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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@mijostyn I bought myself a Clearaudio Smart Gauge, which worked perfectly. I measured a VTF of 1.5 and one turn counterclockwise Anti-skate from its original 2.4g position. Everything sounds sweet, with no distortion on highs. I don’t think it’s a good idea to measure Concept VTF with any other measuring scale.

@atmasphere @rauliruegas @noromance @sandstone @russ69 @chakster @cleeds @teo_audio @gakerty @dalims4 @sandthemall and everybody else:

Thank you for the help; I truly appreciate it.

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Congrats!

It should not matter which scale you use. The one you had must have been defective in some way. 

Spin away,

Mike

@terrible +1  It might be interesting to look at the stylus of that Grado with a microscope.

@mijostyn I doubt it. It reads the 5gm weight perfectly. I think there's a difference in the height it measures it at.

@atmasphere What should one look for?

Buy a new stylus for your Grado, you can even find a better stylus and it will be an upgrade in sound quality.