dougdeacon
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| Record Sleeve Recommendation Yet another vote for the MoFi inner sleeves. If a corner snags now and then, it reminds me to slow down and be more careful while inserting it into the jacket. For me that's a good reminder and a trivial price to pay for the superior protection fr... | |
| Cardas Frequency Sweep and Burn-In Record ? It won't damage the cartridge, or the Cardas LP. I've left slow-to-break in cartridges on those tracks for many hours. How long is needed depends on the cartridge. An arbitrary "rule" like one hour is just that - arbitrary.Important: clean the sty... | |
| Mint Tractor ... garishly-recorded strings and brass still sound bad. The good news: based on my experience there are fewer such records than you probably suppose, especially in classical. System improvements of all kinds (including the Mint) consistently mak... | |
| Lyra Titan i on Basis Vector 4 experience? "The lesson for me is that setup of the entire system is very important in trying to achieve the most out of any system."Truer words...Glad you're enjoying the journey! | |
| Two quick record cleaning methods - enough? Jake4357,To each his own when it comes to cleaning, but to imply that you don't hear a thing so no one does is impressively assertive. I might, with similar hubris, announce that I do hear those things so you do too, whether you know it or not. Bu... | |
| Protractor for Rega 219.5mm Pivot Mounting Jw61,My apologies for an imprecise answer. Some (not all) protractors are indeed designed for one specific tonearm mounting distance only. That will probably include ANY Rega-specific protractor, which will be designed for the Rega-specified mount... | |
| Protractor for Rega 219.5mm Pivot Mounting Any Baerwald protractor will work for a Rega mounted at 219.5. In fact, making sure you can achieve Baerwald alignment even with short-cantilevered cartridges is probably the main (only?) reason for mounting a Rega closer to the platter.Free downl... | |
| Needle on VPI Scout w/ JMW 9 skips....please help It's not likely to be caused by inadequate tracking force, else you'd be mistracking any time you played a passage with heavy dynamics, regardless of location on the LP.It could be just a simple antiskating misadjustment. I doubt it, but you shoul... | |
| Tonearm effective mass Raul,I agree that for practical purposes moment of inertia changes must be made at the headshell end. (Of course as you know, raising headshell mass can impair tracking performance over warps, there's no free lunch.)Hdm,The answer to your last que... | |
| Tonearm effective mass Excellent clarification by Quiddity, thanks. I should have included the proviso that the two c/w's be of the same shape.With apologies to my friend Raul, this question is not as simple as you say. You're correct that changing to a heavier c/w woul... | |
| Tonearm effective mass Correction. If ALL you change is the counterweight (same cartridge, same mounting screws, etc.):- a heavier c/w closer to the pivot REDUCES effective mass- a lighter c/w farther from the pivot INCREASES effective massEffective mass is a function o... | |
| ZYX UNIverse X-SB 0.24 sounding "too much" That's an overly simple assumption. The sonic problem you described could be caused by many things. There's no obvious reason to suspect an arm/cart mismatch. The UNIverse is actually quite forgiving as to tonearms. It sends less stray energy into... | |
| New member w a Cleaning Question SO I was wondering if there's any point in using a cleaning fluid like Audio Intelligent which purports being useable as a hand cleaning (i.e. no vacuum) solution, or will the crud just stay on the record, just maybe move places?Exactly right. Dis... | |
| ZYX UNIverse X-SB 0.24 sounding "too much" David,I'm reminded that my BentAudio Mu's are the copper wired version, and that your silver ones are more transparent by all reports of those who've heard both. Take that into account in your decision.Doug | |
| A question for Graham owners Agree with Curio. I can think of many problems that are more likely to cause mistracking (or mistracking-like sounds) than a tonearm. I've diagnosed mistracking sounds on quite a few setups, and in no case was the tonearm itself to blame. In some ... |