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| The pivoted arm experiment is over "The pivoted arm experiment is over".But the melody lingers on. | |
| ARC Ref phono 2 vs ASR Basis Excl 2010 If RFI is getting in on your cables, no downstream or upstream piece of electronics is going to get it out of your signal. The noise will be translated into distortions more or less by different kinds of gear, but it won't be eliminated. | |
| The pivoted arm experiment is over Dear Nilthepill, I don't think the aphorism "Garbage in; garbage out" applies here. It would be applicable to a situation where one expects a "bad" sounding LP to sound "good", because one is using a $150,000-turntable. In this case, phase distort... | |
| The pivoted arm experiment is over I am with Dertonearm on this one. There are SO many sources of phase error in a typical audio system and in anyone's listening room that what's happening with the stylus is a drop in the bucket. Plus also the "phase linearity" of a particular line... | |
| The pivoted arm experiment is over Dear Oilmanjo, As Mepearson will no doubt also tell you, stress on the cantilever was a hot topic in Mepearson's first thread, which he started by declaring the superiority of linear tracking tonearms. Dear DT, Since you have such a broad experien... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Swampy, Too late. That happened at least 5 years ago, and since I had purchased the cartridge in Tokyo, and since also it was not grossly defective, it never occurred to me to return it. (I am listening to it tonight, in fact. Sounds lovely a... | |
| The pivoted arm experiment is over Dear Meperson, I was delighted with your open-mindedness in the first instance, when you decided to temporarily ditch your ET2 in favor of a pivoted arm. Kudos again go to you for the way in which you conducted your comparison. It is unavoidable t... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? In an MC cartridge, the stylus tip could be well aligned with the groove walls, but if the coils and magnets inside are not square to each other, I think you still could have an imbalance in cross-talk. This is a real problem, because if it occurs... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Hats off to your visual acuity. But still, the inner workings of the cartridge, hidden from direct view inside the body, play a role in selecting optimal azimuth. Perhaps this is much less of an issue with MM/MI types, because the works are partly... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear George,Maybe I am lucky or just live in a place with very low ambient RFI, but I never had a problem with RF pick-up that was traceable to a phono cartridge. Usually, I would blame unshielded wiring before I would blame a cartridge. Grados ar... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? By "neutral" VTA, do you mean tonearm parallel to LP surface? As I noted somewhere above, I was having a real problem liking the Azden until I reduced the amount of positive VTA from "a lot" to "less than a lot". This eliminated a lot of the edgin... | |
| Azimuth observations and importance Dear Doug, the OP asked how to do it with a multimeter. And that;s the question I tried to answer. Such devices do not have filters, true, but I was just trying to describe how one could do it with HIS tools, not the best way possible. Also, it is... | |
| Is There An "Absolute" Best Cartridge? I am afraid that if we met in person, you guys would find out that I am a 21-year-old shapely blond female, and you would no longer pay any attention to anything I say. (Of course, if this were true, I would stay home looking at myself all the tim... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dave, Where are you setting VTA? How did you set azimuth, by ear or by electronic means? Thanks. | |
| Azimuth observations and importance Ideally, you would measure the voltage output where the cartridge attaches to the phono stage. This is really unlikely to work well for the unamplified signal direct from a LOMC cartridge, so the next best thing would be to measure the voltage at ... |