New Maplenoll Ariadne owner needing advice

crem1--added some better pics of the arm and zlift before i tore apart to rewire with the small diameter silver wire. look under my system for new pics.

Oilman,

Looks very interesting. You may want to experiment with the angle of your counterweight. Lloyd recommends either down or even depending on the weight of the cartridge but never up.

I usually have it level but adjusted to get a better view of the zlift arrangement. THe reason up is not good is that a small move in arm height dramatically changes the force on the record. You were right on about the diameter of the wire. Ugh, 50 bucks down the drain! I am back at trying to handle the smaller diameter wire. thanks as always for your tips

I finished the wiring on the arm using the lighter weight, silver wire. At the point, I am going to take a break from tweaking and just listen a while. The silver wire has resulted in a brighter high frequency and more resolution of the highs. Cymbals, glass bells, etc have far greater clarity, also I have found i need less volume from my system to get the same sound levels (using a sound meter). Not sure if this was just from the silver wire compared to the stock copper wire, or the fact I am going right from the tonearm to the stepup. (less length of cable and few connections). I still need to hook up the dampening trough but pretty impressed with the new setup

Oilmanmojo: Just a tad too busy with non-audio stuff. Great pic's and information.