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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2021 10:49:41 GMT
Setting the bias to the same as the cartridge tracking weight is bollox anyway, i have no idea why people do that. So to me slightly high or low means nothing. I use lift & drop across the record in intervals, been known to use blank disk as a starting method . All trial & error, i would never rely on a dial setting just an approximation.
However some people just dont find it all important. This is actually one area that i do find mega important.
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Post by dsjr on Aug 11, 2021 13:02:20 GMT
Blank disc can be fine. Most makers can't make their bloody minds up anyway, as Rega, SME and Linn showed me over the years. Not sure it's *just* batch variation either...
Conical tips need less correction than elliptical types - how B&O got away with one setting for 1.5 - 2g conicals and 1 - 1.25g ellipticals when they made turntables. Fine line, FG and Shibata styli need loads more I found and for some reason, my 1.8g tracking MC30 Super, which sounds so much better in the 701 than it ever did in an LP12-Ittok of mid 80's vintage, needs the bias to be set to 3g on the 701 CD-4 scale and then some for some reason. It's an exception though.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2021 13:54:42 GMT
Another way ive done it is taken of the rubber from the cue so that the arm tube can slide across the cue as the force pulls or put some electrical tape over the rubber to create a shiny surface. Dropped the arm in chosen intervals compensate & see if it matches anyway near the bias setting on the arm usually off. this however only sorts out the drift before record contact.
You can never get it perfect cos the pulling force is always changing with the groove modulations as the music plays.
The best results i had was an heavily tracking cartridge with the bias disabled but i always worry about heavy tracking.
No word of a lie Dave that Jelco thing attached to the ROTEL is a dream come true for set up & use, But the geometry is so wrong to me. If i ever come across a mint 'SA50' i will do a straight swap for the 'R200' as is a 222mm Pivot to Pivot the same. You can tell proper 'SA50' they have a black adjustable mounting collar.
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Post by dsjr on Aug 11, 2021 16:32:04 GMT
Ok. I gave the opinion based on experience, but as I'm almost as obsessive on other things, I can't argue any more. Just received the KJ West One newsletter of new 'exciting' products. They have IBL now (Jerry's the only one I know who loves them), Sonus Faber seem to have backtracked and re-launched updated versions of twenty five year old models, some swanky hideously expensive looking Zanden valve amps and another huge Wilson confection and Mcintosh box You know, years ago I'd be foaming at the mouth keen to hear (and at one time sell) these lavish confections of eye-fi for the obscenely wealthy but today, it almost makes me feel sick, so over-indulgent it all seems in a world falling apart because of our greed! Apologies, just seriously pissed off right now.
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Post by Westie on Aug 11, 2021 20:11:43 GMT
Ok. I gave the opinion based on experience, but as I'm almost as obsessive on other things, I can't argue any more. Just received the KJ West One newsletter of new 'exciting' products. They have IBL now (Jerry's the only one I know who loves them), Sonus Faber seem to have backtracked and re-launched updated versions of twenty five year old models, some swanky hideously expensive looking Zanden valve amps and another huge Wilson confection and Mcintosh box You know, years ago I'd be foaming at the mouth keen to hear (and at one time sell) these lavish confections of eye-fi for the obscenely wealthy but today, it almost makes me feel sick, so over-indulgent it all seems in a world falling apart because of our greed! Apologies, just seriously pissed off right now. You never need apologise for being right. Hifi today is a bad joke.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2021 20:18:34 GMT
People also have different views & the way they believe things are to be done. No good taking advice on something that doesnt work for you its like someone saying you must buy this Hi-Fi cos i think it sounds great.
As for high end, its always made me sick.
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Post by Westie on Aug 11, 2021 20:24:43 GMT
People also have different views & the way they believe things are to be done. No good taking advice on something that doesnt work for you its like someone saying you must buy this Hi-Fi cos i think it sounds great. As for high end, its always made me sick. I always laugh at the many folk on forums who do exactly that. I find it a bit hard to grasp because I have no desire to see others replicate my choices and I can’t see why anyone would. What’s in it for them?
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