arnold_layne
Responses from arnold_layne
| Does This Machine Exist? The Sony HAP-S1 or the Sony HAP1ZES. Both are hard drive systems that store your music internally once transferred from a PC. You will have to "rip" your cd's to a computer first. The issue will be SACD's. Both units can play 2 channel DSD, but on... | |
| Nakamichi 505 or the Dragon ? I cannot comment on the RX505 as I've never used one. I'm sure it's a great deck, but it's limited in features for best possible recording and playback. I've had zero issues with people playing back tapes I've recorded on my Dragon. I've had many ... | |
| Offset Angle on VPI Classic Tonearm I have a classic 2 and had a classic 1 briefly. I use a Soundsmith VPI Zephyr. On both arms, the cartridge had to be rotated alight towards the center of the platter for proper alignment. The cartridge also sits pretty far back in the headshell too. | |
| Setting Azimuth I did a few needledrops with my new cartridge. The channel imbalance is pretty obvious. Here is a screen shot of Sultans of Swing digital, then normalized evenly for both channels.http://www.sendspace.com/file/asgj0r | |
| Setting Azimuth Lanetim,That is a path I'm considering going down. Wasn't sure if the arm was upgradable. Now that I know, I may do that. I know they are busy moving to a new warehouse, so I'll ask them about it next week. | |
| Setting Azimuth I've eliminated the phono stage during my first test. I had the fozgometer connected to the interconnects directly off the turntable. I even switched to a completely different pair of interconnects and the results were the same. I have not done th... | |
| Setting Azimuth Ok, I get that azimuth has to do with proper phase; the needle sits between the walls of the groove equally. How does one adjust channel balance? I would think if the right channel is louder than the left by a few decibels, this results in the the... | |
| Setting Azimuth What I'm going to do is let the cartridge break in. Then I'll attempt to fine tune the azimuth again. I've ordered the SS Counter-Intuitive as I've wanted one anyways. I agree it should make minute and repeatable adjustments possible. This arm als... | |
| Setting Azimuth I'm about to give up. Just checking out side two of my Hi Fi News test LP, and it's OFF CENTER. How the heck am I supposed check critical and minute adjustments of the turntable with an off center pressing? I hope Music Direct will exchange it for... | |
| Setting Azimuth Philb7777;Ran the calibration. Left channel with calibration test disc is reading a bit lower than the right. I can reach 20db with the right channel, but the left reads slightly lower. I'm beginning to doubt the accuracy of the fozgometer.A_L | |
| Setting Azimuth Dopogue,I've not experienced any issues with the cart clearing the outer ring clamp. I'm running at 2.0grams with the arm level. I've checked cartridge alignment against my Mint LP alignment template, and I'm tracing the arc properly and the cart ... | |
| Setting Azimuth When I measure each channel separately with the fozgometer using tracks 4 & 5 of the hi-fi news test lp the right channel reads a stronger signal than the left channel. | |
| VPI Service - I'm impressed I've had similar experience. Needed an updated version of the tonearm rest for my Scoutmaster so my tone arm would be able to lift up out of the rest instead of moving it towards the platter first so I could use the outer ring clamp device. I aske... | |
| VPI Customer Service I'd like to add my kudos to VPI for their great customer service. I have an older Scoutmaster with the old style arm clamp. It kept me from being able to use the outer ring clamp due to the tonearm not clearing the tone arm clamp before contacting... | |
| Strange low frequency noise when playing vinyl. Sarcher30: It's not the motor. The sound is there even with the motor off and the belt removed. I can spin the platter by hand with the needle in a locked groove and recreate the noise. It's definitely coming from the bearing or the tonearm.I will... |