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| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm But my original point was and is that the arm is heavily weighted, at least 2 lbs, so that when you sit it on a plinth surface that is in turn well coupled to the platter bearing, then there is a sort of coupling. This is not "like a pod" in that ... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm No pod! Pod is an option if you can’t fit it on the plinth surface, for the Nth time I’ve said it. I’m not using a pod. | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm Dave, on the one particular LP I sampled, 72mm from the spindle is nearly the innermost playable groove. The actual recommended distance of ~90mm from the spindle is at least two-thirds of the way from outermost to innermost on that particular LP.... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm What I was commenting on is the lower limit of the necessary distance between the base of the Viv and the stylus tip, if one wants to level the arm wand, which is 45mm. I neglected to mention that if the base of the arm is situated so that the dis... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm It's good to know you've read all my many posts in which I mentioned that underhung tonearms generate a skating force, except at the null point where.... there is zero skating force, in contradistinction to conventional overhung tonearms which gen... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm I think the whole point is that minimizing TAE is not so critical or rather that minimizing skating force is more important. But I will measure the template and see exactly where the null is in mm from spindle. OK. I just measured from the center... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm It’s based on the mounting template provided. IIRC the null point ends up about mid way across the playing surface but I’d have to check. | |
| Annoying trend? New vinyl equalization and compression Most modern day music merits being compressed to the size of the universe before the now hypothetical Big Bang. | |
| TRAVELING TO JAPAN! Recommendations for shops for cartridges? How did you get knives past airport security? Presumably in checked baggage I guess. Decades ago, when I bought a Zerostat in the UK, security at the airport gave me a hard time until I convinced them it was not a gun. | |
| Graham Phantom Elite vs. AS Aquilar Mijo would prefer the original AR XA tonearm over the EPA100, given his druthers. Because the former tonearm more closely adheres to the various tonearm engineering gospels and based on his now 40 years ago listening experiences that took place in... | |
| saec 407/23 headshell compatability Take a close look at the SAEC headshell that does not hum. What is different about it compared to the 3 that do hum? Pay particular attention to the orientation of the contacts points where headshell joins arm wand. | |
| Tokyo shops? Cartridges and vinyl gear Yodabashi Camera in Akihabara has what you want, including Onzow. | |
| The "Very Best Record Cleaning Formulation" Dear Wizzzard, You might start by taking a look at the topics of long-lasting threads here on the Audiogon Analog forum. You probably would note that the same or very similar issues arise over and over again. For some topics there is seemingly a... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm Correction: the stylus underhangs the spindle by the distance of the spindle from the arc described by the stylus once it is set to produce a single null point at the center of the playing surface. Not quite what I wrote above. | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm Viv (not "vivid") supply a mounting template which is an L-shaped piece of plastic into which a hole is drilled for the spindle. You then place the template over the spindle and align the arm wand to be in line with the other leg of the "L", and s... |