dougdeacon
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| tonearm questions Also, call me stupid, but I always figured that anti skating worked in the opposite direction. It seemed, that if I were a stylus, riding in a groove, centrifugal force would tend to spin me towards the outer edge of the record, so I figured anti-... | |
| New Vinyl Defects The number of people complaining of poor QC on new audiophile vinyl has increased quite a bit in the past year or so. It's a constant topic on VA these days and I've heard a few of these problem LP's myself. Careful examination has proven beyond a... | |
| tonearm questions I have had problems with the stylus skating in from the lean in spiral, even though, I seem to have all my adjustments properly set up...Dave,This is normal for any properly set up arm with high quality bearings, which your IV certainly has. Four ... | |
| Tranfiguration Orpheus description In your experience, what range of azimuth changes resulted in optimization. 1/8 turn? 1/4 turn? Or less?Much less. 1/12 or 1/24 of a turn. It is important to take up the backlash in the threads of the adusting screw BEFORE loosening the two set sc... | |
| Tranfiguration Orpheus description Andrew,Cello and I each own a 25% share in a Wally Analog Shop. It works, and using it taught me two things (which Dan has already mentioned):1. extremely small adjustments matter and,2. I can set azimuth about as well by ear as by measuring (and ... | |
| Tranfiguration Orpheus description Andrew,It sounds like the Orpheus is breaking in nicely. The fact that it now sounds better at a more normal 100 ohms than at 47K is consistent with that. I've had new MC's that sounded okay at higher impedances OOTB, but needed progressively lowe... | |
| Silicone for Tri-Planer damping trough Jack43,Glad you're enjoying the new setup! I've never heard a WT, but from its design I'd expect to hear just what you described on switching to a TriPlanar. Silicone damping seems to work okay in the bearing well of some unipivots but other appli... | |
| Damaging records with a hand turned machine. Xiekitchen,Let's not forget that MD wants you to buy their brushes. I'm not saying they'd lie but they do have an incentive, FWIW.I have scratched records with a dry Hunt EDA brush. That is easy to do. Be careful with that one.I've *tried* to scra... | |
| Lube for turntable - What do you prefer? In that case he should know the answer! It depends, as I said, on the tolerances of the bearing and also on the materials inside the bearing.With that information a mechanical engineer with lubrications expertise could make a recommendation based ... | |
| Lube for turntable - What do you prefer? It depends on the table, actually on the bearing to be more precise. What works in one bearing could be a disaster in another.If your bearing was designed to use grease, then grease is what you should use. Bearings designed for grease typically ha... | |
| Does size really matter? :- Good insights from Jcarr, as usual (hi Jonathon!)To clear up one possible source of confusion regarding ZYX stylus specs, the entry level Bloom does not use a micro-ridge stylus - it's an elliptical. I presume this was done to control costs. Highe... | |
| Graham 2.2 traking force, do you use more? Bill,We haven't heard a Vector III, but we heard a Vector I easily outplay a Graham 2.2 so I presume the newer versions do too. Paul ruled out unstabilized unipivots on theory before we ever heard one. We've heard several since then and have never... | |
| Graham 2.2 traking force, do you use more? Tris,I haven't heard Cello's 2.2/UNIverse since he started exploring above-normal VTF's. IIRC he was using 2.3g (ZYX recommends a maximum of 2.2). Since then he's acquired a Schroeder Ref SQ. I believe his 2.2 may be collecting dust.Raul hit the n... | |
| anyone used the Sutherland Phd high gain card? Viiu,I doubt many people would suggest 10K ohms for an Airy 3. Optimal loading is system dependent for sure, but 10K is almost certainly too high for that cartridge, with which I have some experience. Assuming you have the LO Airy 3, I'd expect th... | |
| Graham 2.2 traking force, do you use more? A stylus does not ride on a single pivot point. |