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| Mint Protractor for the Classic Toneram 10.5i-SE Suteetat,Would it be possible for you to compare the position of the stylus on the VPI grid with the alignment using the Mint? If your cartridge was aligned with the Mint, all you have to do is position the VPI jig and observe where the stylus lan... | |
| Mint Protractor for the Classic Toneram 10.5i-SE Captain_winters,Thanks for the link to the alignment calculator; it's a great tool! Perhaps it wasn't very clear, but I already have a Mint protractor for the Classic tonearm. I got it a few years ago, but don't have the emails I exchanged with Yi... | |
| Mint Protractor for the Classic Toneram 10.5i-SE Brf (and Captain_winters),Thanks for your responses. A couple of things. VPI is notorious for being all over the place with their specs. Why do you assume that the info Mike gave you is correct? Get a ruler and measure the S2P distance on your Cla... | |
| VPI Classic motor question Captain_winters,Your method makes sense to me. Mike's response does not. Do you understand it? It sounds like he suggests pulling the shaft all the way up. "Very little vertical motion" would simply depend on whether you pulled the shaft all the w... | |
| Mint Protractor for the Classic Toneram 10.5i-SE Brf,Those numbers are definitely incorrect. I measured the S2P distance and it's precisely 262 mm. This is what VPI used to have posted on their website a few years ago before they took it down. It is definitely not 258 mm, unless S2P is not the d... | |
| Parallel? How do you set the VTA? Jperry,Thanks! That's what I thought it was. Doug,I'm working on it...:) Good advice, as always. | |
| Parallel? How do you set the VTA? Manitunc, Was it you who posted a link to a very small bubble level a while ago in a different post? The one Jmcgrogan linked to is way too heavy at over 6 grams. Doug,This conversation reminds me of the discussion we had a while ago about setting... | |
| Parallel? How do you set the VTA? Brf,The headshell is parallel to the armwand on the Classic tonearm, which is not tapered. I found the headshell to be too small to accurately determine whether it's parallel to the record surface. Plus, it has two mounting screws sticking out, wh... | |
| Parallel? How do you set the VTA? I agree with Stringreen. The eyeball method can be quite misleading and unreliable, even if the tonearm is not tapered like the Classic wand. What prompted this post was the discovery that as I kept changing the VTA, the index card seemed to show ... | |
| VPI Classic motor question Thanks Macster. I appreciate your response. | |
| VPI Classic motor question That's good info, Andy. Thank you. Yes, I do recall our exchange regarding the lubrication of the Classic motor. I advised not to disassemble the pulley and to use a syringe to put the oil in the space between the pulley and the brass plate. Havin... | |
| To ring or not to ring? Rockyboy,In my collection virtually every other record, both new and used, displays some warp. A perfectly flat record is in my experience hard to find. My Delos has always handled the warps like a champ, but why subject your cartridge to this ext... | |
| When a Reviewer "likes" something I agree with Manitunc. I will also add that there are certainly bad reviews quite regularly, at least in Stereophile. A while ago Fremer reviewed a Boulder amp, and he trashed it sending the company's reps into a frenzy over the review. There was ... | |
| Stevie Ray Vaughan Marty,The thing is Gary is very widely known and popular in the rest of the world. It is only in the US that he, for some crazy reason, has never been fully appreciated. His omission from the RS 100 greatest guitarists list is as absurd as it is a... | |
| Stevie Ray Vaughan As deserved as praise and admiration for SRV is, it has always been puzzling to me that people in the US almost completely ignore Gary Moore whose playing, to me, was a few notches above SRV's, especially in the pain Gary was able to convey and th... |