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| Stylus Rake Angle John goron. I don't see why you should feel insulted. But I certainly have been. To suggest that those participating in this thread don't understand the terms borders on an insult to them as well. We all understand the terminology and what's clear... | |
| Stylus Rake Angle John, have you read this article in it's entirety yourself? It corroborates every single point I've made without fail! I'm now wondering what your motive is in participating in this discussion. | |
| Stylus Rake Angle It's not clear that he understands the mechanical process of the cutting lathe. That could very well be a fault of mine. But what John doesn't seem to understand is that stylus/cantilever angle is not a fixed standard and cannot be used as a set u... | |
| Stylus Rake Angle But doesn't VTA become a moot point when matching SRA to whatever it is, by ear? VTA is static and fixed whether it's accurate or not. The angle of the stylus relative to the cantilever is not a fixed standard. I don't understand why you keep refe... | |
| Stylus Rake Angle John, semantics aside, if you are correct, then why are we discussing SRA? If the cartridge manufacturers want to refer to SRA as VTA and vice-versa, so what? All they are doing is referencing a record manufacturing standard. There is no way VTA r... | |
| Stylus Rake Angle You are mistaken. VTA has nothing to do with the angle of the cantilever. The angle of the stylus relative to the cantilever can vary wildly from one cart to another and therefore result in huge differences in cantilever/surface angles. VTA is set... | |
| Stylus Rake Angle I agree. | |
| Stylus Rake Angle There actually is a standard cutting angle. It was changed from 15 degrees in the '60's, to 20 in the '70's. I think you've reiterated the pertinent points I've already made. However my conclusion is still that the best compromise is the ability t... | |
| Stylus Rake Angle Here's an interesting and somewhat revealing take on Micheal Fremer's TT set up technique. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ7nAdITdk | |
| Stylus Rake Angle I'm still not convinced that SRA should match VTA(cutting stylus) necessarily. What shape is the cutting stylus vs. the many different playback styli? How many different cutting stylus shapes are there? | |
| Stylus Rake Angle Well, to be honest, I find that optimizing SRA yields a higher degree of improvement the closer to optimum the positions of the null points are. Not sure what the numbers are, but overhang is responsible for their correct location. | |
| Stylus Rake Angle Optimal SRA is an average based on the average 20 degree cutting angle standard, give or take. Temperature becomes moot as soon as changes in depth are introduced by modulation since that is accompanied by groove angle changes anyway. However as A... | |
| Stylus Rake Angle You answered your own question. | |
| Please help me which music is that? NO no. Get yourself on youtube and you hum it personally. | |
| Stylus Rake Angle Raul, My intention was not to present my point of view as fact, but just that, my point of view in a discussion. By all means, correct me if I'm wrong. I'm speaking from my owm personal experience. I don't have instruments to measure such tiny var... |