If it sounds 'great', everything is ok?

@elliottbnewcombjr 

Thanks a lot for your assessement and advise. It will be helpful to my friend, as well as other comments. I agree that 71% more VTC as recommended by Ortofon appears to be a bit too much (Wear and tear on the cartridge and stylus). 

My friend needs to invest some quiet time to get the right things done, if he does not want to replace the cartridge after a few month.

To all who contributed in a friendly and helpful manner, I say thanks a million for your support. Much appreciated!

BDW

I'm too old to be a troll,

but not too old to rock and roll 😎

Cheers, eagledriver

@elliottbnewcombjr 

My friend lives in Switzerland. Detour ahead 😃

@dill here here ...        Yaaaaaay!

One thing I love about hanging out around here is when you ask for the benefit of others expertise in the hobby, as long as you do it without being a complete d**k, folks show up pretty quickly with the right answers.

I'm not into vinyl, but love to read some of these threads too, because it's always fun to learn, right?  And who knows, I might be able to at least get in a good barb in, Lol.

my input on this matter:  first of all, there's no such thing as a stupid question. I'm, personally, glad you had the courage to ask, because I guarantee you others had the exact same Q. 

And I have some other heavy wisdom to lay on you. I haven't been at this nearly as long as a lot of others around here, and admittedly I don't tweak much anymore because I'm real pleased with the sound I'm getting out of my system, but I've done my fair share and have come to the conclusion that it's part of the fun of the hobby. 

So have fun tweakin. Because that's one of the ways we learn.

It's not "OK" to assume you're system sounds great...you need to fuss incessantly over tiny details, spend a small or large fortune on hyperbole festooned gear, fill your listening space with sound absorbing ugly stuffings, and take as fact the meandering nonsense of people who have no idea what you like or what your system sounds like. Then face the fact that it's never going to sound as fabulous as anybody else's system and simply give up.