lewm
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| Dynavector Karat 17D3: retip for $500 or get something new? My MMC1 was NOS before I started using it. Now has ~50 hours at most, in a DV505 or Triplanar tonearm (have had it mounted in both). You’re correct; I can’t evaluate the stylus but I can see everything else under my lab microscope. It’s not riding... | |
| A new way of adjusting anti skate! Mijostyn, I would take issue with a few of your points, but I will settle for this one as being the most egregious: "According to the equation the kinetic coefficient of friction changes with groove velocity" Please show me that equation from a r... | |
| A new way of adjusting anti skate! "No overhang, no skating force." Wrong. Underhung tonearms produce a skating force except for the one instant that the cantilever is tangent to the groove (the single null point that one can achieve with an underhung tonearm). Haven’t we been thro... | |
| A new way of adjusting anti skate! Sure. Nowhere did I or anyone else say that groove tortuousity is the sole cause of the skating force. In fact, I think it's a minor factor causing minor ups and downs of the baseline skating force, which is due to friction of the stylus in a vi... | |
| A new way of adjusting anti skate! No. Not to mention the fact that the skating force pulls the stylus toward the spindle. I agree that groove tortuousity does affect the skating force but not because it affects the magnitude of the friction force. Because.... for the Nth +1 time, ... | |
| A new way of adjusting anti skate! Mijo, for the Nth time, stylus velocity is not a factor in determining the magnitude of the skating force. Thus your statement, "listening for distortion and watching the cantilever displace as it hits the record are sort of arbitrary. To get a g... | |
| Changing Turntable to Balanced Output imhififan, Yes, the circuit of the BAT makes balanced sense, assuming the description is accurate. If you want to get crazy, ideally you want the conductors of both phases of the signal to be "the same" kind of wire. For an SE IC, the ground side... | |
| A new way of adjusting anti skate! In the above, I confusingly wrote, "So pre-supposing an effect of velocity on the skating force is invalid, if the angle in the equation for skating force is equal to the headshell offset angle." That’s wrong on the surface. I meant to emphasize t... | |
| A new way of adjusting anti skate! Mijostyn, There you go again! Velocity is NOT a factor in determining the friction force. Friction force is very simply equal to the net force vertical to the contact surfaces of two objects (VTF in this case) times the coefficient of friction, wh... | |
| Changing Turntable to Balanced Output No re-wiring of the tonearm is required. But you’d have to re-terminate the phono cables with XLRs, learn how to do that, and then buy a true balanced phono stage, to realize any benefits. | |
| A new way of adjusting anti skate! Use an amount that does not give you distortion in the R channel (too little) or in the L channel (too much) and does not result in a deviated cantilever after several hours of play. And then, forgeddaboudit. | |
| A new way of adjusting anti skate! Luisma, Depends upon how the AS device on your particular tonearm is graduated. I have often wondered about this. For vintage Japanese tonearms and some modern ones that have magnetic antiskate devices, we typically see the dial marked in whole n... | |
| A new way of adjusting anti skate! That equation is bogus IF it defines “headshell angle”= headshell offset angle. In which case the skating force would be a constant which we know it is not. However, if headshell angle is defined as (tracking angle error + headshell offset angle),... | |
| Acos Lustre GST-1 ...... YAY or NAY. ..... (has Removable Headshell AND VTA on the FLY). But I thought you were only interested in the tonearm that comes with the TT. You plan to sell the TT after purchasing the ensemble. So the next guy can worry about the lack of a DC, or not. | |
| Acos Lustre GST-1 ...... YAY or NAY. ..... (has Removable Headshell AND VTA on the FLY). Dust cover? You don’t need no stinkin dust cover. Two tonearms with VTA “on the fly”. (I hate that term.) Three actually but I want to keep my spare DV505. |