dougdeacon
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| Woofers getting workout, but no bass Agree with Vandermeulen and others. Don't change your table, tonearm or cartridge. There's almost no chance that would reduce woofer pumping. I find Kevin's suggestion regarding damping fluid rather odd. Perhaps it would help on one of his tonearm... | |
| TriPlanar Tips Many have tried it, including me. No one I've met in five years likes it. In my case the result with Shelter 901, several ZYX's and a few MM's was always the same: dullsville. Transients that should explode off the record like a Leroy Neiman just ... | |
| Anti skate and tonearm damping query Axel,Try your experiment using a pivoting arm having zero offset angle (like a transcription arm). Provided the cantilever is aimed correctly (i.e., directly at the pivot point of the tonearm), skating force will be zero. This will be true regardl... | |
| Anti skate and tonearm damping query Dertonearm,I do not understand why you assert that skating force is "null at any zero error point". If you're saying that skating force is null at points of zero tracking angle error (e.g., at the Baerwald or Loefgren points), that is simply untru... | |
| Killing sibilance distortion - VPI & Jubilee Jonathon,Thanks for the clarifications and interior details. Very helpful in understanding why it's so difficult to tame problems like the OP's sibilance distortions. The Olympos, Titan and Helikon don't have this problem (on any arm I've heard th... | |
| Anti skate and tonearm damping query Agree with all the above. With regard to your question, on most unipivots that offer fluid damping in the bearing well, the fluid must actually touch the upper (movable) portion of the bearing to have much audible effect. Just damping the well isn... | |
| Killing sibilance distortion - VPI & Jubilee I doubt that a tonearm's tracking ability has much effect on the distortion levels of sibilants.Much more important is the way a particular tonearm/cartridge COMBINATION handles stray mechanical energies. (This is what Raul and others mean when th... | |
| SUT solution for multiple tonearm turntable If you care about optimum performance then SUT/cartridge matching is critical. Using a single SUT with different LOMC's is a serious compromise unless you change resistors every time. It's certainly do-able, I used to do it, but it's inconvenient ... | |
| crackles & pops Cerrot,Good news: you found an adjustment that helped. :-)Bad news: if raising VTF reduced clicks and pops they may have been due to mistracking, in which case you may have been damaging your LP's.Out of curiosity, why were you playing with VTF be... | |
| record cleaning findings/puzzle I didn't say alchohol would produce a cleaner record. I said it wouldn't leave a sonic signature. I use an alchohol step in my regimen for only one reason: to de-nature any enzymes left behind by my first cleaning step, which involves a soak in an... | |
| record cleaning findings/puzzle Excellent experiment. Thanks for the interesting results and questions.I assume there is a sonic print to my solution, is achohol typically bright/harsh sounding?There may be a sonic residue from either of your methods, but it won't be from the al... | |
| Bent Cant, Can't get azimuth right. Does it matter Excellent primer from Dertonarm regarding adjusting VTF. Exactly how I do it. Reduce VTF in TINY increments until bass/dynamics suffer, then bump it back up a TINIER amount, but not so far that you lose HF extension, microdynamics, speed or "air".... | |
| How much difference does a phono stage make? Agree with all the above. I've owned $150 cartridges and $5,000 cartridges. I also own an $1,800 preamp and a $12,000 one. Like Syntax, if I had to pair the lesser of one with the greater of the other - and could only keep one combo - I'd keep the... | |
| Killing sibilance distortion - VPI & Jubilee Search for stylus types on www.cartridgedb.com. There are many cartridges to choose from. You probably appreciate this already, but clearly there's no such thing as a "hot" stylus, at least if that's meant to imply "too hot". That's a logical impo... | |
| How Does the Soundsmith Pentatonia,Good report. You are one of only a handful of people I've "met" who's actually heard any model ZYX with the gold coils, and I entirely agree with you. I actually think you were a bit too polite (just like that cartridge!). The gold coil... |