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In Reply to: RE: causes of DARK sounding system? posted by bullethead on January 20, 2015 at 14:17:01
Hi ,
In my experience I had this problem for quite sometime when I move to our new home. In my new listening room my system( VPI TNT6, Kuzma Stogi Ref , Koetsu Rosewood w/ TOL retippping frm Soundsmith, ARC SP11 MK2 , ARC Classic 150 mono blocks , Duntech C5000 Princess) the sound was so dark & lifeless compared to the sound in my old home. What I did was replaced the TNT 6's platter to the Classic platter , replaced the Stogi Ref w/ the Kuzma Stogi Ref 313 VTA and replaced the Koetsu w/ the Benz Micro Gullwing SLR then w/ a help of my friend using a USB microscope & Michael Fremer's programm for setting the VTA to 92 degrees I'm now very happy w/ the sound of my system.
It's really room and component interaction that will make your system bright or dark in my humble opinion.
Hope this helps,
Mondial
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The amazing thing about this hobby is that , 1. we get used to and compensate for the deficiencies in our systems and 2. almost ANY change that requires significant expense or time, does end up making the system better because we WANT to make the system sound better (see number 1)....until 3) we get used to (or get irritated by) the new things the system is doing, and then 4) find some other problem we want to fix.
Given your conclusion that the component and room interaction is the most important thing, I'm amazed you had such dramatic results from tweaking the turntable/cartidge.
Of course, the source is ultimately the most important...give me a great recording over a boombox, any day, over a poor recording on a $100,000 system.
I think the dreams and hallucinations you both seem susceptible to and hope others experience is the religious / new age term, Wish Fulfillment.
Well, that's what my imaginary friend said.
Where were you when I needed you on the breakin thread?
Too much is never enough
...nt :)
Hi Tom,
I myself am amazed by the dramatic turnaround when the front end was upgraded and tweaked .Another eye opening was when the VTA was set at 92 degrees and the appropriate azimuth adjustment performed using a Fogzmeter and the acoustic sound test record. After this adjustment I have lost my appetite in upgrading my electronics and would rather spend money buying LP's.
mondial
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