A pitch too High!


Recently, I damaged the V2 MM cartridge of Clearaudio Concept Wood turntable, so had it changed with a Grado Prestige Blue. The VTF for V2 is 2.2g while Grado blue stands at 1.5g. I took someone’s help to fix this. He even made azimuth adjustments and it sounded fine. But I soon realised that the sound had become thinner, voice being the primary indicator and just before the stylus landed on the record, it skipped back a bit then hit the record. Sometimes the tonearm would skip all the way out of the record, backwards. I called the guy back, and he felt the VTF should be fixed to around 2g to avoid the backward skip. He did so and that problem was licked and it seemed the voice thinning issue had also vanished. But last night, I put on the first pressing of Aretha Franklin Amazing Grace, and all along I found her pitch way higher, it was all too high pitched and uncomfortable. Seemed the bass had gone missing a little. On my Boulder 866, I could immediately hear the difference when the track was played through Roon. It was not as high pitched, thin as it sounded on analogue. I intend to call the guy again but wanted to know from experts here as to what the issue could be.
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Dear @terrible  : " Next month I am planning to pull the trigger on SME 12A.  "

That is a great decision, you can't go wrong with. Very good turntable and very good tonearm and yes you can start with the Goldring cartridge selection.

 

Have fun and enjoy it.

 

R.

Don’t listen to people who destroy their records by not protecting them from dust.

 

@mijostyn If you can detect some dust let me know:

 

A typical "destroyed record" as I never used ultrasonic cleaners, I don’t wash records, I just buy them in perfect shape and I do not use dustcovers on my turntables. This rare record was made in 1980:

@chakster , I love those screws. You have a great housecleaner. You need to pay her more and stop spending money on cartridges.

Terrible, now you have two votes for the SME, a Mexican and a Jew. Don't hold out for the Russian. Unlike his ancestors he is in bed with the Japanese.