Vinyl foibles

@kennyc 

I understand the wife factor. In the case of the XP-25 it was she who wanted me to get rid of my tubed gear, so I had prior approval. I went to TMR and found the Pass Labs phonostage. I had an XP-25.Pass Labs preamp of the same vintage, and neither of them seem to have been much improved upon by the Pass Labs XP-32 over my XP-30 or the Pass Labs XP-27 over my Pass Labs X-25. 

@mylogic 

I begin with the tone arm parallel to the record, but lift a bit for extra treble. I cannot drop the arm beyond parallel because my tonearm is parallel to the record at the lowest setting.

@faustuss 

Thanks for the information. That makes it a bit clearer. In the end, though, I just go by my ear. Although, I can't hear things right away. It can take me months. I'm pretty dialed-in now to the changes made by impedance and capacitance. I know capacitance is not supposed to make a difference with my MC cartridge, but it does. The general concensus is to set capacitance to 100 with a moving coil cartridge, but to my ear 200 sounds better. 320 is too zipped up. Too weighty or however one might put it.

There is a “general consensus” with respect to proper capacitance for an MC cartridge? Where?

@lewm 

The general consensus is everywhere I've looked. I haven't read any sources that suggests an audiophile (who else would bother?) with a MC cartridge should worry about the capacitance setting. I guess I might have said, according to my research, there is a general consensus. My ARC PH-7 had it set at 200 and the user could not change it. 

I'll say..... do you have a pet at home.  Pet dander gets picked up by static and moved around..

We are again on the subject of per hates and pet loves, plus children and pet free homes. Woof!

And for most cases on here….

Old aged crumblies.