tonywinsc
Responses from tonywinsc
| Scraping sound The best starting point is a cartridge that is parallel to the record surface. The suspension on the cantilever should hold the stylus at the proper angle if VTF is within design parameters. From that point, you can adjust the back of the tonearm ... | |
| Electric Bill I worked out at the railroad yards my first summer starting college in 1976. I walked into a radar shack one day. This building had a radar that read the speed of the railroad cars and applied braking to control their speed. The whole thing was do... | |
| Scraping sound Is the back of the tonearm scrapping the edge of the record perhaps? | |
| Hi-Fi Fuses - SNAKE OIL? - or something in it? I have a RS bulk tape eraser. I hold the cd in one hand and the bulk tape eraser in the other. I turn on the coil and move it to the cd from the side, not from the top. I hold the coil on the label side of the cd for about 10 seconds and slide the... | |
| Am I totally nuts or just a bit off? A stereo record has almost twice the amount of information packed into the groove as compared to a mono recording. Something must have been lost to gain the L+R information. Tracking has to be easier for a mono recording. It's kinda of like a high... | |
| Hi-Fi Fuses - SNAKE OIL? - or something in it? Sorry, I didn't mean to hijack this thread. Anyway, I have never tried expensive fuses and I don't plan to. | |
| Hi-Fi Fuses - SNAKE OIL? - or something in it? Light isn't really affected by magnetism; otherwise magnets would look blurry or distorted. Gravity and a change in medium, ie. air to water or to vacuum are the only things we know of today that affect light's properties. And I have heard the mag... | |
| Am I totally nuts or just a bit off? Imagine: If the internet had been around in the late 50s everyone would have been discussing how stereo and Solid State was ruining HiFi and young people- a conspiracy by music shops to make us buy two of everything.I had an Uncle that was into Hi... | |
| Hi-Fi Fuses - SNAKE OIL? - or something in it? Brownsfan brings up an interesting point. Tweaking, or refining maybe does more to dial in a particular system in it's own setting than offer a generalized improvement across the board for everyone. That's probably why we see different responses f... | |
| Sota Cosmos armboard screws How about that. I stand corrected. The plinth materials and design apparently changed over time. | |
| Sota Cosmos armboard screws Drywall screws doesn't sound good or original equipment. My Sota has short machine screws, flat undercut type with Allen sockets. I don't recall the size or length. | |
| progress? "I own several very high compliance cartridges that I mounted in heavy mass tonearms and performs very well."Hi Raul, I believe that is possible if your turntable is very well isolated, has low rumble and has a way to keep the record perfectly fla... | |
| progress? Not surprising that the cartridge could track low freq better with a system natural at 5Hz; because that is further away from the 20Hz+ musical frequencies. It could be ideal if not for the other parameters that must be addressed, ie. warps in rec... | |
| progress? Actually, the accelerations at the stylus would need to be the same in order to generate the same frequencies and amplitudes. So the grooves would just be elongated and not quite as pronounced on a 45rpm version. Also, you would have to flip the r... | |
| progress? To summarize; that magic number for the correct compliance/effective mass yields a system (tone arm and cartridge) natural frequency around 10 Hz. |