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| What angle should I set the VTA on my VPI turntable? @noromance Raised at the back is lighter and brighter. Lower is heavier bass and rolled off highs. Find your preference in between. This is the most common mistake in setting VTA.VTA should not be used as a tone control.The correct VTA is when the... | |
| Hear my Cartridges....🎶 @halcro cc @frogman Glanz with teeth - Much better now.Marias voice is more articulated, leading edges of words are clearer, you can hear her chest cavity, more power, dynamic contrasts, tonal colours vastly better - she soars.With regards to the ... | |
| 3 New UBER Decks - Is this Turntable's SwanSong? 🦢 @richardkrebs That said, within its limitations, the platter speed app does give a reasonable snap shot of what the platter is doing and is thus useful in differentiating between TT’s, as I have been trying to demonstrate. I dont agree - too many ... | |
| 3 New UBER Decks - Is this Turntable's SwanSong? 🦢 @halcro Maybe that’s the reason each different tonearm produces a different result on the same turntable....?Very much so. I have had a lot of arms, including the ET2 on my Final Audio VTT1 TT over the years, with the same group of cartridges.Here... | |
| If I could afford, I’d purchase 100% Oswald Mills Audio gear @bestgrooveohh no no no ..... the follies FOR the wealthy!Very succinct.Indeed - perhaps the OMA represents the Folies Bergere of the audio world. Perhaps they deliver it with silk knickers for cleaning and a special costume to cope with stylus drag. | |
| 3 New UBER Decks - Is this Turntable's SwanSong? 🦢 @halcro It’s all smoke and mirrors and fanciful postulation from the uneducated. It is not possible to measure wow & flutter using a test record. If you use a rotary function generator to measure the turntable performance directly off the plat... | |
| MY SONIC LAB Cartridges @nandric "some folk" in my post above is not Lew. It is others who post definitive statements on products that they have never heard. | |
| 3 New UBER Decks - Is this Turntable's SwanSong? 🦢 @halcro I do not "not read reviews" or "ignore interesting writings" - I am saying you should take them as guides only, not gospel.I am not being harsh on Mikey, I'm 61 - I know my hearing is good - 18khz at my last hearing test, and reasonably fl... | |
| MY SONIC LAB Cartridges @nandric I note that you are very invested in philosophy, logic and reason.I was wondering what thoughts you might have to explain why some folk sincerely believe they know what a product sounds like without ever having heard it, nor the system in... | |
| 3 New UBER Decks - Is this Turntable's SwanSong? 🦢 @antinn Some of these uber tables have impressive amounts of engineering, but they have yet to correct the spindle hole centering issueThe wow and flutter induced by eccentric records would far exceed the minor deviations in speed of a decent turn... | |
| 3 New UBER Decks - Is this Turntable's SwanSong? 🦢 I met Michael Fremer in the 80’s - he’s a lovely guy, but the reality is he is now 74 years old by my reckoning.The chances that he can set up a top end turntable accurately is remote.The chances that his hearing is up to par is not high.I always ... | |
| MC Cartridge for Pro-ject Debut Carbon seasonedI agree with bkeske - the Project TT & Arm are not good enough for a moving coil, you will get a better result, more musical, with a medium compliance moving magnet.Recommendation would be Soundsmith MI cartridges if they fit your budg... | |
| Question on Denon DL-103 retipping options and preferences justinrphillipsHi - I know the Audiomods arm, I have set a couple up, including one on a the top of the range Platine Verdier turntable,.In my view forget about the Denon 103 standard or modded - the arm does not suit it.For your budget for a MC u... | |
| Bergmann Galder Turntable @pgaulke60Congratulations - no substitute for using your own ears - we all hear differently and its always great to see what happened from the OP. | |
| MY SONIC LAB Cartridges @edgewear At each pricepoint the differences are small, so if you get a deal on a particular brand you are getting value for money.I like to think the AC-6 combines the best of both ’worlds’. Just kiddin’ of course, but it’s definitely a highly ’n... |