A VTA/SRA self-appointed "expert" once listened as I played around with the VTA adjuster on my new tonearm. He was most careful to have the arm moved up and down two or three times before he finally announced where the sweet spot was. "Anyone can hear the effect," he proclaimed, but in fact I couldn't hear any difference whatsoever. A few hours after he left I found that the adjustment collar was not in fact threaded to the arm pillar, and that my "adjustments" had not altered arm height by even a mm.
Take what you will from this anecdote. I haven't bothered to try and enlighten the expert, and I've gently parried his offers to recheck the setting since then.
Take what you will from this anecdote. I haven't bothered to try and enlighten the expert, and I've gently parried his offers to recheck the setting since then.