Lew,
I didn't adjust by ear for every LP. After setting up a cart, I would listen to a few 200g, 180g and standard pressings and come up with a good baseline VTA for each type. I'd adjust to one of those 3 settings whenever putting on an album, which would only take a second or two because I always had tonearms with a repeatable marking scale, as is the case with my current Audiomods with micrometer. If something sounded off I adjusted on-the-fly by ear, but this would probably be less than 5% of the time.
Now I usually leave the setting untouched at compromise midpoint. I'll lower it for some paper thin pressings. Cheers,
Spencer
I didn't adjust by ear for every LP. After setting up a cart, I would listen to a few 200g, 180g and standard pressings and come up with a good baseline VTA for each type. I'd adjust to one of those 3 settings whenever putting on an album, which would only take a second or two because I always had tonearms with a repeatable marking scale, as is the case with my current Audiomods with micrometer. If something sounded off I adjusted on-the-fly by ear, but this would probably be less than 5% of the time.
Now I usually leave the setting untouched at compromise midpoint. I'll lower it for some paper thin pressings. Cheers,
Spencer