What Digital Stylus Force Gauge Do You Like?

Bob is absolutely right IMO, however that hasn't stopped a few manufacturers from offering some really cute little cartridge warming lamps, ha ha!!

I mean, if it's THAT cold in your listening room, you need to stop buying vinyl and start paying your heating bill!

Also, on the serious(?) side, some cartridge manufacturers, notably Transfiguration, are touting a new "space-age" (are we still in the space age?) suspension material that is unaffected by variations in temperature from Pluto to Mercury! So maybe that will be a non-issue eventually.

Of course the vinyl compliance varies with temperature. It does flex as the stylus tracks the groove. The RCA "Dynagroove" LPs include signal processing intended to counteract the vinyl compliance.

I have a thermostatically controlled ear wax HVAC implant. This reduces variability in a most important parameter.

Eldartford: Oy! Now it's the VTVG (variable temperature vinyl gremlin) we have to worry about! It can all just make you meshuga!!

Gilda Radner must have been thinking of us when Rosanne Rosannadanna says "It's always something!"

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Dear Bob: +++++ " and all this fuss about needing .01g precision for VTF measurement is misplaced. " +++++

I agree completely about.It is not only by the temperature subject or vinyl compliance ( like Eldartford told us ), it is too because does not exist any single LP that is totally flat and with the exactly the same thick over the recording area, so what sense has to have that 0.01g of precision for VTF?: none but a waste of time.

Slowhand, you don't need necessary a digital device, the analog Shure device is really good: this one is what I'm using for many years and I know that several people use it with good results.

Regards and enjoy the music.
>Raul.