lewm
Responses from lewm
| Dust cover up or down? Clearthinker, I think you ought to add a denominator to your survey. “How many have measured VTF with the dust cover up vs down, and did you detect a difference?” so far, 2 maybe 3 contributors here have both done the comparison and did detect ev... | |
| Dust cover up or down? Elliot, did you ever inspect the underside of your cartridge after playing several LPs? Do you think a dust cover can prevent the Schmutz? | |
| Clearaudio RCM good alternative to VPI? Tube type? | |
| Is a Garrard 401 or 301 "accurate"?? Can you define "damping factor" as it applies to materials of which you might construct a plinth? I can't imagine there is any single value that would describe that quality except if it has specific reference to a single frequency or set of frequ... | |
| Clearaudio Concept cueing lever dropping Is it a hardship to stand by and control the cueing? I usually do that even where the damping is doing its job. | |
| Fozgometer V2 j-wall, Adjusting for azimuth has very little effect on "channel balance" per se. It only affects crosstalk and the fact that it affects crosstalk is the only reason to obsess over it. So, don’t conflate "channel balance" with setting azimuth so t... | |
| Dust cover up or down? Fuzz, I don’t get the last clause of your quote. Leaving the cover up and hinged to the rear edge of the plinth would seem to be the worst possible choice. Fora couple of hypothetical reasons. | |
| Dust cover up or down? Fascinating. I would not have thought the attraction would be so strong over what would typically be the ~6-inch distance or so, between cartridge and dust cover. So ES on an LP can spuriously increase VTF and ES on the dust cover can lower it. ... | |
| Dust cover up or down? Cleeds, now that is a new one to me (dust cover reduces VTF by electrostatic attraction). How did you figure that out, given that you can’t measure VTF with the cover down? Or I guess you could, by raising and lowering the cover with the scale in... | |
| Fozgometer V2 Teo, by your method you’re adjusting for cartridge plus phono plus linestage, not for the cartridge alone. Not that there’s necessarily anything wrong with that. I had a real Uncle Bob, so Bob was always my uncle. | |
| Fozgometer V2 We have two separate questions, the value of setting azimuth accurately, and the value of a Foz to attain that goal. I don’t think anyone would argue it is not a good idea to set azimuth as close as possible to correct, wherever that is. And by w... | |
| Dust cover up or down? Yes. But in storage is better. | |
| Fozgometer V2 j-wall, No, I have never used a Fozgometer. But I have formed some impressions by reading the several discussions of it here. For one thing, it seems odd to me that many report it does not work correctly unless you have "fresh" batteries. The t... | |
| Fozgometer V2 Do a search on these threads, on the subject of "Fozgometer" or "Azimuth". You will find out about the good and the bad. It's a controversial tool, to say the least. I don't know whether version 2 is any different from or better than version 1.... | |
| Denon DL-103 retipped with micro ridge stylus on boron cantilever & denuded body Steve, you do realize I am sure that by adding a brass plate to a DL103 you are surely increasing its weight by at least several grams, although we are not told the physical dimensions of the plate. Since that mass is added right over the stylus t... |