The Brownie Camera analogy

Posted by FSonicSmith (A) on February 2, 2016 at 05:09:07

Forgive me if I have shared this here before (I seem to recall I have). From time to time when I see discussions of trading one turntable for another I am reminded that 98% of ultimate performance once you reach a certain level of table is in the set-up. I venture to say from my own experience with about eight tables in the last ten years that very few of us have our talbes set up optimally. It is truly a shame. In the tenth grade i took a photography class offered at my high school as an alternative to shop. Ironically, it was a shop teacher who taught the class-a great guy named R.D. Reynolds who moonlighted as a wedding photographer. The first day of class, we all assembled around a bunch of tables placed in a circle all proud of our parents' SLR cameras we borrowed and brought to class and RD sniggered and pulled out an old Brownie camera and said, "I promise each of you that I can take better photos with this Brownie than any of you can take with those fancy SLR's".
My advice to anyone who is not happy with their (say) $1,000 on up table is to find an expert on table set-up and have the do their stuff. Your $150 or so will likely pay huge dividends. It is no fluke that the few folks who really know how to set up a table correctly report that an inexpensive or outdated vintage cartridge provides incredible sound. It is all in the set-up.
I am quite self-aware that to many of you, this will be "yawn, everyone knows that" stuff. I am no expert by any means. In the past I tinkered and tinkered without success. By some fluke of serendipity, I now have my table dialed in. The difference between being close and being dialed in is dramatic.

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Topic - The Brownie Camera analogy - FSonicSmith 05:09:07 02/02/16 (10)

RE: The Brownie Camera analogy - Mark P 09:46:52 02/03/16 (1)

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RE: The Brownie Camera analogy - Grinnell 06:44:44 02/02/16 (0)

The Brownie Camera analogy

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