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| VTA adjustment for VPI 10.5i tonearm Regardless of how look at it, it's what you hear that matters. Making your armtube or cartridge perfectly level is pointless. Marakanetz's advice was useful, being specific to your cartridge, but even the ideal visual indicator (SRA measurement) o... | |
| TriPlanar Tips How does a person adjust the short pin that sticks out of the front of the cueing frame? Is this just a matter of putting a bit of pressure on this to force it down relative to the arm cueing support bar?Yes, it swivels down or up as required, pre... | |
| Lyra Helikon vs Skala Constancy is not a virtue in this hobby.It most certainly is, though it's not much practiced. | |
| TUBE NOOB: WHAT BRAND One tip for lower microphonics: choose tubes whose internal plate structure appears robust. Some tubes have tall, thin vertical plates that look like a gentle breeze would tobble them over. Such tubes TEND to sound bloated, rosy or microphonic.Oth... | |
| TriPlanar Tips Hi Jfrech,Glad #11 is working for you too. A friend in LA first suggested it to me and everyone who's tried it seems to agree.Regarding A/S, reducing it to the minimum needed for clean tracking improves microdynamics, low level detail and harmonic... | |
| Noob problems guys Crackling sounds synched with loud/dynamic passages is *very* likely caused by the stylus momentarily losing contact with the groovewalls. This is called "mistracking".1) An uncontrolled diamond chisel bouncing around inside a plastic groove will ... | |
| Two quick record cleaning methods - enough? I would like to streamline the process. What step to eliminate? Me too, since my process is even longer. Trouble is, we hear the improvements, or the lack thereof if we skip any of our steps. To each his own of course.... has anybody tried plain d... | |
| New vinyl's noisy little secret Toscanini through a megaphone, oh no!I'd take Toscanini through a mattress vs. most conductors, even live! :-) | |
| Arm geometry and mounting distance My question is this:-If your tonearm MOUNTING DISTANCE is out by 5mm (1/4"), can you accurately align the arc using the Wally or Mint and thus all will be well?No. Two independent factors must be correct for a stylus to trace the arc on such a pro... | |
| Killing sibilance distortion - VPI & Jubilee Sibilants, according to one source, is (treble) information out-side of the time envelope.First, lets get our terms straight. "Sibilants" is the plural of "sibilant", which is a word for the sound shared by the letters "s", "sh", "z" and "zh" (in ... | |
| Graham Phantom vs Triplaner Andrew, Long time no hear. Guess you've been enjoying too much music to waste time posting about it. :-)Interesting report. You certainly makes it worth thinking about trying a P2. I'll take exception to the statement that VTF drifts with the TriP... | |
| Killing sibilance distortion - VPI & Jubilee We know its not a bad LP. Goatwuss has stated he gets similar distortions on many LP's. This one is just the example he chose.If you have the entry level version JMW then I believe it lacks the fluid damping well that comes on higher models.IME wi... | |
| Record Cleaning Machine RCM Just re-read Bill's post and realize I misinterpreted his use of the word "manual". I thought he was towel drying or something. One of my many youthful mistakes!While I appreciate motored rotation of the LP it's certainly not necessary, especially... | |
| New vinyl's noisy little secret Agree with Nsgarch and Bosrt. There's no RCM listed in your system. There should be, and all LP's - new or used - will benefit from using it. I don't enjoy cleaning LP's any more than Bosrt, especially new ones, but the sonic benefits (at least in... | |
| Record Cleaning Machine RCM I too would love to know how Bill manually removes grunge-laden cleaning solutions from inside the grooves without vacuuming. If you don't remove it all quickly the liquid evaporates but the grunge remains behind - and nothing IME removes liquid f... |