dougdeacon
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| Graham tonearm tweaking Sonically,once I got over being on HOLY ground,similar to the sound I had heard that month,while viewing the HAGLER/Sugar Ray Leonard fight at an area disco.ROTFLMAO. That's quite a sound stage. So HP's system had plenty of punch?I think he feels ... | |
| To Loricraft users If a record is obviously grungy I do a first cleaning pass with RRL Deep Cleaner and a Last brush. That removes the worst of the junk before I use the good DD brushes.It's not hard to rinse a Last brush and even vacuum it with the Loricraft nozzle... | |
| Graham tonearm tweaking Sirspeedy,I've been mugged once and burglarized once, but I doubt either scenario is likely while I'm carrying the holy cartridge into Yoda's cave! If I feel like spending a day in NYC it would be easy enough to swing by, mount it up and have a li... | |
| Graham tonearm tweaking ...in order for the Wheaton to fit my arm's mounting area,and to fascilitate the "DOWNWARD" pitch of my arm,with respect to my Transfiguration Temper V's excessive vta "backslope" I needed a spacer between the cartridge and the headshell.You could... | |
| Graham tonearm tweaking Sirspeedy,I certainly wasn't trying to argue, but I wasn't offering an opinion either. Unlike many things in audio, thread pitch is easily measured. 0.7mm per turn is more resolving than 1.0mm per turn. Opinion really doesn't enter into it. (Now I... | |
| Best tonearm position for VTA? Good responses from all the above. As Twl suggested, VTA (and SRA) is not a tonearm adjustment. It is an adjustment to the relationship between vinyl, stylus and cantilever that on most rigs happens to be effected by raising or lowering the tonear... | |
| Graham tonearm tweaking I recently went to two high line audio homes in NYC.One a rich hobbyist with too much money.Never keeping anything long enough to learn how to set it up properly.300,000.00 worth of,literally, the worst sound I've ever heard.I've met one of that t... | |
| proper loading on cartridge I'dliketostarttypinglikethisbutmythumbkeepshittingthespacebar! | |
| proper loading on cartridge Bfuehrer,Raul's formula is correct for resistors in series. The formula I gave is correct for resistors in parallel. It all depends on your setup, which we know nothing about. So don't forget either formula. Remember them both and use whichever on... | |
| How Long do LP's last Agreed. I have 45-50 year old LP's that play fine. Not all of them by any means, but all the ones that were properly cared for.Proper care means a RCM. Don't upgrade your turntable or tonearm before buying one. Don't upgrade your cartridge first e... | |
| proper loading on cartridge First, are you running directly into a gain stage or into a stepup? An MC feeding a tranny will want to see a much lower impedance than if it's directly feeding a gain stage. In addition, a tranny steps the resistance of the circuit down by the sq... | |
| Graham tonearm tweaking First, many thanks to sirspeedy for the typing upgrade. 15 paragraphs in two posts, wow! Seriously, your always valuable content is much easier to read. Go ahead, blush!Remote control VTA, wouldn't that be nifty? It really doesn't take much time o... | |
| Graham tonearm tweaking I don't doubt sirspeedy's statement, based on much longer damping experiments than mine, that these adjustments interact to some degree. Certainly VTF and VTA do. To "perfectly" adjust one parameter you need to have the other two optimized as well... | |
| Graham tonearm tweaking George_a, If you changed the fluid level on a Graham 2.2 for every record you could only spin 1 or 2 records a day. It is a potentially messy process that must be done with considerable patience and care. If you only have one pair of hands it may ... | |
| Electrical problems? Alanpiga,I don't know if it's relevant to your noise, but how did you ground the Teres motor pod at the motor end? Grounding the case does not ground the motor. There was a discussion of this recently on the Teres discussion forum. Chris Brady chi... |