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| What angle should I set the VTA on my VPI turntable? lewm... you and a friend are carrying a sofa. On level ground, the burden is equally shared. Now you have to carry the sofa up a staircase. Who is working harder? The guy at the top end or the guy at the bottom end? Raising the pivot point shifts... | |
| What angle should I set the VTA on my VPI turntable? wlutkecleeds,Wrong. On a unipivot the balance changes and I am correct. You’re comparing VTF and VTA. Two different parameters. You’re obviously confused.VTA = Vertical Tracking Angle. Shown here.VTF= Vertical Tracking Force. That’s the weight (f... | |
| What angle should I set the VTA on my VPI turntable? wlutkeWhen VTA is changed, adjusting the tail up decreases VTF. Just the opposite: Raising the "tail" (pivot) will increase VTA.See VTA/SRA diagram here. | |
| 3 New UBER Decks - Is this Turntable's SwanSong? 🦢 sensesundertimeIf any method is the "best" method, then the penultimate implementations of that method should all approach being the same.Why would that be? Sometimes, the second-best approach uses a completely different technique. Or, perhaps, yo... | |
| Please help me not make a dumb mistake Your speaker level inputs share a ground common between left and right. Amplifiers that use differentially balanced circuits have separate grounds for left and right. I'm pretty sure the PL amplifier is a single-ended amp, so you should be fine, ... | |
| Aged components / service!? rird a pre which is between 10-15 years old. Personally i kind of feel this is close to a no go. I get conflicting information with regards to service and age ... It depends. There are components from companies such as ARC or Mac that are re... | |
| If I could afford, I’d purchase 100% Oswald Mills Audio gear lewmMegabuck turntables are only a byproduct of societal problems ...Huh? Do you think expensive turntables are designed by homeless people, or what? | |
| Demos - To Charge a Fee or to Not Charge a Fee? profYou have a really crappy audition experience at the dealer ... salesman walks over, turns down my music, and starts giving me the hard sell - "well, what’s it going to be? What is your decision? Are you walking out with these today?" No mor... | |
| Demos - To Charge a Fee or to Not Charge a Fee? profCan someone please explain on what basis my post would have been removed ...Yes. The moderators can answer your question. Reach out to them with the Contact Us link. | |
| Poor Customer Service I’ve had excellent response and support from the companies I deal with with the sole exception of Aurender. I finally became so unhappy with their quality of support that I dumped the damn thing and bought a Bryston BDP-3. Which is what I should h... | |
| why do so many discussions turn contentious? As we know, this thread is: "why do so many discussions turn contentious?"Here’s an entire post from our friend @georgehifi:georgehifiNo no no!! that’s the new word for being a fuser "Pathetic"😵There’s the problem. | |
| If I could afford, I’d purchase 100% Oswald Mills Audio gear gochurchgoI wouldn’t buy anything from any company who prices 98% of the world out of their “goods”. I’d sooner burn that place down than walk in the door.Why so angry, @gochurchgo? | |
| Cables that measure the same but (seem?) to sound different unreceivedogmaIn pharmaceutical clinical trials, the placebo effect is A Thing, people get better because they think they are not in the control group ...Not exactly. Placebos won’t cure cancer.Those that prattle most consistently about placebo af... | |
| Demos - To Charge a Fee or to Not Charge a Fee? bslon... My dealer has given me some screaming good deals over the past 20 plus years, along with great customer service. I stop in occasionally as a tire kicker to see and hear what’s what and he’s happy to accommodate—he knows I’m not an i... | |
| Audiophile Priorities and Recent Topics Just to be clear: I have been at this audio thing a long, long time, going all the way back to r.a.h-e days, and long before. But it did strike me odd that anyone could pursue audio for 40 years and only now be happy with the sound. My system has ... |