dan_ed
Responses from dan_ed
| No deep bass or highs: VTF or VTA issue? After playing Aja again, it's been a while, I can understand why you may think it sounds dark. That album sounds like that to me all the way through. But I can confirm what Dre posted about the cymbals in the beginning of Deacon Blues. Plenty of d... | |
| No deep bass or highs: VTF or VTA issue? Here is a link to a white paper that another A'goner referenced several days ago. I think the concepts presented in this paper will help explain why your theory of what large changes show is full of holes. So don't despair yet.Vacuum State GuruSet... | |
| No deep bass or highs: VTF or VTA issue? Madfloyd, if I understand your original post, this bass issue started when you added the capability to your system to reproduce frequencies from about 60Hz on down. I'm assuming that when you say you have "dialed in" the sub using your music serve... | |
| Testing speakers in room Don't forget, you are really measuring room response to your speakers. The published specs for speakers are done under anechoic conditions. I'll second Acousta6's recommendation for RoomEQ Wizard. It takes a little while to figure out how to use i... | |
| No deep bass or highs: VTF or VTA issue? If your XV-1s is fairly new, I would suggest running it around 2.1 grams or so for the first 100 hours or so, and keep the arm level. Mine is a few years old now. I usually run it between 1.87 and 1.93. My arm is just slightly tail up. Nick Doshi ... | |
| I got a stylus cleaning kit for, but--------- Woah up, there! For the sake of domestic tranquility let's give Doug the well deserved credit for having the smarts to not let Paul get away! So let's induct Paul and give Doug an asterisk. :-) | |
| Antiskating .... The last analog secret Thanks for setting me straight on the vector analysis, Jonathan. So we do always have a skating force magnitude with angled tonearms. But that magnitude can vary with the magnitude of the force of the drag on the stylus and thus the needed AS comp... | |
| Antiskating .... The last analog secret I'm not trying to talk you out of investigating, tweaking, experimenting. Our respective cartridges are different in several ways. I believe you have a great plan going forward. And I neglected to thank you for sharing what you have found regardin... | |
| Antiskating .... The last analog secret That guru white paper doesn't really tell me anything that we haven't been doing, figured out, or already know. There is an assumption, based on rather old technologies, in that paper that any cart/arm combo must have AS compensation. We have much... | |
| I got a stylus cleaning kit for, but--------- I'll second Rushton's method. | |
| Antiskating .... The last analog secret Actually, I decided to go a bit farther. Hope I don't end up needing AS. It can still be done, but it will take a few minutes longer. ;-) | |
| Allaerts down-repair or ?? Did I read this correctly? The cartridge is just over a year old and now needs to be rebuilt, an operation that will take 1 to 2 years? | |
| Antiskating .... The last analog secret Hey Stltrains and Doug,I haven't tried any real torture tracks but so far I'm having very good results running with no AS weight at all with my heavier XV-1s. But I'm wondering why not just loosen the screw holding the end of that line on the AS r... | |
| Antiskating .... The last analog secret Kirkus, I have a couple of test records that I have no use for. If you'd like them, although it sounds like you already have them, I'd probably take $10 plus shipping.I have never analyzed this with free body diagrams or whatever, but I'm pretty s... | |
| Antiskating .... The last analog secret Very good description Nsgarch! My thinking has been along the same lines regarding VTF and AS. If we get beyond the obvious need to have enough force to keep mistracking from occurring, then it has to be the interaction of the generator parts that... |