Up grade to a new turntable
@tomwh I guess sometime a turntable designer will implement VTA on the fly adjusted by an electric motor to raise and lower the arm pillar and a remote to operate it. Then you can stay in your seat and tune it by ear. On my Simon Yorke Aeroarm the pillar is raised by a knurled wheel acting on a rack and Simon could easily engineer a motorised adaptation. But he would not do it as he enjoys the ritual of getting up and down from the seat and wants his customers to get the same buzz. |
Hello, When I adjusted the VTA on the VPI Prime it was really a 1/4 turn at a time. I just kept track of what I did as far as moving the VTA from zero. Besides, that was the fun part of setting it up. The hard part was setting up the VTF and azimuth just using the counterweight on the unipivot arm. I wanted to leave the side weights alone since they didn’t seem to have a locking mechanism. I was worried over time they could be bumped or vibrate out of adjustment. I am very picky when I do things with micro adjustments. After I adjusted the VTA for typical thickness of vinyl I grabbed a 180 gram record and marked the spot for that. This way you can literally adjust the VTA very quickly by the thickness of the album with the markings on the VTA dial. Just a note you do have to loosen the two VTA arm set screws by hand before you adjust. When you listen to an album dialed in with your system and your ears it is as close to audio Heaven as you can get. |
hshifi ... After I adjusted the VTA for typical thickness of vinyl I grabbed a 180 gram record and marked the spot for that. This way you can literally adjust the VTA very quickly by the thickness of the album with the markings on the VTA dial ...After changing VTA, do you also adjust overhang? One affects the other, and that is the limitation of VTA on-the-fly, imo. |
