How are you playing your precious MONO Vinyl?

@elliottbnewcombjr ;

danmar123

Nice setup!

for those here who want to know the difference, i.e. "that’s good enough for my small need".

You are a good one to tell us what happens in your system with your particular Mono LPs.

a. play the stereo cartridge with the preamp in Mono position

b. play the mono cartridge, perhaps name a few LPs it makes an ’easily noticeable’ improvement

b1. leave switch in Stereo position (no need to use mono position with a true mono cartridge) (especially interesting for others who don’t have a stereo/mono switch, i.e. you don’t need both

b2. move to Mono position, in your case, is it just habit, or do you hear a benefit?.

Thank You!

I’ll try this weekend & take notes. Recovering from spine surgery 7 weeks ago. I haven’t even turned my 2 channel system on since the beginning of March. To be continued. Dan

@danmar123 

Wishing you a speedy recovery! 

@danmar123

ditto: Wishing you a speedy recovery!

I often listen to Mono from my reclining chair on my porch, where most of my recovery from 31 surgeries has occurred, and often use the Mode Switch, so true mono cartridge, then L+R to L projects only the Left Speaker diagonally into the room, out to the porch 

or, Listen from the far right corner, sofa next to my coffee warmer, and perhaps while I eat, the coffee table rises up for meals/snacks. The two chairs simply spin around for either 2 CH music or 5.1 video.

I hope you have a team fetching you stuff. Donna can handle the TT properly, and loves music too, so whatever I’m in the mood for

after ’generally’ getting the arm level

Removable Headshells, even high quality ones, might not be perfectly level with the arm, so you need to check both Azimuth and VTA at the headshell, when down on the mirror or in the groove, suspension properly flexed by tracking weight.

I just ordered this versatile kit of inexpensive levels, I’m not planning on leaving them on, but they are sized to fit hot shoes on cameras and I can compare the cheap things to my better quality levels, I have found some good, some not in the past

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09W4GQZV7?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title&th=1

I use a speck of sticky tack to defy gravity and temporarily hold something like a level, or a cartridge nut in a tiny place until I get a screw started

sticky tack, just pinch of a speck or two

I use this mirror, same thickness as an LP, any deviation from straight is ’oppositely’ reflected, makes it easy, and the level can confirm if all is well.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07T31MRZ9?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_dt_b_fed_asin_title_2&th=1

@elliottbnewcombjr 

May your trifecta of stylus track true and oodles of nifty accessories stretch the soundstage to the heavens!