dougdeacon
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| VTF setting, before or After setting anti-skate? Crubio,So you're asking... HOW to measure VTF? WHEN to measure VTF?or...?Please re-post a question the Intelligencii can understand. ;-) | |
| VTF setting, before or After setting anti-skate? Additionally, in response to your title question, set VTF first, with A/S set at zero. Then proceed as above. | |
| VTF setting, before or After setting anti-skate? Devices like the Wally Skater can measure the amount of antiskating a tonearm's A/S device applies at any given point across the tonearm's arc of travel. However, any such static measurement taken when the stylus is not tracking a moving groove wi... | |
| What is the effective length of Basis Vector 4? Good advice from the above. @ Tora, you asked about effective length but then added (in parentheses) the pivot-to-spindle dimension, as though they were the same thing. They're not. Make sure you know which is which... just sayin'. :-) | |
| Record cleaning fluids Syntax, you're lucky. I wish I had 3X LADS to help clean my records! | |
| record cleaning question Chayro,Good questions. They can be answered, provided one has the time, patience and interest in doing a lot of work. As Edison said, the genius (in product testing and development) is 99% perspiration, 1% inspiration. Exactly right.Being a nut ca... | |
| Spin Clean seems to add noise to records? One additional thought. With any cleaning method, I've found that some clicks and pops are removable only with an enzyme cleaning solution. Of the 3 brands I've tried, AIVS Enzymatic gives me the best results. | |
| Spin Clean seems to add noise to records? I second Actusreus's seconding! ;-)The OP's experience of music that's more alive, with more jump, with more low level detail BUT with a slightly noisier record surface is what I hear on many cleaned records. Vinyl surfaces often contain microscop... | |
| record cleaning question I've used both. To my ears, the AIVS fluids and pure water rinse produced cleaner LP grooves. For my listening preferences and with my cleaning protocols, AIVS are my RCM fluids of choice. | |
| Graham Phantom Anti-Skate. Is it effective at all? John,You quoted Stringreen's contention about why tonearms include A/S but also addressed your rebuttal to me, as though I had seconded that statement. I didn't and I don't. Please don't ask me to defend statements I haven't made.I'm unaware that ... | |
| Graham Phantom Anti-Skate. Is it effective at all? The constant outward deflection of the arm... exerts a force that inhibits the stylus and produces a side damping. One wants the stylus to be absolutely free to negotiate its travels.Bingo! That's what I hear. It sounds exactly like using too much... | |
| Graham Phantom Anti-Skate. Is it effective at all? Good caution by Lew. There's no question that skating forces exist. I don't deny physics and I doubt Don does either. I suggested caution in my last sentence but Lew described the correct procedure.Well, actually, one can ignore it, but listen car... | |
| Dumb VTA Question What type of sound you want will depend on your preferences and to some extent on the types of music you listen to. In terms of what is possible, you have a very capable setup. Every adjustment (and our TriPlanars have many!) makes its own unique ... | |
| Skeptics believe:cartridge makes a HUGE difference Agree with Atmasphere, for similar reasons. I've compared my $150 MM with LOMCs priced from $500 to $10,000 (also on a TriPlanar, on a $6K TT and playing through an $8K Doshi Alaap phono stage). In this setup, the MM at least matches the performan... | |
| Big cartridge screws? Agree these are useful to add some mass at the headshell. Once I have a cart properly aligned and dialed in, the range of VTF tweaking it needs (and I tweak VTF almost daily) is not enough to make realignment necessary. My VTF tweaks are rarely mo... |