VTA and HTA overhang

If your read Fremers article a few months back in Stereophile he emphasizes that the Rake Angle is more crucial to the playback of lps. I recently had mine adjusted and I will attest that Fremer is correct. I attended the Music Matters gathering at Audio Alternative in Fort Collins he refers to in this months Analog Corner. And he touched on this subject that night as well. It makes perfect sense to me that we strive to approach the groove with our stylus at the same angle as it was cut or scribed when the orginal stamper was made. So I would suggest, and this is only intended as food for thought, that you look into that setting as your reference point and adjust from there. If you are in Colorado or nearby give Rick at Audio Alternative.com a call and make an appointment. He has mine TT and Cart working at peak performance.

Peterayer as it appears, I tried to edit my secon post to which you refer, and it vanished! But what I wanted to add is that I had omitted from my thoughts that you are working witha 12" arm whereas mine is a 9" arm. Those changes would be more dramatic in the geometric sense than I was thinking. I appreciate your response, although it may not make sense to anyone that hadn't read what I had said before as it is gone now. Maybe someone who has actually made these change and adjustments in compensation for each album thickness can enlighten us to their personal
experience. It will be interesting to read and learn although I for one will probably make some minor adjustments to my arm now that the SRA has been set to bring it to the sound I like and settle on it as a happy medium. But my arm is a Ekos and it isn't as accomadating for frequent adjustment. Someday if Graham ever does develop a proper spring for the LP12 to support at Phantom properly, I will look into that, budget permitting. So maybe it was a good thing my second post vanished as I was in error. But thank you for your reply and the explaination. By the way you didn't mention what arm you are using, just to satisfy curiousity at this point.

One thought I have that has crossed my mind a few times in the past when thinking about LP's varying thicknesses. Why hasn't someone come up with either a shim or different thicknesses of mats. Then one could place a thicker shim or mat on the platter for standard pressings and revert back to the standard mat for the 220 gram recordings and have one of each for 120,140,180 gram etc.
I realize there may be different sonic signatures for each mat or shim, but would it be that noticable if they are all the same material. I am curious from a mechanical point of view that over time the constant changing of the tonearm in such a small incremented area of the adjuster, what wear will eventually reveal itself. Just a though and love to hear the shortcomings of this idea.

Tom
Thanks, I didn't realize the "donut" excisted. And i gatehr from what you are stating that you have found it to have no effect on sonics? I wonder how it would perfom on a suspended table like my LP12. I guess I should research this as an option.