Stltrains,
I recently asked for the Forums help with my set-up (VPI Aries 3 / 10.5i plus / Dynavector 17D3), and you and others responded with a lot of valuable hints and advice. My situation was getting the anti-skating adjusted. The 17D3 seems to be a "bugger" to set-up on a uni-piviot..but thanks to all the tips and advice, I feel that I have it tracking everything I currently own (LPs) at 99%. Considering I am now using 6 VPI supplied o-rings for weight on the VPI A/S device, I can't imagine going back to a twisted wire in my situation. I am sure that every cartridge will react differently to the 10.5i and there may be many that will track okay with the minimal anti-skate force afforded by the twisted wire method, but I have now come to believe that a mechanical A/S is a necessity to truly fine tune any cartridge on the 10.5i uni. Audiophiles attempt to adjust every parameter, VTF; VTA; Azimuth; Overhang; Viscous damping; Tangency alignment, and probably 10 more paramenters either real or imagined, but all with extreme percision and acuracy. So okay, anti-skate is a moving target (force) and changes continously across the record and from record to record but so do many of the other forces, so why would we not try to optimize the anti-skate parameter as well?
I recently asked for the Forums help with my set-up (VPI Aries 3 / 10.5i plus / Dynavector 17D3), and you and others responded with a lot of valuable hints and advice. My situation was getting the anti-skating adjusted. The 17D3 seems to be a "bugger" to set-up on a uni-piviot..but thanks to all the tips and advice, I feel that I have it tracking everything I currently own (LPs) at 99%. Considering I am now using 6 VPI supplied o-rings for weight on the VPI A/S device, I can't imagine going back to a twisted wire in my situation. I am sure that every cartridge will react differently to the 10.5i and there may be many that will track okay with the minimal anti-skate force afforded by the twisted wire method, but I have now come to believe that a mechanical A/S is a necessity to truly fine tune any cartridge on the 10.5i uni. Audiophiles attempt to adjust every parameter, VTF; VTA; Azimuth; Overhang; Viscous damping; Tangency alignment, and probably 10 more paramenters either real or imagined, but all with extreme percision and acuracy. So okay, anti-skate is a moving target (force) and changes continously across the record and from record to record but so do many of the other forces, so why would we not try to optimize the anti-skate parameter as well?