dougdeacon
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| Installing cartr.:slide it all the way to front? Mario,That's the spirit! I first did this just like you're planning to do, by trial and error. I tried to set up my OL Silver/Shelter 901 at the OL-specified 223mm using a TTB protractor. No dice. The stylus couldn't be aligned at both points. I s... | |
| Anyone know/heard anything about the ZYX Bloom It's a new, entry level model. List = $740Mehran sells for $490http://cls.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?anlgtnrm&1141408139I haven't heard one but I did tell him that "bloom" was an odd name, especially for a cartridge from a line that is justly... | |
| Installing cartr.:slide it all the way to front? Mario_b asked:Why cant one set the cartridge overhang using linear measurements as per the arms manufacturer for the designed tracking arc: Then use compassed circles for Baerwald, Stevenson or whomever one divines to have the null points ones ... | |
| Installing cartr.:slide it all the way to front? Overhang,I already did, though I'm not surprised you missed it amidst all this other chatter!Check out this post:http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?eanlg&1137938333&openfrom&18&4#18 | |
| Installing cartr.:slide it all the way to front? After several months finally you achieve to convincing that the step-up transformer is not the best way to go, better say: is not the way to go, for amplified the signal on a phono cartridge. Welcome aboard!!!!!!!!!!!Raul, play fair! I never said ... | |
| Installing cartr.:slide it all the way to front? Plinko,Glad that was helpful. Trying to measure/adjust the pivot point when you can't even see it is too tough for me!Mario b,IME Baerwald alignment cannot be attained with a Shelter cartridge on a Rega mounted at the standard 222mm. The stylus wi... | |
| Installing cartr.:slide it all the way to front? Overhang,AHA! Progress.It appears your Gyro was used with some arm that needed a shorter mounting distance than a Rega. Fortunately, the Gyro's armboad is adjustable. I don't know the details but there are one or more screws you loosen, after whic... | |
| Funny vinyl story How about a Twilight Zone remake?My wife lied so I went to jail. Then all my records fell over and destroyed my wife! | |
| Installing cartr.:slide it all the way to front? Raul,I must have been sleepy. Of course an SME IV/V changes mounting distance when moved on its rack. In plain 2-D geometry the SME rack is a straight line segment. The TT spindle is a point. Any object moving along a straight line MUST change its... | |
| Installing cartr.:slide it all the way to front? Welcome back Overhang,First of all, nice new rig! It should play some great music.If you view the tonearm from directly above and swing the arm back and forth, you can visually imagine the exact point around which it swings. That is the pivot poin... | |
| Installing cartr.:slide it all the way to front? Raul, I'm almost certain my friend's SME V slides toward/away from the spindle, but it wouldn't be the first time I was wrong. I'll have to check/ask him.P.S. If you haven't checked my system in a while, take a look. Bad news: still plenty of "equ... | |
| Installing cartr.:slide it all the way to front? Robdoorack is correct. Like him I've mounted cartridges on several Rega type arms, some using the Rega (single point) alignment and some using Baerwald (two point) alignment. Baerwald results in lower overall tracing distortion, but it cannot be u... | |
| Installing cartr.:slide it all the way to front? But if the cartridge can't be moved inside the shell, or it's a SPU type of cartridge, how can one get both the pivot-to-spindle distance and overhang right?You can't. Any parameter you cannot adjust forces you to rely on the accuracy of the manuf... | |
| To Aesthetix users PatrickArmory,Congratulations. I thought I wrote exhausting posts but yours beats mine by a nose!I don't have an Aesthetix but I do have an EP15A (love it). I too have a hard time imagining it damaging anything, but then again I had a hard time im... | |
| Installing cartr.:slide it all the way to front? If you position a cartridge arbitrarily you will increase tracing distortion and promote uneven vinyl and stylus wear.The goal is to have your stylus retrace the path of the cutting stylus across the record while maintaining stylus and cantilever ... |