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| Best Budget Phono Cartridge? Thanks to the moderators for deleting the hateful post above. It's difficult to believe that matters such as VTA could invoke such nastiness. To clarify, there is no such thing as a "negative VTA." Claiming that there is reflects an ignorance of t... | |
| Best Budget Phono Cartridge? cheeg 01-11-2018 2:36am... the Pfanstiehl 4822-DEE-P is a decent replacement stylus, at only $29 -- that's a no-brainer! At worst, I can use it as a backup set of "rock skis", for my rutted records that would otherwise tear up good needles. ... | |
| Best Budget Phono Cartridge? viridian... if you are looking for negative VTA, raising the front of the arm up ...There's no such thing as "negative VTA." You're confusing VTA with the relative angle of the pickup arm - those are two different things. Proper VTA is typically... | |
| Why are the vocals on some records hidden behind the music on my system? scooby2do 0cleeds- read the article above provided by willewonka from soundsmith. It states that they think you should start with the tone arm is to be placed parallel to the record surface. Is that not 90 degrees? ... I have no problem atte... | |
| Why are the vocals on some records hidden behind the music on my system? scooby2do well once again I fixated on the wrong point for setting vta. While trying to find 90 degrees using the tone arm (which showed no improvement) I figured out that it is the head shell that is to be used as the reference point! You seem t... | |
| Why are the vocals on some records hidden behind the music on my system? scooby2do... the alignment itself didn't take 2 1/2 hrs but making adjustments to the vta is a change an listen to see if it is better or worse then doing that over an over until you find what you feel is the best ...It sounds like you're rely... | |
| Vinyl from Barnes & Noble schubertNo, in USA a corporation is a person and actually has more rights than youNonsense. | |
| Why are the vocals on some records hidden behind the music on my system? scooby2do I just finished a 2 1/2 hr re-alingment of the cart. Unless you are working with a microscope, an alignment should not take two hours or more. How did you perform the alignment? Did you align the cartridge, or did you align the stylus/ca... | |
| New Tweak --- Its Fantastic Now that the name-calling and veiled insults on this thread have been halted by the moderators, I’ll weigh in on this tweak.First, the notion that the absence of a money-back guarantee on this product should arouse suspicion is just a red herring.... | |
| Why are the vocals on some records hidden behind the music on my system? scooby2dothe Pro-ject does use a mirror as part of the alignment processBut that's for azimuth, correct? Something like a WallyTractor uses a mirror to set tangency and actually aligns the cantilever itself. I could be mistaken about the Pro-jec... | |
| Why are the vocals on some records hidden behind the music on my system? scooby2do The cart. is new with only 100-150 hours on it and I used a Pro-ject cart. alignment toolI suspect the alignment is off, and suggest you use a gauge which aligns the actual stylus and cantilever using a mirror, such as the WallyTractor. | |
| Dedicated Phono Cables required?? roberjermanWhether a phono cable costs $10 or $1000 they ALL sound alike!Actually, they don't all sound alike. Many don't measure the same, either, so that should be no surprise. And depending on the system, shielding can be critical in a phono ... | |
| Balanced Preamp recommendations up to $5,500 asp307 @nkonor , the Pass XP-15 and 17 have balanced outs, just not ins..That's not quite correct. What defines a balanced circuit isn't really the connector - it's the circuit. A phono cartridge is inherently balanced; that is, it has a separat... | |
| lush cartridge under $1500 used(?) You're considering buying a used cartridge?? That's a risky proposition unless you plan to have it immediately retipped, which is another risky proposition. | |
| Balanced Preamp recommendations up to $5,500 perazzi280Unless you are heavily invested in balanced interconnects and components with balanced input connectors, I am baffled by your criteria that limits the preamplifier to balanced inputs and outputs. The OP makes perfect sense to me. It ... |