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RE: weight and string method for anti skate - help needed

Posted by flood2 (A) on October 21, 2016 at 02:37:29

In Reply to: RE: weight and string method for anti skate - help needed posted by neobop on October 19, 2016 at 07:52:39:

"..so I lifted the arm to find a long string of vinyl wrapped around the tip. Make your blood run cold?"

OMG! My worst fear! That was one of the things that concerned me regarding safety factors stylus life. The more extreme cuts may be superior to the simpler ellipticals and parabolics, but there does seem to be a price to pay that isn't purely financial.
With the cheap industrial grade ellipticals on say D6800EE styli etc, I only get about 350 hours or so before I can hear sibilance and evidence of distortion creeping in. At this point I ditch them. I was excited when I first discovered the AT440ML because back then, I had finally found a tip that was clearly technically superior to anything I had heard up to that point. The only problem was knowing when it was "done".

Your anecdote certainly highlights how carefully such extreme profiles need to be treated and how clean the records need to be.

Thanks again for the insight!


Regards Anthony

"Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty.." Keats

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