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| Tonearms with no anti-skate adjustment Effects of tonearm geometry and mass distribution on the measurement of VTF :http://www.tnt-audio.com/sorgenti/in_balance_e.html There you go. Settled once and for all :)Not a big deal with many tone arms. But a very big deal with arms unipivots... | |
| How long should a clearaudio maestro v2 last? Pretty sophisticated stylus profile on that cartridge, apparently the same as on the Goldfinger. I would think that, properly set up and playing clean vinyl, you should be able to get 1500-2000 hours out of that stylus. | |
| Audio Additives Stylus Force Gauge inconstantcy As I stated above, the Canrong I used for 7 years that cost $50 10 years ago was "lab quality instrumentation". Clearly. And considerably more resolving and accurate than the Winds. One might argue, I suppose, that I just got lucky and got a good ... | |
| Audio Additives Stylus Force Gauge inconstantcy Personally, I have not had problems with the Canrong scales over the years. These are the scales commonly referred to as the cheap, Chinese, rebranded etc. The first one I bought had .000 grams resolution and I think I paid about $50 about 10 year... | |
| Grace F14 MONO cartridges and styli I'm not sure what I'm missing either. Just totally confused at this stage. Thought you were asking for guidance in hooking it up and you're already hooked up. | |
| Grace F14 MONO cartridges and styli http://www.vinylengine.com/turntable_forum/gallery/image/11746/medium Yes. Looking at the headshell from the front, right side up (not upside down!) you want red to upper right and green to lower right. White upper left and blue lower left. Lookin... | |
| Grace F14 MONO cartridges and styli Chakster:Try this. But be careful with that cartridge. If it has fairly high tracking forces and you cannot establish whether it has vertical compliance, I would not advise you to be playing any mono reissues that have been cut with a stereo cutte... | |
| Audio Additives Stylus Force Gauge inconstantcy That is a very big discrepancy; it’s normal to have some minor discrepancy with any of these gauges and especially those that have 3 decimal point resolution but that is huge. Also, try to hit the centre of the dot each time.In light of the fact t... | |
| broken dreams - new cartridge help please! Rick: I think that you will be extremely happy with your retipped Axia. You're retipping like for like with boron cantilever and as long as the stylus is similar in profile I very strongly doubt that you'll hear any difference, certainly any signi... | |
| Grace F14 MONO cartridges and styli Somebody can correct me if I am wrong but my understanding is that stereo cartridges will typically be 2 coils at a 45 degree orientation to allow pickup of both vertical and horizontal signal. Mono cartridges will either be a single coil mounted ... | |
| Grace F14 MONO cartridges and styli Not necessarily "bridged internally". Maybe, maybe not. There’s a lot of great info provided by JC in the thread linked below:https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/which-mono-cartridge-at-around-1-300-00 Generator and coil orientation is the key.... | |
| Mint LP provides Stevenson Alignment I have four of them here. Only one of which is Stevenson. Two Baerwald and one a modified Lofgren B. So that would be news to me. Mind you, I have known what I wanted each time I ordered and specified that with Yip. He had no problem delivering wh... | |
| Mint LP provides Stevenson Alignment If you don’t specify a specific alignment when ordering Yip will provide you with designer intended alignment for your specific tonearm. That could be Stevenson, Baerwald, Lofgren or proprietary (ie. Technics, Rega). So he is 1) not supplying Stev... | |
| broken dreams - new cartridge help please! Have Andy Kim at phonocartridgeretipping.com or Steve Leung at VAS Audio quote you a retip with a new boron cantilever and microridge or line contact stylus. Send it to either of them and you'll probably have it back within a couple of weeks and i... | |
| VAS (Steven Leung) cartridge repair/retipping service? Absolutely. I'm currently running an Accuphase AC2 which I purchased without a stylus on it off ebay. I had another re-tipper re-work that cartridge about 4-5 months ago with a Namiki boron cantilever/microridge stylus combination and it is a beau... |