dougdeacon
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| help with cartridge selection Stefanl,You're right about those numbers of course. The 103's real compliance has been known for many years, long before John Ellison ever posted about it. My guidance was not based on arm/cart resonance calculations, which are only useful for avo... | |
| help with cartridge selection No experience with any of those cartridges, or with your tonearm for that matter, but what the cartridges that reportedly perform well on your arm all have in common is fairly high compliance. This makes perfect sense. Your arm is relatively low i... | |
| MintLP arc protractor Since a Rega is not designed for Baerwald, *some* cartridges may be too short (from the plane of the mounting holes to the stylus) to be aligned using that scheme. The headshell slots may not allow shorter cartridges to be slid far enough forward ... | |
| MintLP arc protractor Finding the horizontal pivot point on my OL Silver (modded RB-250) was trivially easy...1. Mount the arm to the table (no cartridge needed, keep the stylus guard in place if it's already mounted).2. Stick a piece of scotch tape across the top of t... | |
| cart measurement vs quoted spec I'd rather stay in my corner. With the extra bass loading it really rocks in here! Also, it makes it easy for your slings and arrows to find me. ;-) Glad things are sounding better. :-) | |
| cart measurement vs quoted spec I like watchin' ya'll suffer fer a bit. Drives the lesson home! Wally's price musta bin based on the cost o' them filters. It shore weren't based on the quality of th' box or th' terminals. One of 'em darn near gouged up a connector on a $3K pair ... | |
| cart measurement vs quoted spec Unless you guys include a notch filter to attenuate frequencies above/below the test tone, you're wasting your time using a multi-meter. Surface noise, intra-vinyl resonances and warp wow will muddy the signal you're trying to measure with random ... | |
| anyone use ikea for lp racks? I use Ikea Effektiv because- it's more heavily and solidly built than Expedit - solid back included, so no tipping or leaning- it's a modular design, so readily expandable- it fit my space betterStart with this on the floor: Effektive plinthAttac... | |
| Has anyoe had problems using the mint LP tractor Mordante,If you've never set up a TT before, there's more to it than just aligning the cartridge (which is all the Mint or any protractor can do). If you need resources, check through old threads here, read the archived articles on Vinyl Asylum an... | |
| Annoying Sibilance Problem Axel,My #1 most challenging/torturous LP for reproducing clean high frequencies:Les Plaisirs de la Renaissance, Deller Consort, Harmonia Mundi, HMU 963That Allison Kraus record is difficult because her closely miked voice and its echoes present ... | |
| Annoying Sibilance Problem Silvergsx,You need to tell us about your phono stage and its gain and impedance characteristics before anyone could recommend a cartridge. Might be wise to start a new thread (or search old ones) for that. In general, as several have stated, a lin... | |
| Annoying Sibilance Problem Silvergsx,Switching your preamp to mono may be helping in two ways:1. Many preamp mono switches act as HF rolloff filters, so HF problems simply become less audible.2. Summing to mono may prevent distortions resulting from L and R information that... | |
| Annoying Sibilance Problem Jaytea and Headsnappin are exactly right.Axelwahl wrote:A new recording by Mobile Fidelity... pressing by Classic?: Alison Kraus & Union Station "so long so wrong" side two 'It Doesn't Matter', and even worse 'Find My Way Back To My Heart' are... | |
| cart measurement vs quoted spec All that stuff you are talking about does not even SHOW on the scope!My point exactly. If the tool doesn't suit the task, stop using it and find one that does. I have tried EVERY trick, ... Alignment-tweaks are 'peanuts' if you have such discrepan... | |
| cart measurement vs quoted spec What is valid is that I get distortion at high vinyl levels with massed instruments / orchestra / fortissimo, and it *seems* to tie in with the channel imbalance. At medium level, and less complex music it can not be easily noted, if at all.AHA! F... |