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| Alignment tool for SME V + Shelter Axel, please! It is NOT another "VTA post" ;-) You do me an injustice!VTA and SRA are NOT 'loosely' related. In fact, they are not related at all! You really need to edumacate yourself if you want to discuss such subjects.Yes, the torque of the fi... | |
| Covering silver wire for use as a speaker cable My favorite solution for temporarily keeping bare wire away from other things and each other, is to thread the runs through foam swimming pool noodles. (Very festive!)They also make great cable lifters cut into 6" lengths and threaded onto the spe... | |
| What happened to Exact Power DM, I agree with that (last) advice, and hope many of you will take a minute to express your enthusiasm -- hopefully before Aug 13th ;-) | |
| Alignment tool for SME V + Shelter Axel, you clearly did not read my thread on SRA."VTA" isn't even a real world entity (or concept or whatever) and is absolutely useless. People who think VTA is real are indeed doomed to "keep on chasing 'sound'" because VTA doesn't exist (unless ... | |
| Alignment tool for SME V + Shelter Axelwhal, believe it or not, there is a small coterie of SME V owners who are quite anal retentive. They're the ones who refuse to use the arm with the finger lift attached, and who remove the bridge across the main bearing.With all audio refineme... | |
| What happened to Exact Power DM, I actually have a bit more cred than the average Audiophile, but I think Mr. Schluter wants to meet as a result of several emails I sent urging him to rethink his marketing strategy. After all, he's a businessman, not a philanthropist ;-)His c... | |
| What happened to Exact Power Much as I love the design, Darkmoebius is right, Exactpower was bought by Middle Atlantic Products last year and they have stopped producing/supporting consumer units (partly because a major parts supplier went bust.) And their commercial products... | |
| Alignment tool for SME V + Shelter Nandric, Jonathan Carr (who manufactures the very fine Lyra cartridges) and I agree completely, even though I said it somewhat differently.I said:Because of the fixed cartridge mounting holes, the arm length of an SME (and pretty much ONLY an SME)... | |
| Alignment tool for SME V + Shelter Dan, the SME slide mount moves the entire tonearm (pivot and all) back and forth, pretty much toward or away from the spindle. Moving this carriage does not change the arm length, which on an SME is 233mm from pivot to the tip of the stylus (of a ... | |
| Alignment tool for SME V + Shelter "P2s and effective length are not dependent on the cartridge used." True. They are instead dependent on the tonearm design and must not be changed. Providing slotted headshell mounting holes therefore allows mounting the cartridge so the exact sty... | |
| Alignment tool for SME V + Shelter Nandric, in all alignment procedures (except the SME) it's mandatory that a prescribed stylus-to-pivot distance (sometimes called 'Effective Arm Length') be maintained (thus necessitating slotted headshells ;-)Further, a fixed arm length requires ... | |
| Alignment tool for SME V + Shelter Tobes, I think you miss the point of the SME's brilliant design when you say "as you no doubt realise, the SME V cannot be adjusted for effective length because of it's unslotted headshell mounts."First of all, with an SME there is no need to adju... | |
| Alignment tool for SME V + Shelter Dan, like I said, the SME alignment templates, though beautifully made, rely on 'by eye' guesstimates, which hardly cut it at that level of refinement; and I'm confident anyone who has ever used them would agree ;-)The DB alignment protractor is a... | |
| Alignment tool for SME V + Shelter Nobes, I understand your point, although I think "several mm" variation may be an exaggeration, especially with today's cartridges.I'm not familiar with the use of the Mint alignment tool. However, I do know that a DB protractor gives accurate two... | |
| Any fix for a locked groove? Axelwahl, SME makes a 'headshell spacer' to solve the problem you're having. I use one with my Transfiguation cartridge -- most modern MC cartridges are rather short (heightwise) and the back of the armtube invariably will hit the edge of the reco... |