dougdeacon
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| Tinny sound accompanying cello on recordings ? I'm sorry you're having to suffer that. Is it the case that certain frequencies or sonic mixtures, like a cello, provoke or exacerbate the problem? | |
| Goat Hair Brush Try using the goat's hair brush to spread enzyme cleaning solutions around a few old records. The enzymes will dissolve those hairs in short order - problem solved! | |
| Adjusting SRA using macro lens vs microscope Glai, Piano's excellent. It's percussive, which gives you a well defined leading edge, but it also has a complex harmonic trail. Choose something dynamic (Beethoven) rather than a soft legato (Debussy). Listen for the relative timing between hamme... | |
| Adjusting SRA using macro lens vs microscope One thing is for sure the setup parameters for vinyl playback are a web sites best friend for posting. LOL. They should charge us by the word. ;-)Raul,Skating forces do indeed exist. I said so myself. But we are not logically compelled to compensa... | |
| Adjusting SRA using macro lens vs microscope Wntrmute2,It's not clear who you were referring to when you said people "dismiss" anti-skating, but as one who currently plays without it I thought I'd address your question.Playing with zero A/S does not necessarily constitute dismissing it. That... | |
| Adjusting SRA using macro lens vs microscope Glai,You'll certainly see/learn something with the microscope. It should help you find a "close approximate starting point". Don_c55's statement that 80% of all LP's were cut at precisely 92 degrees is not consistent with my experience, but my col... | |
| Adjusting SRA using macro lens vs microscope Lew, I don't have experience with enough MM's/MI's on rigs with adjustable arm height to generalize. I own one decent MM and tried a friend's MI for a spell, but that's about it. Your speculation that stiffening of the suspension may explain why s... | |
| best cartridge under $500 What phono stage will you be using? Without knowing that a cartridge recommendation is worthless, especially an MC recommendation, since MC's often have specific requirements for phono stage gain and impedance.That said, unless you're prepared to ... | |
| Adjusting SRA using macro lens vs microscope Agree with Dan. The system had few commonalities with ours, so whatever anomalies Paul and I noticed might have been attributable to many things. FWIW, the A90 is one of a very few cartridges I've used that has as narrow a range for VTF, SRA and a... | |
| Adjusting SRA using macro lens vs microscope Here we go again. You'd think people who advocate pre-setting SRA to some arbitrary number would explain why we should bother. Before asking HOW to do something, ask WHY to do it. What is the goal? Does a recommended method meet that goal? In this... | |
| XV-1S and Antiskate Lew, With some (many?) cartridges you may never get away with zero A/S. IME it's quite cartridge-specific. We've heard variations between multiple samples of the same model. Paul believes this is due to sample variability in the behavior of elasto... | |
| XV-1S and Antiskate Musichead,I heard an XV-1S cantilever snap from across the room once. The owner was aligning the cart and had one brief moment of inattention. Be careful, it can be done without really trying.Agree with Lewm and Syntax that the decision of how muc... | |
| XV-1S and Antiskate On a grooveless record the POINT of the stylus rides on a flat, unmodulated surface. The contact surfaces don't touch anything.When you listen to music the SIDES of the stylus ride on a pair of opposed, modulated walls. The point never touches any... | |
| Ortofon A90 or Air Tight PC-1 I don't see why one couldn't spend some time with a digital microscope and record the corresponding VTA settings for a 160gm pressing versus a 220gm (or the values in between, perhaps).One could, but (as I posted just above) the SRA for one 160gm... | |
| Ortofon A90 or Air Tight PC-1 I haven't heard the A90 yet, but Dertonarm hit the nail on the head. The thing that matters is matching playback stylus SRA to groove SRA, and a microscope can't help with that.Groove SRA is different for virtually every LP you own, and you can't ... |