dougdeacon
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| Cleaning new/sealed records? Yes.In addition to dust, many LPs have residues from the pressing process left in the grooves. Playing LPs before cleaning them risks (a) not hearing all the music and (b) premature vinyl or stylus wear that could have been avoided. | |
| Set Overhang on arm w/adjustable tracking angle Peter,Good thought. If one is lucky enough to have a cartridge whose stylus falls directly beneath the axis of rotation of the tonearm's mounting plate, rotating the cartridge would not affect overhang/eff. length. Unfortunately (as I'm sure you k... | |
| Set Overhang on arm w/adjustable tracking angle Garibaldi,You may not have set up many cartridges but you came to a good place. There are many experienced vinyl-philes here. I've set up several arms with single-point mounting schemes like your Satisfy. It's actually easier than a two-slot heads... | |
| VPI Classic III force gauge Yes, all metals exhibit some degree of magnetic behavior. For that matter, all gases induce some degree of Brownian motion. To build a practical VTF scale it's sufficient to eliminate most magnetic behavior, so avoid ferritic steels. To use a VTF ... | |
| VPI Classic III force gauge Hogwash. If austenitic stainless steel was used, the manufacturing process would not "magnetize" it. Only two "processes" could result in magnetically reactive SS:1) incompetent material specifications from VPI; or2) competent material specificati... | |
| Does anyone use a RUMBLE filter? Snap! Snap! Snap! Be cool boys. | |
| Does anyone use a RUMBLE filter? Onhwy61, I was with you 100% until this:BTW, one of the first things taught to audio engineers is bandwidth filtering. When recording an instrument you want to get rid sound below and above the frequency range of the instrument. It's considered a ... | |
| VPI Classic III force gauge IME, some electronic and Shure gauges do react with magnets. Others don't. Brf's explanation seems the most likely. With any new scale, it's prudent to test with a refrigerator magnet before using it to set up a phono cartridge. Aside from the ris... | |
| Shelter 501Mk2 or ZYX R100-02H Cartridges of 22-30cu compliance tend to perform best on fairly low mass tonearms. That is not the case with a ZYX. On a low mass arm (say < 10g eff. mass) a ZYX tends to sound lifeless and bass shy. Instead of the arm stabilizing the cartridge... | |
| Anti static guns Gruv Glide your records and you wont have any static...Nor any music. ;-)@Lowrider, Gruv Glide is not a cleaning product, it's a lubricant. Properly applied it does indeed go down into the grooves. By design it leaves a thin, residual film on the ... | |
| Shelter 501Mk2 or ZYX R100-02H Sirlordcomic,I don't know where you got that information but it doesn't match ZYX's specs or my experience. I've used over a dozen ZYX models in the last ten years (Bloom, R100, Airy 2, Airy 3, 4D, UNIverse, Omega, UNIverse2... in all three coil m... | |
| Second Cartridge With Transfiguration Phoenix Raul, higher investments don't seem to be a problem for Number95! ;-) | |
| Test LP's Worth it? Mark 1 Eyeball and a index card is a less expensive alternative For azimuth, instead of using a metal rod like VPI provides, I use a 6inch length of raw spaghetti.Now those are my kind of setup tools! | |
| Second Cartridge With Transfiguration Phoenix Number95, glad you've formulated a plan, which seems sensible and should teach you a lot about whichever cartridges you try. One caution: Raul's first post correctly mentioned that the Graham might not be the optimal tonearm for lower compliance c... | |
| Anti static guns ... put your finger on the needle as your pulling and releasing slowly. You'll know if it works! Zavato, if it's all the same, I'll use YOUR finger. Kenyonbum's method works for me too. Jwm, may we all ship our records to you for treatment? ;-) |