dougdeacon
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| Graham Phantom B44 Specs Most of the carts i choose fall into that 8hz to 12 hz frequency.Sigh, isn't that exactly what I said above? Choose any mid-weight cartridge (most of them) with medium compliance (most of them) and you'll be fine. The Denon is low compliance, whic... | |
| Graham Phantom B44 Specs Agree with Syntax and Raul. The only thing that resonance frequency calculation will do is prevent a gross mismatch. Otherwise it's a mildly interesting waste of time. (Of course, as Raul said, if that's the kind of thing you enjoy, you'll enjoy i... | |
| VPI 10.5i mod....very worthwhile Good tip, Stringreen, but there's no reason to suffer any inconvenience.As I've posted many times, fine tuning VTF is easy on most tonearms. Just slip one or more O-rings onto the end stub, behind the counterweight. Make sure you buy the right I.D... | |
| VPI Classic and ZYX 4D Mark,My apologies for the mis-attribution, and thanks to Stephanoo for stepping up. Clumsy me. :-(BTW the sound at 2.3gr and more AS wasn't that horrible, I mean it was still great. I just thought that there was a little lack of air and I felt lik... | |
| ZYX R-1000 Series Omega-S Calm down, take some deep breaths!No article. A post here, probably several years ago from memory. Describing the different test records different cartridge manufacturers use to quote output specs. Exactly as Myles said. I've posted myself for yea... | |
| VPI Classic and ZYX 4D You're welcome, Stephanoo, though of course the proper interpretation of those tracks is not just my opinion. This has been discussed on vinyl forums for many, many years. Search the archives if you like, it's all there. Reflect: it doesn't make s... | |
| ZYX R-1000 Series Omega-S Dan,Your explanation is consistent with the one Jonathon Carr offered earlier, and with my experience of 8 or 9 (nominal) .24mv ZYX cartridges. They all played more like a .34mv cartridge with any phono stage or stepup I used. Syntax,Agree regardi... | |
| Classics Clarity Vinyl Ian,Have you performed the slow play test on those noisy passages? It sounds like pressing flaws or bad vinyl to me, but you might as well find out definitively. Posting about it won't solve the mystery of any individual LP; investigation will. | |
| Cart not parallel after Mint LP alignment? Indeed, what Lewm said.This is self-evident. If you use a protractor with a different alignment scheme than a tonearm was designed for, the cartridge will not end up square to the headshell. Why would anyone expect otherwise?Try aligning a cartrid... | |
| Benefits of a record ring A glance, a nod, a tilt of the head, some mumbling, etc. Sometimes it is just a shoulder shrug. :-) LOL. You should watch us trying to choose a restaurant. The eyebrow is mightier than the sword. ;-)Mosin, isn't a "record clamp, but not a weight" ... | |
| VPI Classic and ZYX 4D This thread has gone off the rails...1. As Myles Astor pointed out, fine tuning a cartridge when it has only 20-25 hours on it is a waste of time. Mark was wrong that all ZYX's need 100's of hours to break in (the UNIverse needs only 50 or less to... | |
| Benefits of a record ring Maybe nothing to do with arm height per se? Improved power quality at night, fewer appliances running, etc. Most systems sound best late at night...*** Here's the whole craziness ***The master list has two columns:Column 1. the system change that ... | |
| VPI Classic and ZYX 4D Stephanoo,If balancing your cartridge on this tonearm is easier without the screw, there's still an easy way to fine-tune VTF WITHOUT moving the counterweight (which is very touchy and affects azimuth, as you know).Get some O-rings sized to fit sn... | |
| Benefits of a record ring Cousinbillyl, sorry to hear about your recent insanity. Welcome to the ward.Of course we find this makes it VERY fast to dial in for replays. I started maintaining those notes in 2004. Since then we've changed cartridges, tonearms, TT's, TT bearin... | |
| Replacing Ortofon MC20 looking for some recommends Bozzy,Plug the specs of your MM phono stage into the KAB preamp gain calculator . This will tell you how much output it needs from a cartridge. Anything lower and you'll probably need a pre pre or other additional gain.Yes, most high output MC's ... |