george_a
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| SAEC Double Knife Edge WE 407/23 tonearm There were some very good setup instructions posted on Audio Asylum/Vinyl. A search should turn them up. | |
| Cartridge for Micro Seiki MAX-237 Raul,I have a Max-282 with J-arm and Koetsu Platinum. Do you worry about the inability to change azimuth?Thank you,George | |
| Grand Prix Monaco review in new Stereophile- OUCH Mike said:"That said, the Monaco stomped all over the Merrill (and most suspended 'tables I've heard) in the bottom octaves."I am having a philosophical struggle as to how a table can play the bottom octaves exceptionally and not the rest of the s... | |
| Vibraplane vs. Minus k for Turntables About 10 years ago Stereophile had a good article on vibration control. It is well worth reading. It mentioned Newport Corp, which has a lot vibration control products, and I ended up using their air pods which have active isolation in both horizo... | |
| Balanced or single ended leads from your arm. re BAT balanced inputs:When Viktor made that post in 2000 the VKP10's XLR inputs were not balanced and there was no advantage to using them. At the time Viktor did not think balanced from the cartridge was an advantage. I think the only balanced e... | |
| Do you think you need a subwoofer? Hello Doug,Adding the REL is a quick solution that most likely would result in a nice improvement without any chance of hurting your sound.Ideally, you would want an external crossover so that each driver would get just what it needs but that is n... | |
| Do you think you need a subwoofer? Here's the official statement from REL on their "crossover" (called that for convenience since it is technically not a crossover as it does not have a highpass):"The crossover is not a fixed low pass, but rather a more complex sloping rolloff. If ... | |
| The Schroeder has arrived Sirspeedy,Recalling that you have a Graham arm my friend mentioned that another tuning feature is how tight you make the cap over the fluid resevoir. I don't have a Graham so this is about all I know.Good luck,George | |
| The Schroeder has arrived Hello Thom,Thanks for all the information imparted in your post. You make an excellent point about the lack of azimuth adjustment.Micro Seiki does make a J shaped arm without headshell to which one could add an azimuth adjustable headshell. Of cou... | |
| The Schroeder has arrived Thom, I would be curious if you used the correct 15mm overhang or the erroneous 12mm one given in the manual for the MAX 282. Might be the reason for the mechanical sound.Thanks,George | |
| The Schroeder has arrived Hello Raul,My Max 282 manual actually has things backwards: 12mm for the 282 and 15mm for the 237. This I believe has caused some confusion in the past and reason for my post.Does your manual actually have overhang for the two arms printed correct... | |
| The Schroeder has arrived From an email sent to me from a leading setup authority:"According to my Japanese books from 80s the Effective Length of your Excellent Arm is 282 mm (pivot to stylus). The manufacturer's Overhang is specified for 12 mm.This is not correct. The ca... | |
| Graham tonearm tweaking sirspeedy and Doug, Thanks for the details in your procedures. I now see that both methods are variations on the same theme and pointing in the same direction.sirspeedy, I very much enjoyed the Mercury man parable. My friend told me years ago when... | |
| Graham tonearm tweaking Doug and sirspeedy. Thanks for the answers. It was a little tonge-in-cheeck but I wanted to check for asking the next question.sirspeedy said: "VTA/downforce/Fluid level all work in conjunction with one another." I do understand this is true and h... | |
| Graham tonearm tweaking sirspeedy,Do you change the fluid level for each record? Or once you get fluid level, VTA, and weight where you want them for your most challenging record do you just leave them there?George |