johnbrown
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| Last 3rd of LP has High Feq. Distortion Everything DD said-especially the part about more info. You've told us nothing-what is your gear, how long have you had your cartridge, do you do your own setup work, what kind of protractor do you use, do you clean your stylus between plays, etc.... | |
| VPI Scout "tweaks" Remove the foam collars from the top of your cone footers. Screw cones tight to the bottom of the plinth. Don't unscrew the cones to level the tt-use a combination of nickels/dimes/quarters to achieve level (coin combos may be epoxied together). C... | |
| Fremer/SSM w/Rim Drive Gmuffley-Some here that I respect (DougDeacon for one) have tried the (Teres) rim drive, and found it lacking relative to their tape drive. What I'd like to see VPI produce is a motor pulley designed for tape drive, and a bearing system to wrap th... | |
| Upgrade turntable or buy a record cleaning machine Agree with Tketcham, at least concerning the RCM. Depending on your current collection of records that need to be cleaned, anything that helps reduce the drudgery is well worth the money. i.e., if you have 500+ lps, get, at least, something that s... | |
| Fremer/SSM w/Rim Drive Note the ad copy for the new VPI 'Classic':*New investment cast aluminum high inertia platter with precision inverted bearing.*-Acrylic platters now suck*Speed stability on par with a master tape - Due to the rigid mounting of motor - platter - to... | |
| Vpi aries with Benz L-2 cartridge It's possible that an 'idler' might be more to the OP's liking, but I'd sure not recommend a Lenco, if for no other reason he'll be forever linked to 'Jean Nantais-The Analog Blowhard', and his crew of toadies over on Home Despot-but then there's ... | |
| Vpi aries with Benz L-2 cartridge taters-You don't need to buy anything to check the speed. A download-and-print strobe is available here:http://www.conradhoffman.com/chsw.htmand any light source will work-fluorescent works best, but incandescent works also. The main advantage of ... | |
| More convinced of analog than ever Geez, the OP posted an innocuous (though well scribed) little muse reflecting on his sonic preferences after visiting a retail shop, and all of a sudden he's a "snob", and turntables are valued more for their visual presentation. And, of course, v... | |
| More convinced of analog than ever I haven't had a chance to listen to the newest and greatest, but my RBCD player is no slouch (BAT VK-D5) and though it's fine, and it's a necessity for me to have a CD player, there's no real comparison to vinyl. I play my tt at least 75% of the t... | |
| RIP VPI TNT Requiem For A HeavyweightIt *is* the passing of an icon-I can fully understand your feelings for this tt, and thanks for the post. Sad that VPI hasn't given this deck a proper memorial. | |
| Turntable Speed To VPI's credit, they do give you the ability to (slightly) adjust speed even without a motor controller-the motor pulley on their decks is 'stepped' from a larger to smaller diameter, thus allowing you to move the belt to the pulley diameter that... | |
| Turntable Speed Dan-ed-You're right of course-I should have emphasized the theoretical nature of that thought process (-:Still, with the correct circuitry designed for a specific motor and application, you'd think they could get it right.To take it a little furth... | |
| Turntable Speed AC synchronous motors are dependent on the line frequency for correct speed (such as the aforementioned Scout) so I imagine that VPI offering the SDS as an aftermarket accessory (though in reality it's a necessity, since frequency can vary, thus c... | |
| Are you using anti-skating or not It's impossible to set appropriate antiskate for each record, at every point of the record. I've found that a (very) small amount of antiskate is a good compromise. And no, there are no tracking issues, and I don't set VTA "higher than optimum".I ... | |
| VPI Speed Problem And here he is, Dave's li'l buddy, Yogi and Boo Boo, Mutt and Jeff, Skipper and Gilligan, the two Lenco Heroes, who somehow can't contain their "enthusiasm" for JN to their own thread, but are following each other to jack threads that have nothing... |