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| Nasty Static on Vinyl I missed the bit about the blue lead connector, which is why I was puzzled by the recommendation to change the cartridge clips. Mea culpa.The platter usually does not discharge the LP. According to Shure, the charge simply re-distributes itself on... | |
| What is the Best Tool to Measure Cartridge Azimuth? melm, I hate to say it, but for stuff like this, the ears are woefully inaccurate. To begin with, most of us do not have equal acuity in both ears, not to mention equal frequency response sensing, and not to mention room effects, etc. And then t... | |
| Nasty Static on Vinyl I'm puzzled, because the gain setting of the phono stage would have zero to do with static, and I cannot think of any other electrical phenomenon that would cause the noises you heard or hear. Unless engaging the 67db gain setting switches into t... | |
| Nasty Static on Vinyl I'm sorry. Are you saying the Artech Premium phono cartridge clips eliminate static charge build-up, or are you thinking that the cause of the noises is something else? Thx.Just reading the thread, it sounds to me like the problem is indeed due t... | |
| Moving Iron Carts or stick with LOMC I agree with Nandric’s inference that one cannot ascribe the good or bad sound quality of a particular cartridge to its moving mass. If that were so, it would be very easy to pick out the very best sounding cartridges, by just looking at the spe... | |
| High output MC cartridges I’ve just noticed that “the horn” asked for comparisons between the Blackbird and the Dynavector. He did not ask for opinions on HOMC cartridges. So, I would say, first don’t buy an HOMC. There are many great MM and MI cartridges in the ca $1000... | |
| High output MC cartridges In general I have not liked HOMC cartridges compared to any of many LOMC, MM, or MI types I’ve owned. I’ve owned Benz Glider (2 versions), Transfiguration Esprit, and a few Sumiko’s. Sumiko was just plain not good. The others are sitting in a draw... | |
| Moving Iron Carts or stick with LOMC If you’re going to own more than one or two cartridges, you really ought to sample an MI type. All the foregoing suggestions are good ones. If you’re going vintage also think about Acutex, Astatic, Glanz, and B&O. Most of these are high in c... | |
| What is the Best Tool to Measure Cartridge Azimuth? By the way, I agree that there is no need for a Foz if you have an oscilloscope and know how to use it (which many don’t). You still do need the test LP with 1kHz signal in one channel only. (Needs two bands, one for L channel only and one for R c... | |
| static Issues...anybody know why? What should it do for me? What are you trying to say? Is this in support of the notion that the stylus rubbing on the vinyl causes static charge accumulation? I disagree that this is a major cause, only because it appeared after reading the Shure ... | |
| Nasty Static on Vinyl Are you wearing leather soled shoes? Is your system on a wool carpet? If either is the case, change the environment accordingly. Grounding the tonearm is not so important as grounding the platter, when it comes to static electric charge build-up... | |
| static Issues...anybody know why? Geoff, as regards the skating force, you are either joking or very wrong. What happens on a blank area of vinyl is not a lot different from what happens when the stylus is tracing a groove. Friction and lack of tangency. You can call the skating f... | |
| Ceramic insulator cone under phono stage shocker! For what it’s worth, which ain’t much, the best cones I ever used were and still are the Goldmund cones that are stuffed with a damping putty. | |
| static Issues...anybody know why? The primary cause of the skating force is the friction force between the stylus and the modulated groove. A skating force is generated because of two factors: (1) the headshell offset angle, and (2) lack of tangency to the groove, which pertains e... | |
| What is the Best Tool to Measure Cartridge Azimuth? I use a now ancient Signet Cartridge Analyzer along with its companion test LP made by Shure. The SCA has a ‘scope output, but if you have no scope, it has a dB meter built onto the faceplate. So, play test LP with (usually) 1kHz test tone in on... |