Hi Todd,
keep it up man! It will be one of the more interesting things to see how it all will end :-)
Axel
keep it up man! It will be one of the more interesting things to see how it all will end :-)
Axel
Killing sibilance distortion - VPI & Jubilee
Hi, So I had a chance to play with things a bit more last night. First of all, here is a link to the same song coming from a digital source: Digital Sound Clip With this, you can hear the hard "s" sounds as they are recorded, but there is none of that scratchy distortion that I get with my vinyl playback. This is the goal!!! I went ahead and switched to the VPI jig to setup the alignment. It's pretty tricky to get good, accurate setup pictures... but here's my best attempt: Overhang Notice that the cartridge is quite a bit further back in the headshell with the VPI jig. Zenith / Azimuth Looks pretty good to me... So after making these setup changes, I went ahead and listened to the vinyl track again... and there was unfortunately no change to the sibilance distortion. Here is a new recording of my vinyl playback setup now with the VPI jig: Analog still has sibilance So... given that I have changed alignments, and changed azimuth, yet the situation remains unchanged, is it fair to conclude that this is not setup related? |
Hi Todd, very good pictures! Very good set-up! (I hope others will concur). I guess you have to eliminate the cart as the source of the problem next i.e. put in another one, eish! Let ME say no more at this point. Axel PS: let me know sometime how to paste pics into to this 'post responses', I might have something interesting... |
I went to a local audio dealer in Cambridge, MA yesterday to try out the Krauss record. They are a Rega dealer, and I was kind of hoping they would have a P9 or a P7 setup, but all they had in working state was a P1 with an entry level Ortofon cartridge. We tried the record.... it was a huge mess! Actually, quite a bit worse than my setup. The dealer went through the standard questions, "Is this your only record that does this?" "groove damage?" "maybe that's the way it was recorded?," etc. It surprises me that the two dealers I've discussed this with are not more familliar with it. Being around different turntables all day long, I would expect them to be intimately familliar with sibilance, what causes it, and ways to fix it. I'm not sure what conclusions to draw, but assuming that the table was setup well, there was a clear difference in tracking ability between this setup and my setup. Which leads me to believe - maybe there is a table/arm/cartridge setup out there that can track this cleanly??? I hope so, and I want to find it! |
Brother, Goatwuss, >>> maybe there is a table/arm/cartridge setup out there that can track this cleanly??? I hope so, and I want to find it!<<< YES, YES, YES, talk to Doug! Then after a gap talk to Axel, I got it tracking with a V15 III xMR and it can't be much worse then CD (I guess) actually quite OK, but not 100% perfect., Doug's the man I say. Also in the meantime, try an MM with at least 22.5cu and a decent stylus/cantilever (Raul mentioned some, yes?) Good luck, A. PS: Just shows you were some dealers are these days --- pushing AV boxes, and clueless (to survive I guess) |