dougdeacon
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| Do you leave your platter spinning while switching My main rig uses a threaded clamp so it's not even an option. Even if it were I wouldn't do it. There's a $5K cartridge hanging there and its cantilever is well placed to get whacked. The miniscule wear and tear on motor and belt from startups cou... | |
| Upgrade for users of 1/2" mylar belt Hi Don,Thanks for reviving this thread from the depths of time... well, 2011. You must have tweaked your Scout quite a bit to use a belt like this... impressive.Like you, we've always used natural instrument recordings to test any system or compon... | |
| Headshell Hygiene and SME Standard Stupidity Hmmm... 5 of your 6 cartridges have their pins opposite to those on the headshell? Based on this admittedly small sample it seems there is indeed a standard... and SME failed to adhere to it. ;-) | |
| Headshell Hygiene and SME Standard Stupidity Agree with Nandric. Why not just restore the insulation layer on the exposed portion of your wires? A thin layer of nail polish or any non-conducting material should help. | |
| Unipivot tonearms less forgiving of Vinyl quality? Agree with Tobes. Because their contact radii are smaller, line contact and micro-ridge styli can trace groove modulations having shorter wavelengths than other stylus shapes. Conical/spherical styli are at the opposite end of the spectrum, with e... | |
| ok to break in phono preamp w/ non lp source? LOL, good one Marakanetz... except that many manufacturers will disclaim their warranty obligations to the extent damage was caused by owner abuse. Putting a line-level signal into a phono input might be deemed as such. It certainly would not acco... | |
| ZYX Omega or UNIverse? Syntax, you should talk to Mehran about ceilings becoming floors. Tell him I sent you, he'll tell you why. ;) | |
| ZYX Omega or UNIverse? I'd put the A90 ahead of those other cartridges too. As I posted back on 10/01/11, "...I'd at least consider putting it on a similar plane to the UNIverse." Any cartridge that comes close to a UNIverse will outplay lower range ZYX's (including the... | |
| Is tonearm bias a compromise, maybe a myth? Lew, I agree with the elaborations in your post. For clarity, the only point of my (admittedly over-simplified) analogy was to illustrate this fact:- skating forces act (first) upon the stylus- anti-skating devices act (first) upon the tonearmThis... | |
| Is tonearm bias a compromise, maybe a myth? "Pre-loaded" implies to me that there is a load on the cantilever independent of the stylus being played in the groove. Sorry. By "pre-loaded" I mean that A/S devices pressure the cantilever against the suspension as soon as the stylus locks into ... | |
| Lyra Kleos: tracking force/VTA/azimuth questions ...to go from mistracking to "singing" with tiny tweaks just doesn't sound right."I've no experience with the Kleos, 20X2 or Zephyr, but I assure you that with many cartridges the difference between mistracking and singing is indeed just a tweak o... | |
| Priscilla Ahn Sibilance Ehleybay, In addition to Mofimadness's suggestion, try increasing VTF by a SMALL amount (like .01g if you can, or the smallest adjustment you can make) and replaying the offending passage. Repeat and continue making a tiny VTF increase each time. ... | |
| Lyra Kleos: tracking force/VTA/azimuth questions Why not just make a weighing step with enough drop-down to put the stylus at record height when the scale & step are sitting on the platter? Let's you measure at the right height and, if you make it the right weight, it will put your scale nea... | |
| Is tonearm bias a compromise, maybe a myth? I was really surprised at how much more depth there was to the soundstage and greater subtle details. I was then gobsmacked by the discovery that I had forgotten to re-attach the bias weight thread! Applying Lateral Bias seems to compromise perfor... | |
| TriPlanar Tips Lew, I just indulged in some semi-OT chat myself, so no problem! ;-) Just wanted to halt an entirely OT snark-fest. Email me if you want to know more about my "tease". |