dougdeacon
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| Setting Antiskate - visually Why do people obsess about adjusting an AUDIO playback system by VISUAL means? Would you fine tune a telescope or expensive camera by listening to it?Except for roughing in a setting, which takes all of 30 seconds, I make every adjustment on my ri... | |
| What I learned on Audiogon This Year I learned that it it's best to buy tickets to the symphony, and go. So I did and I will. | |
| Koetsu Blue Lace Onyx vs. Coralstone Stringreen and Syntax raise a cautionary point. Candy and alchohol both metabolize into sugar.Overindulgence may lead to confused mental states, witness Dr. Lewm's patient obsessing over silly colors, or obesity.Withdrawal management programs are ... | |
| Triplanar is compatible with a Peripheral Clamp Mounting any tonearm at a non-designed distance from the spindle necessarily alters the alignment geometry. It will be impossible for the stylus to track the arc across the platter that was intended by the tonearm's designer. If an arm must be mou... | |
| What Do You Hear When You Adjust VTA? Drrsutliff, I think you meant this thread?Instructions for including links and other things in a post are at the bottom of this page. Click on "markup tags".Glad to hear some of my endless babblings helped. ;)Doug\ | |
| Triplanar is compatible with a Peripheral Clamp You are indeed a brave man! In addition to your sensible question to Tri Mai about the construction of the cap, I'd have been wondered about potential damage or dis-adjustment of the bearings from the pressures of filing, especially with the Riffl... | |
| Cueing/Rega RP1w/Bias 2 cartridge Your dealer provided half the story. Some arms disengage A/S until the stylus touches down, but on Rega's A/S is always engaged (at whatever level the slider's at). Since the arm is always being pulled outward it has a tendency to drift until touc... | |
| Belt for TW Raven Hi Jeff.As you stated, the motor capstan on a Raven is not designed for the 1/2" mylar used by Galibier/Redpoint/Teres tables, so you had to use 1/4" or 3/8".Reducing the contact patch by 25% or 50% is a serious disadvantage. In this application a... | |
| Is it ok to use Zero dust on A-90 ? Neither of those choices will keep a stylus clean, yet cleanliness is critical to getting the full sonic benefit from advanced stylus profiles like the A90's. There's more to stylus maintenance than removing loose fluff. Groove friction temperatur... | |
| How necessary is a zerostat gun? I use mine more or less; more when it's needed, less when it's not.Such light-heartedness may seem a fearful risk, but I'm willing to play dice with that particular universe. | |
| light source for tt setup That depends on what you call clean! ;-) | |
| light source for tt setup I use a small (one AA battery) LED flashlight, which lies on the platter pointing any direction I choose. Costs virtually nothing, available virtually everywhere. A headlamp wouldn't work for me, since I often want the light shining through the st... | |
| do record cleaning fluids soften the treble? Surfactants reduce surface tension, which helps a solution spread out into a thinner layer and wet smaller surface irregularities. This makes the solution more resistant to being vacuumed off and in fact vacuuming is insufficient. Rinsing AND vacu... | |
| Please simplify Disc Doctor Cleaner w/ VPI 16.5 The part of this I may not have right is step 2. I wasn't sure if I should spread the Miracle Cleaner on the VPI while the platter is turning, or just on a flat surface.What difference? Always try to think from the point of view of the groove. Ima... | |
| To clean zerodust Better yet, sell it on ebay and use a cheaper stylus cleaner that actually cleans. May I humbly suggest the Magic Eraser and a stylus brush? $2 will buy you several lifetimes' worth and your stylus will stay as clean as the day it was made. The Ze... |