dougdeacon
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| What LPs do you use for VTA adjustment Hi Samir,You're correct that arm height and VTF are interrelated. If you have a sufficiently accurate scale you can easily measure changes in VTF as you raise or lower your arm.I'd suggest letting that nice new arm settle in a bit before fretting ... | |
| origin live silver or??? Par3n1, Yes, the Expressimo C/W will fit a Silver. Twl's assessment seems right to me. I believe I'd have to spend at least $2K to significantly better my fully modded one. Here's a link to that thread you remembered. It's a worthwhile read. What ... | |
| How often do you demagnitize your MC cartridge? Scubabiker,The idea is to unplug your phono cable and (assuming RCA's) hold them together with the pin of each touching the ground of the other. Play a 60 sec frequency sweep or tone while holding them together.I've never tried this myself. A sear... | |
| Best way to upgrade from a MMF9 Bombaywalla, Thank you for posting your Nott'/SDS/VPI experiences. I got slammed on VA for expressing this view, despite the widespread evidence. Good to know someone has heard it firsthand. | |
| How often do you demagnitize your MC cartridge? 4yanx, I can't really say whether that part of their claims has any merit. You know my stylus cleaning regimen as you said, and it's the most effective one I've tried. I didn't drag out my microscope, but there was no visible change under the 10x ... | |
| LIRPA1 I had something similar once. After filming 'The Wizard of Oz' the studio sold off the costumes and effects, as was usual for Hollywood. I wanted the ruby slippers but the price was too high, so I settled for the house-spinning machine instead. Th... | |
| How often do you demagnitize your MC cartridge? We haven't had a good shouting match in a while so I thought I'd resurrect this thread, which I followed when it was new but never contributed to due to zero experience at the time. That has changed.Our sonics had become surprisingly less involvin... | |
| Best way to upgrade from a MMF9 I'd also consider a Nottingham Spacedeck/Spacearm ($2500) + a suitable cartridge. I haven't heard one myself, nor a VPI for that matter, but my money would be on the Nott'. Many Scout/ScoutMaster owners have ended up adding expensive motor control... | |
| Best way to upgrade from a MMF9 And upgrading will certainly improve your neighbor's pleasure too!Having gone from a similar level to about a $6K rig I agree with Twl. | |
| Effective Mass The only thing I could find with a web search was a dealer spec for the current Moonbeam/VLMT. They recommended a cartridge weight of 4-10.5 grams, which implies that the VLMT has low-medium effective mass. That would be typical for a mid-market a... | |
| Effective Mass Why not ask Sota?http://www.sotaturntables.com | |
| It Also Doubles As An Apple Peeler. Twl expressed all my thoughts perfectly. The relatively large change in angle of the short arm when tracking a warp would challenge many cartridges. Too many bearings and parts to resonate. Too many connections in the signal path.I have his HIFI M... | |
| Alignment and resolution problem. Keith, if you have a 35mm camera with removable lenses, try taking a 50mm or shorter lens off the camera body and looking through that (backwards). It works really well. | |
| How Can I figure out my Effective Tone Arm Mass?? Mount a cartridge and play the resonance test tracks on the HFN test record. This will give you the horizontal and vertical resonance frequencies of that particular cartridge/arm combination. If you know the mass and compliance of the cartridge, y... | |
| Alignment and resolution problem. Keith,My TTB seems to be fine, but it took me a lot of tries to learn how to use it to best effect. For the longest time I was looking down on the cantilever at about a 45 degree angle. I was lining up the reflected cantilever with the real one th... |