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| What is best VTA for Clearaudio Maestro Cartridge? Dcbingaman, what is so peculiar about CA MMs and unipivot arms and azimuth? The Maestro compliance is middle of the road: I believe 15. Why would other cartridges be a better match? I understand that the VPI Classic w/ stock arm is highly regarded... | |
| stupid tube question of the day 6bq5 -- I can't speak to other tube makes or gear, but in the case of ARC, the factory recommends that power tubes in more current models, such as 6550Cs, be replaced every 2000 hours. These particluar tubes bias at 65 mV. ARC has replaced the 655... | |
| VPI Classic/Clear Audio Maestro Wood Question Stringreen, my bubble balance level is part of a 40+ year old Sumiko Dennison protractor kit. The bubble level is about an inch or inch and a half long, is made of plastic and is very light. Even still, I am very careful when lowering the tone arm... | |
| VPI Classic/Clear Audio Maestro Wood Question Stringreen, thanks for your suggestion -- it makes sense. What do you think about my careful use of placing a tiny bubble level on the tone arm head just over the cartridge, perpendicular to the tone arm wand, to measure azimuth? As I mentioned in... | |
| stupid tube question of the day Ckoffend, your comment is consistent with my thoughts too. However, I am not an electronics techie, so I have no real basis for formulating a view, ergo why I asked the question. There are a number of A'gon members who are heavily involved in tube... | |
| stupid tube question of the day Another question: Any suggestions or guidelines on turning tube gear off when taking a listening break, and then back on again when the listening session resumes, if the break only lasts a couple of hours? The point of the question is predicated o... | |
| VPI Classic/Clear Audio Maestro Wood Question Mjglo, Thanks for your comments. I agree 100% with what you said, particularly using the bubble level to adjust azimuth. Hence, I set the azimuth with the level using the tonearm lift to gently lower the arm to just touch the record a tad. I then ... | |
| What is best VTA for Clearaudio Maestro Cartridge? I'm a late poster to this thread. But I recently purchased a VPI Classic 1 turntable with the stock JMW 10.5i SE tonearm AND the CA Maestro Wood cartridge, and I thought I would share my experiences. In response to Dainapoo's 12/31/10 post, Musica... | |
| VPI Classic/Clear Audio Maestro Wood Question Follow Up Note: I rechecked my adjustments using different methodology and tools. I rechecked cartridge alignment and overhang using a recently acquired VPI jig rather than my Dennison protractor. Although both tools incorporate the Baerwald (sp?)... | |
| VPI Classic/Clear Audio Maestro Wood Question Mark, as I mentioned in the OP, I used both VPI's very thin aluminum bar that fits on top of the tone arm head to set azimuth. I checked the results by putting a bubble level on the top of the tone arm head. Azimuth should be fine. I used a VPI ba... | |
| ARC Ref 3 Main Output Impedance Question Thanks again to all for the great advice. I am writing this follow up post because I noticed something today that was quite interesting. On 4/25 I said "[a]s to sound quality, I can say with 100% certainty, my rig does NOT sound worse [because I i... | |
| Pop heard when stylus dropped into lead-in groove Chashas, as I said in my post above, my phono stage does not have a gain control. Instead, it runs full throttle output of 58db gain straight into the line stage. As I also said, "I have no idea what if anything could happen [to my PH-7 phono stag... | |
| Pop heard when stylus dropped into lead-in groove Hi Stew. glad that everything worked out. FWIW, that's why I mute my phon stage. My gear includes an ARC Ref3 line stage and an ARC PH-7 phono stage. The PH-7 does not have a gain control -- instead, it's gain output is set to full throttle. By co... | |
| VPI Classic original vs newer tonearms Stringreen: do you know what geometry approach the VPI adjustment jig is based on, i.e., Baerwald, Longren (sp?) B, Stevenson, etc? Thanks. BIF | |
| VPI Classic original vs newer tonearms Suteetat, I own the Classic 1 w/ JMW 10.5i SE arm -- no VTA tower. You mentioned that a VTA tower can be installed, effectively converting the Classic 1 into a Classic 2, I believe. The only other difference may be that the Classic 2 uses silver c... |