When is digital going to get the soul of music?

Those that use a good cartridge alignment gauge like the Dennison and tighten up their cartridge bolts are kidding themselves. I believe generally that the cartridge bolt that is closest to the outside of the record corresponds to the right speaker, as you face it. So, you don't completely tighten the bolts. Then you slightly move them one way or the other. When one speaker sounds likes it is in, you stop on that side of the cartridge. You then move, slightly the other side to equal what you got in the other speaker. With anti-skate, you have to realize that you are compensating for the increased pull that you get as you get closer to the end of the record. If it sounds better at the beginning of the record, you don't have enough anti-skate-for example.

This is for the financially challenged. Assuming you have a suspended-subchasis turntable, the spring on the right usually corresponds to what you hear on the right speaker(as you face it). The left spring to the left speaker. The spring towards the back corresponds to the middle of what you hear. As you bring the cartridge(on one side)towards the front, the treble will get brighter(or more prominent). If you get one side sounding better than the other side, stop! Then you try to get the other side to sound as good. Take your time! Go very slowly. It's no problem to keep things static, until you get an understanding of what has happened.

jdaniel@jps.net,
Thanks for answering my question with your post of 1/30/06.
-Bill

I know this off subject, but I have to mention it. Don't try to do something with any cartridge parameter that it wasn't meant to do. In other words, find out what it the best for each parameter and stick with that. If it doesn't provide the bass that you want, then it doesn't provide the bass that you want, period. It requires finding out what each cartridge parameter does what.

I have had access to a current spec APL Denon-3910 cd player for about a week, and it's not broken in yet. First, get the cd, "Jerry Garcia Band's" "After Midnight" at Kean College(in Texas), 2/28/1980. You will not regret it. I would think the Grateful Dead site would have it. Since I received this APL, I really haven't listened to analog, and I have a Linn, Ekos, nude Archiv, Mana table, Lingo. I feel that I have to attend to the turntable's setup before I do, and I thought it was sounding pretty good before this. I'm not sure that I can recommend pure digital recordings yet, but I think recordings made in analog, played back on a good cd player are okay. That has to open up more music for people. For instance, the analog lp's that I listen to are 1981 or earlier, because I found digital lp's recorded after that time to be a problem.