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| SME service is terrible. Can’t buy any accessories from local dealers here in USA Vintage British cars use anything but metric fasteners. Typically “Whitworth”, which is their own system of measurement for nuts and bolts. I guess it depends upon how you define “vintage“.while the UK was a member of the EU, they likely went metric. | |
| Thoughts on moving from a 1200G to Sota Saphire or above Mr m, dedicated phono cables meant only to be used between a tonearm and a phono stage input, usually have a female DIN plug at the tonearm end. A DIN plug mates with a male DIN to be found at the base of the tonearm, and it contains five connecti... | |
| cassettes CAN sound better than vinyl. Is your record player labeled "Mattel"? I bet it's swell. | |
| cassettes CAN sound better than vinyl. Perhaps Lee and viper should start a private conversation and spare the rest of us. | |
| What angle should I set the VTA on my VPI turntable? Hshifi is conflating SRA (~92 degrees) with VTA (~21-23 degrees). The two are interdependent of course.Mijo, an analysis of data in the form of photos posted on vinyl asylum (I think) revealed that most “amateurs” draw the lines incorrectly when a... | |
| What angle should I set the VTA on my VPI turntable? Some time ago, this issue was discussed here. The question then was not "whether" VTF goes up when the pivot point is raised, but "how much" does it go up. Someone did the experiment, and the answer was "not very much", but definitely VTF went U... | |
| What angle should I set the VTA on my VPI turntable? Let me be sure I understand what you are saying, Lutke. You say to place the cartridge on the LP surface at zero VTF, first of all. Correct? Typically when VTF = 0, the cartridge is floating in space above the LP surface, and the tonearm is parall... | |
| What angle should I set the VTA on my VPI turntable? Your model is flawed. | |
| Thoughts on moving from a 1200G to Sota Saphire or above IMO, a dead strobe bulb on an SP10 mk2 is no great loss and would not affect speed accuracy or servo function , I don’t think but could be wrong. (A question for JP.) Also, by saying I thought the SME V is superior to the stock G tonearm I certain... | |
| Thoughts on moving from a 1200G to Sota Saphire or above IMO, a dead strobe bulb on an SP10 mk2 is no great loss and would not affect function. Also, by saying I thought the SME V is superior to the stock G tonearm I certainly did not mean to denigrate the latter. I am sure it’s very good too. | |
| What angle should I set the VTA on my VPI turntable? Dear lutke, I don’t know about your model, but throw it out. Now think that you and a friend are carrying a sofa. On level ground, the burden is equally shared. Now you have to carry the sofa up a staircase. Who is working harder? The guy at the t... | |
| Thoughts on moving from a 1200G to Sota Saphire or above in my opinion, the SOTA turntable would need the eclipse motor upgrade in order to get near to the SL1200 G in terms of speed stability. The electronic fly wheel business makes a nice story. On the other hand, the SMEV tonearm is almost certainly ... | |
| What angle should I set the VTA on my VPI turntable? But if you replace VTA with VTF in cleeds post, the statement is correct, tail up, VTF up. | |
| Measuring "Stylus Drag" with the RPM Speed and Wow app Yes, the tachometer will show you the frequency of speed correction that is needed to maintain 33.333 rpm in spite of stylus drag, in addition to actual platter speed. The Eclipse add on is constantly correcting for such forces. When there is a lo... | |
| Measuring "Stylus Drag" with the RPM Speed and Wow app +1 to what pinDAC wrote. A big advantage of the KAB is battery power. |