dougdeacon
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| Spacers for Rega P3 The mid sounds much better now. Could 2 mm have such an effect ?Apparently! Why doubt the evidence of your own ears?Technically, if you think of it from the perspective of microscopic stylus riding inside a microscopic groove, an arm change of 2mm... | |
| Spacers for Rega P3 Loosen your arm's lock nut and slide some playing cards beneath the arm base, one at a time, until you get the height you want. Then measure the thickness of the cards. (If you have a feeler gauge, use that instead of cards of course.)As for what ... | |
| subwoofer thump on player If a thump occurs on multiple LP's precisely once-per-revolution, the cause must be in the rotating parts of the table. It might be an uneven spot in the platter or matt, a worn spot on the bearing, an anomaly in the drive system or motor or anyth... | |
| Vinyl Cleaning: Device to keep label dry? I have one of those Groovmaster's shown in the post linked by Hifihvn. It does its job well. The guy who made them used to sell direct on ebay but he doesn't seem to be listing them now. If you can't find one for sale, Google "groovmaster" and sev... | |
| Vinyl records Agree with the above. Differences between one pressing run and another can be dramatic. For the most part, each pressing run requires a new stamper, which introduces a variable. Further, different production engineers or plants often made their st... | |
| rumble issues - see old thread update Agree about the Stillpoints, we both heard similar advantages/disadvantages. Like you, I'd rather not have that compliance so close to the TT. I'd ditch them too if our Salamander rack weren't so ringy (it's like your Dakota Mahogany granite, exce... | |
| SOTA Cosmos or Garrard 301 ? Score to date...Garrard: 2Sota: 2Nicely shaded insights: 3Gmuff's right on target! :-) | |
| rumble issues - see old thread update Oops! Dogma demolition time!"Adding a suspension beneath a non-suspended table" is exactly what devices like the Minus K do. Chris Brady and others have found that it provides major benefits beneath even the heaviest (unsuspended) tables and is ma... | |
| rumble issues - see old thread update Great post, Dan. I agree on nearly all points (except I believe you got it just half right on the granite). Tom, If changing your craz shelf to granite reduced the pumping then it's likely the additional mass lowered the resonance frequency and am... | |
| Clearaudio Double Smart Matrix or Loricraft PRC4 Dan,In our experience, the majority of LP's have some amount of that blurring veil. We agree that it behaves exactly like a thin layer of some contaminant (or lubricant) and it's difficult to remove."Was it the enzymes or was it the extra soak?" I... | |
| Clearaudio Double Smart Matrix or Loricraft PRC4 ... astounded with the improvement in clarity and dynamicsYup. Dan's steam cleaned LP yesterday sounded dull, flat and boring. Yet this was a new 45rpm Blue Note reissue that ought to have sounded at least decent. Actual enzyme soak time was proba... | |
| When does analog compete with digital? Good post by Cerrot. I'd offer a teensy semi-correction. IME one can get where he described with *some* inexpensive cartridges, provided everything else in the vinyl front end is up to snuff. For example, I own a $125 MM. If I put it in my main sy... | |
| Shelter 901: Optimal Impedance The best answer to your question is another question, viz., "Which MC phono stage are you using?"As several have pointed out, the optimal impedance for an MC is system dependent. To be more specific, the type of MC gain has the greatest influence.... | |
| Graham Phantom: Set Up Error Causes Skipping Mcmprov,Not sure what you hope to learn from increasing the tracking force, but inadequate tracking force is unlikely to be the root cause of your skipping. If it were, you'd have heard mistracking on many passages long before an actual skip. Even... | |
| When does analog compete with digital? ...when it comes to more complex music, I much prefer the analytical sound of digital, which is more clear and 'in your face', so to speak. FWIW, the opposite is true in my system. On music of any complexity, regardless of genre, my vinyl setup ch... |