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 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. 

What should one look for?

It should look nice and smooth like you see of photos of syli online. It sits on a little platform of sorts and should be perpendicular to it. Usually they are swaged or glued in. I'm thinking there may be an issue with it- since your new cartridge seems to work so well.

 

Dear @terrible  : No audiophile but the cartridge manufacturer really can tell you with the specific toold the true and real condition of a stylus tip.

 

The ones that think can do it are only dreaming with eyes opened.

 

R.

terrible, I don't think anyone has mentioned this but you might consider lowering the tonearm a slight, slight bit, so that the cartridge is tilting upwards. That will help flush out the sound some and it may help with the higher signal. Aside from that, if you have a gain adjustment in your phonostage, I would try turning that down.