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| Help... my turntable is alive! Good suggestion Folkfreak. Indeed, I've often used those terms myself. ;)Of course, since they are synonymous, if we substituted one of these into Cleeds "objection" it would have emerged as, "There's no such thing as a tail-down VTA! That's physi... | |
| Help... my turntable is alive! Dear Cleeds,Since you haven't offered an alternative convention but merely stand by your original position there's little more to be said. I'll keep using that convention because it does describe the tonearm's attitude with respect to a neutral re... | |
| Help... my turntable is alive! Dear Cleeds,I think you are are confusing angular quantification of VTA with *someone's* attempt to indicate the direction of a VTA adjuster on a tone arm. This "positive" or "negative" attitude does not attempt to account for angular displacement... | |
| Help... my turntable is alive! Never thought about it before but here's my take on it : if one considers that the pivot is the primary means of adjusting VTA and that the movement is constrained to the vertical axis, if one assumes that "horizontal"/"neutral" VTA is effectively... | |
| Help... my turntable is alive! Dear Jim(Jea48),We posted simultaneously so I didn't see your comment until the window refreshed.Many thanks for posting that link. :)It seems I’m not the only one with a "BS" problem ;^)What a relief to know I’m in good company! :DBill | |
| Help... my turntable is alive! Dear Cleeds,Positive, Neutral, Negative VTA are popular expressions which have been around for a while.Put simply, it’s easier to type "Negative VTA" rather than "I arranged the tonearm so that the pivot was lower than the stylus" or a similar ver... | |
| Help... my turntable is alive! Sounds like something could be mechanically "bottoming out" if it is periodic e.g cartridge rear end hitting a warp or negative VTA causing the thicker section of the tone arm to hit a warp(?)It's a long shot but perhaps when the Graham counterwei... | |
| Tonearm microphonics BTW Handymann, I agree those MAXX2s of yours are glorious loudspeakers when working solo. I wouldn't be unhappy with them at all. Just leave the termites to their devices. (Pest controllers say that you can hear termites munching inside the walls.... | |
| Tonearm microphonics Watch out for those termites! ;)Studies have shown that termites eat your house twice as fast if you play them some Black Sabbath.... :) :) | |
| Tonearm microphonics Dear Bdp24, Sincere thanks for your excellent and well written post. I knew that if we “mechanical laymen” poked the problem with a stick for long enough, someone would weigh in with some actual research ;) I had completely forgotten about th... | |
| VPI 2nd Pivot for 3D Dear Raul,It's ok.... I knew you were talking about a vintage item. I'm guilty of conversationalising off-topic. :(Apologies Stringreen.best regards,Bill | |
| Tonearm microphonics Atmasphere is right to point out that there are adverse side effects where the geometry of the disc is not uniform and flat when external damping in the form of silicon goop is applied.Not only does it damp resonance but it also exerts drag on the... | |
| VPI 2nd Pivot for 3D Hi Raul,Thanks for your thoughts on the widespread use of ABEC9. Of great interest is the fact that that there are buyers who wish to supersede the Technics tonearm (excellent quality) on the new SL1200 with {insert as applicable} tonearm? Vand... | |
| VPI 2nd Pivot for 3D Hi Raul, I agree with your earlier statement that there will always be trade-offs. My main reservations about gimballed bearings are “brinneling” & stiction. 40 years ago when I was making my earliest forays into “serious” hifi, “Flat-Earthe... | |
| Bass distortion-Playing LP's only,,,,please help Dear Ralph,"...is probably adversely affecting its compliance..."I remember hearing about that theory at the time and thinking it sounded "ropey". I have great respect for JC but how resistive loading could influence compliance (physical/mechanica... |