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| VPI TNT Mk 3 – Looking for a tonearm and cartridge The platter is 20 lbs and 1 3/8" thick. It’s not actually lead 'lined". That connotes something thin. The lead is a thick slab of metal forming a flat ring underneath the platter. The ring weight, by the way, extends well past the platter perimet... | |
| VPI TNT Mk 3 – Looking for a tonearm and cartridge "Shame me enough and I will probably relent ;)" Well, I'll do my best.I have an original TNT with the lead lined acrylic platter. Wouldn't change that for anything. I have faith in the non-inverted bearings; mine is a Mark V.A couple of years a... | |
| XMOS XU208 Or Amanero USB? These seem to be USB "bridges". You want USB in; what do you want out?Each of these cards requires a power supply.Do you have a DAC that you want it to bridge to?What do you have? What is your budget?I have an Amenaro card built into my DAC. It'... | |
| VPI TNT Mk 3 – Looking for a tonearm and cartridge "I don't run SDS with the silk drive and know that speed is off a couple of percent as a result but live with it as I feel that consistent speed is more important than absolute speed (within reasonable limits)."IMO for a set-up of such quality you... | |
| BaerWald vs VPI setup protractors @rauliruegas,I wouldn’t call someone ignorant because he takes a different point of view than you do. There is no one "correct" way to set HTA. There is no consensus on what theoretical distortions can be heard. There’s no consensus as to whether ... | |
| BaerWald vs VPI setup protractors Has anyone tried the DB Systems protractor?This is an old design that is intended to align the cartridge, and then is most useful only if the cartridge has straight, square sides.It does not align the cantilever. That would be considered a fatal ... | |
| VTA and Subsequent SRA of Grado reference Platinum 1 cartridge Generally when you lower towards the rear, what we call "tail down," you lose the high frequencies and gain bass.I suggest you run it flat for a while to break it in. Then, if necessary you would raise the tail if you found it treble deficient. | |
| BaerWald vs VPI setup protractors This issue of horizontal tracking angle (HTA) is an interesting one. There is no single correct setting for a pivoted offset arm. This is unlike azimuth where there is an unambiguously correct setting and we all try to get as close as possible. ... | |
| BaerWald vs VPI setup protractors lewm, You may enjoy using an expensive over-engineered device, but if you think that with your $800 machine you get a more precise alignment than I with my Cart-a-lign, you're deluding yourself. Eventually you, like I, have to set the cantilever ... | |
| BaerWald vs VPI setup protractors lewm, first of all, all we are trying to do is set a tangent at two different radii. It is not brain surgery. When you wrote, "This is why Mint protractors are made one by one for each tonearm." it seemed you were ascribing greater precision to th... | |
| BaerWald vs VPI setup protractors In my experience, the Turntable Basic protractor is fatally flawed in that it does not permit the user to precisely locate and align the spindle with the pivot point of the tonearm. You've got to aim it by eye at the pivot, which is usually sever... | |
| BaerWald vs VPI setup protractors One possibility for Baerwald is the inexpensive, mirrored, turntablebasics.com protractor. Will work for any cartridge/arm. | |
| Converting cd's to high resolution audio If you have an Oppo or similar player a simple method is to rip the CDs to a portable hard disk using a program like "Exact Audio Copy.". They can easily be played them through an Oppo via USB directly and controlled from your phone.Or you can use... | |
| To VPI TT users, please provide your experience You can revive a VPI belt by boiling in water for a few minutes and re-talcing.You might also try one of the thread methods. I sometimes use a silk thread sprayed with adhesive. Works great. | |
| VPI TNT Mk 3 – Looking for a tonearm and cartridge For suspension you might consider the squash balls method. You will need 4 plastic platforms, which are probably only available (if at all) from VPI. Not very much money, if available. This was their last TNT suspension which replaced the pneumati... |