Markus, I've had a Virtuoso Wood on my VPI and felt it hadnt reached its full potential until using the Mint Tractor for dial-in as well. I pretty much up to now have had to use MM carts (or high-power MC) due to the low gain in my preamp's phono section (modified CJ PV-5), and did not want to insert a step-up tranformer into the chain.Have been very happy with the Clearaudio(after having had a Alchemist, Blue Point Special 1 and 2, Denon DL-103 carts). So Markpao, invest in a Mint!--Mrmitch
VPI tone arm set up
Wanting to get back into analog, I just completed all my purchases (here on Audiogon) and am ready to start putting everything together. I have a VPI Aries 1 turntable, a VPI JMW 9 Sig. tonearm and a Shelter 501 mk11 cartridge I have mounted to a Cartridge Man Isolator. My question is- I understand the distance between the spindle and tone arm pivot is to be 223mm. Are they talking about center of turntable spindle to center of tonearm pivot? Also, I purchsed a VPI tonearm jig and noticed it only has 1 null point (inner, closest to turntable spindle) where as other jigs I've seen have 2 null points. Will this align correctly?