

Dear @vinylholicmusic: " Please help me understand "". Well I think that no one rigth now has the true about.

@ivan_nosnibor post can be true or not at all because the relationship between the TT mat/LP surface/ stylus tip / cantilever/ cartridge body characteristics / headshell / screws-nuts to hold cartridge-headshell / tonearm collar / tonearm arm wand material and damping levels / tonearm bearing / tonearm arm board / etc, etc, is extremely complex to be sure what is happening down there to achieve the kind of sound you are talking about.

As a fact your cartridge/TT/tonearm does not """  that the tighter the connecting fastener that joins two surfaces, the greater the tendency for both material parts to (vibrationally) act as one """, it can't do it for those to many links in that overall chain.

Have I a true explanation ?, no I have not because ( between other things. ) I'm not listening to your system to figure what changes happened and if those changes in reality/true were for the better. Yes, your ears said it but those are your ears.

Try to explain your " fact " is almost imposible because that so complex vibration/resonances generated in between de whole " chain ".

You posted something realy interesting because I used in my system when the tonearm/removable headshell can't be moved of azymuth position:

"""  .and maybe it's allowing the stylus to position itself in the vinyl better! """

that could be because exist no perfect alignment between removable headshell trhough the arm collar. In theory when both are gas tigth connected the alignment is " perfect " with no azymuth deviation.
Now, the extremely critical alignment between the cartridge stylus tip and the LP grooves has to be " perfect " but this never exist in pivoted tonearms not even with LT ones.
A " minute " azymuth change makes differences for the better ( as you experienced. ) or for the worse.
As I said I used that trick in the past.

Anyway the important issue is that you are happy as never before. Good !.

Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS,
R.

and maybe VTA/SRA.

Thank-you R. I have had this Turntable for years it's 1978 model..Never did i hear it Better untill 2 days ago...I am just delighted at the improvement..including absoulty No Sibblince in songs that was very present.i.e.Peter Gabriel "So" Richard

All you guys have been incredibly helpfull to me with understanding the reasoning why...And to think i was unsure of posting for fear of being rejected i guess. Thanks All.. Please at least try this if you have a removable headshell..and let us know..Richard

Sounds like when you loosen the head arm connection you are cutting it off from a direct connection of the negative, stifling, resonance that takes place in the arm itself.  The cartridge sends micro vibrations down the arm and that arm when locked tight fights how the cartridge wants to vibrate. The principle is like the old Victrolas that used to amplify the needle vibrations  into a big horn.  So.. You are decoupling the arm (to a degree) that has resonances that fight the cartridge from flowing optimally.