Forget about specs. Many of these gauges are 2-3 tenths off. Get that calibrated set of weights for $6. Trust but verify.
VTF gauge
Trying to find a VTF gauge that had the measuring pad at the height of the album. Measuring VTF at the exact height of the album is critical. I have looked at numerous scales on line and none of them clearly states the height of the measuring pad. Can anyone recommend a scale that puts the measuring pad at the height of the album?
Thanks
Steve
Thanks
Steve
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I tried those Chinese digital gauges before, a few of them, they were OK, but they did not have that lower platform on the level of vinyl record which is a nice bonus. Ortofon DS-3 was more problematic than my Ortofon DS-1. I swear the cheaper DS-1 is just great! More expensive DS-3 that i bought once was very strange, i returned it because the weight was displayed incorrectly. Probably it was defective sample. DS-3 sucked energy from the batteries quickly and i could not deal with it after i swapped batteries many times. DS-1 has different batteries (just 2) and i think it’s a better gauge (at least for me). |
Dear chkaster, I don't know why but in former East Europe Aristoteles with his strange methodology of ''essential'' and ''accidental'' properties of things is still assumed to be true. Despite Galileo in physics and Frege in logic. This may explain your opinion about ''essential'' parts in MC carts like stylus shape and cantilevers while other parts are considered to be ''accidental''. You may, according to this philosophy, think that the only risk in our hobby is of financial kind. That is when we buy things which we can't afford. As the debt crisis learned this is an real danger. But as you can see from my response to your P&R for Ortofon DS 1, which btw is more expensive than DS 3, there is also ''life danger'' involved. This my dear brother is certainly not ''accidental '' issue. The American philosopher Quine invented following joke about those ''éssential'' properties by describing humans as ''featherless biped ''. |
If Chak says so, DS1 must be superior to DS3. 1.6g measured by the DS1 must sound better than 1.6g measured by my DS3. Mea culpa. Mijo, most of the better digital scales come with one or more test weights included. I’ve never seen an error greater than .01g, which is within the expected error of the test weight itself. |
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