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| What devices have you found useful when inspecting your stylii for cleanliness? And obviously a magnifier of some sort. Shop glasses with built in magnifying lenses work. But more mag power is better. Anyway you can’t possibly get a good look without dismounting the cartridge if tonearm has fixed headshell. | |
| Tonearm paralysis by analysis Raul’s advice is the best you’ve received. | |
| How To Control The Eager Beaver Larry, That is an interesting idea, but I don't get it. The force applied to the stylus/cantilever would be to counter the force of friction between stylus and groove, and here, with a tangential arm, we have a cantilever that is always tangent to... | |
| How To Control The Eager Beaver No, you are correct, RB, there should be no skating force with a tangential tracker. The only side force would be to overcome any friction in the carriage, and there is always some of that, which is why the best LT tonearms in my opinion float th... | |
| Tonearm paralysis by analysis Then you just want a new tonearm with a high effective mass. You've listed a few, except that with the Moerch, you need to specify one of the heavy arm wands, and with the Reed, you want the cocobolo or panzerholz arm wands. The other Reed wood o... | |
| Tonearm paralysis by analysis Add weight to the headshell of your perfectly good tonearm. I think a nickel weighs 5g, for example. That’s the 5 cent solution. | |
| Audio Desk cleaner.....still available? in my 30+ years owning the VPI 16.5 it has been dead nuts reliable, works well by direct comparison to a good US machine, is still in production, and is well supported by VPI. Unless one is burning to have a US RCM or wants the added convenience o... | |
| Recommendations for MM Phono ~ Tube or Solid State On the Black Swan, the capacitor loading switch on the right (per the photo on the website) is labeled in uF (microfarads). That means if you select 0.22, for example, you are loading the cartridge with 220,000 picofarads (10 to the -12 Farads). ... | |
| How To Control The Eager Beaver My only thought is that "just fine" is not quantitative. Most of us would say the same for our pivoted tonearms. Anyway, you raise an interesting question: what difference does it make tracking warps with a pivoted vs a tangential tonearm? Why w... | |
| Recommendations for MM Phono ~ Tube or Solid State Atmasphere, Since your MP1 is inherently a high gain phono section with no need for a SUT, when have you heard it with a SUT? I know there is an option to convert the dual differential cascode input stage into a simpler dual differential input sta... | |
| How To Control The Eager Beaver Have fun with that. The precise proper amount of AS will be different for different LPs and certainly even for different musical passages on any single LP. So, when you set it for Friday Night at SF, it may be correct for parts of that particular ... | |
| How To Control The Eager Beaver Elliot, you meant to say that skating (not “antiskate”) occurs even on blank vinyl, but the magnitude and even the vector direction of the skating force are different when the stylus is tracing a groove. Nevertheless some do set AS using a blank a... | |
| Recommendations for MM Phono ~ Tube or Solid State Atmasphere, I know that Raul is not the engineer of the Essential phonopreamps, I never felt the need to point that out. But I think he is the motive force behind their existence and the design philosophy (dual mono, balanced circuit, very clean P... | |
| Recommendations for MM Phono ~ Tube or Solid State Raul, I never owned a Supex. I heard it at my neighbor’s house when he first bought it, probably in 1974-5. I was not impressed, and it was a few more decades before I ever bought an LOMC cartridge, after having experimented unhappily with HOMCs. ... | |
| Recommendations for MM Phono ~ Tube or Solid State dogberry, "I'm just a gal [guy] who can't say no", so I will acquiesce. I was going strictly on my musical memory of that show. Actually, this morning in the twilight of wakening, I wondered whether the lyric was "cowhand", rather than "cowman". ... |