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| Phonostage: Wavac vs Doshi vs Tron Raul visited my home several years ago with his Essential 3150. We A/B'd with my Doshi Alaap (the two chassis version, not the four chassis version). There were no Doshi version numbers then, but it would be a 1.x (upgraded by Nick as far as a ver... | |
| Audio Additives vs Acoustic Sounds Digital Scale IMO what is important here is the repeatability of the scale, not its ultimate accuracy. Since one will set the VTF by ear and having the ability to make small, repeatable changes is what matters.Agree! The tip above about using a load cell near t... | |
| Audio Additives vs Acoustic Sounds Digital Scale Bill, similar to Actusreus, I often suggest cutting up some credit cards and glueing the pieces together. It's bound to save you some money. ;-)Seriously, mine is made of a 1" wide length of copper strip. I folded it over several times to center m... | |
| Audio Additives vs Acoustic Sounds Digital Scale Stringreen, , I agree with you with one exception (and provided that one's Shure balance is made from non-magnetic material... some aren't).The exception is anyone who swaps out cartridges frequently. They may benefit from a scale that provides pr... | |
| Audio Additives vs Acoustic Sounds Digital Scale Whether this magnetic attraction needs to be tared out depends on which part of the scale the cartridge is attracted to: - if the attraction is to the weighing surface, which sits above the load cell, then it should not be tared out;- if the attra... | |
| Grado Stylus Upgrade There are also many MM cartridges that will better the performance of a Grado Black. Many also have more advanced stylus profiles. The Black's stylus has the subtlety of a brick, I've seen knitting needles with finer points. ;-)Check out Raul's en... | |
| setting azimuth Yes. ;-) What's important is that you know how big the sound source *should* appear to your ears. A solo violin or clarinet is good, unless it's multi-miked or miked so close (think Heifetz) that it's unavoidably larger than life. A solo mezzo or ... | |
| Airplane trip with turntable... Ebm, which private jet comes with a preamp? I want one! | |
| VPI Classic 3 + 3D Tonearm SRA Adjustment issue Isaacrivera, Good job deciding to fine tune your own setup. It's the only way to optimize the performance of any rig. Here's a thought. Bear with me, since you probably think you've covered this. If VTF is too high it will compress the cantilever ... | |
| A Soundsmith Denon dl103 retip question - can microscopic particles of dirt in the groove become more audible making older albums sound worse?As a rule, finer profile styli are quieter in the groove than larger, coarser styli. - will a stiffer stylus make skipping due to scratches more ... | |
| setting azimuth The VTF (Volubility Tendency Factor) might want tweaking... downward. | |
| setting azimuth P.S. As Rodman99999 stated, azimuth also affects timbre. Signals that come from one source (speaker) only will be phase coherent (assuming decent speakers). If the signal bleeds into the other channel due to crosstalk from incorrect azimuth, the s... | |
| setting azimuth I'm not sure I have such a fine tuned ear to get it dialed in...Few people do, until they understand what to listen for. It's not like anyone's born knowing what accurate stylus azimuth sounds like. ;-)It's actually not a matter of tuning our ears... | |
| setting azimuth You'd need a notch filter. Otherwise, background groove noise will swamp the test tone and make the readings highly unreliable. However, IME doing it this way is a waste of time. I rough in azimuth by eye (make the stylus riding in a the groove ap... | |
| VTF Question for dummies As I and many others have posted on this and other forums repeatedly for 10+ years, the HFN&RR test LP is worse than useless for setting A/S. Its design concept is flawed and the directions that come with it are misleading. Virtually every new... |